You’ve got a new person joining the company – hooray! Securing new talent to any business is no mean feat; good candidates are often spoilt with choice and snapped up quickly. When your new hire walks through that door on day one, it’s no time to become complacent or rest on your laurels. Just because they have resigned and…
If you’ve experienced a candidate-driven market, you’ll know that it means great candidates can pick and choose between employers, which can be difficult for a recruiter to manage. For those of you who are familiar with this scenario, I’m sure you’ll be able to appreciate that it feels like it’s getting harder and harder to find good candidates,…
When it comes to transparent content marketing, Matt says believes “with the right technology, it’s possible to interrogate someone’s previous touch-points with your business and its digital properties, and fill in a lot of the gaps that marketers take for granted”. Now, you’re probably wondering who Matt is. Matt Hodkinson is CEO of Influence Agents, an inbound marketing…
Securing exclusive work from clients is the dream for any third party recruiter. As soon as you know the role is yours to fill, you can justify channeling extreme amounts of effort and giving the client the stellar service you’re capable of and they deserve. Unfortunately, locking down exclusive roles to work on is easier said than done.…
Why does there need to be any advice given to recruiters about seeking a new role? Surely recruiters themselves are perfectly capable of writing the best CVs, given they are judging them all day in their roles? Well, while this might be largely true, recruiters still need to stand out from the crowd in order to secure…
It’s that time of year when people reflect. They reflect on the year they’ve left behind, the positives and the negatives, and peer into the future. What does it hold for them? What do they want this year from their career? Smart business leaders would be making sure they capitalise on this contemplative period. Want…
January is the perfect time to give your professional life a boost and set career goals for the coming year. Here are 10 of the best career resolutions to make, along with a few actionable tips on how to achieve them: 1. Perform an annual career checkup Before you can set any career resolutions, the…
Writing your CV as a project manager can be a complex task. As somebody who balances so many tasks across multiple teams and locations, it can be a challenge to get all of your experience down into 2 sheets of A4. A good project manager’s CV should demonstrate the candidate’s ability to lead staff, mitigate…
You’re going about your day-to-day life when something triggers a feeling of dissatisfaction with your career. Maybe you pick up your alumni magazine and feel a pang of jealousy as you read about the brilliantly successful non-profit a classmate started that is making a big difference in the world. Or, despite your careful budgeting, you…