Two questions for both recruiters and candidates: How do you treat others? Do you treat them how you would like to be treated? Maybe it should be obvious that you don’t want to burn a bridge with a recruiter, or a recruiter with a candidate… Over these past 20 years, I’ve become curious about human behavior…
Agency recruitment is competitive and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd. How can you make yourself the ‘go-to’ in your market, when there are 20 other Toms, Dicks and Harries getting up close and personal with all your clients and candidates? Blogging. I mean, it’s not the be-all and end-all, but…
You’ve had it with your current career path. You’ve assessed your priorities and decided it’s time to make a change. You have an idea of what you’d like to do next with your career. Everything’s looking good until a little voice pipes up in your brain, “But what if I’m too old to change careers?”…
Facebook has come under criticism recently for not having a sufficiently diverse workforce. Some may ask what the problem is, given that the company appears to be going from strength to strength commercially. Yet, there is more to business success than short-term profits. A lack of diversity may cast an unwelcome spotlight on any organisation, which…
When I was a journalist, I organised my life by spinning plates. I quickly became a certified expert at successfully balancing twenty tasks at once, and soon found myself with two really exciting opportunities staring me in the face. One being to join the circus, the other to forge a career in recruitment marketing. After I missed the annual…
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I’m Tempted to Believe I’m Superwoman
Ever been to a circus and seen those jugglers, riding a bicycle, doing cartwheels and still managing to effectively throw and catch oranges or apples, or whatever? Most of the time, that feels like me. I can definitely relate in my own little way. My story Life so far has taught me that with drive,…
It’s difficult not to drown in the vast, fast-moving sea of content out there. We know that using social media is key for employer branding, but if you’re trying to sell your company as a great employer, and reach potential candidates natively, you’ve got to have a strategy in place that’ll get your messages noticed. I’ve…
As a new attorney, the process of obtaining your first job can be exhilarating when your hard work pays off and you receive a call for an interview; at the same time, the process can be intimidating when you consider the numerous other new attorneys also answering those calls. From the day you took the…
It is often called the “dark side” of recruitment; it tends to polarise recruiters, and to anyone outside of recruitment, it baffles and confuses people as to what we actually do. Rec to Rec aka R2R aka Rec2Rec (hereonin known as R2R) is a sector I have been part of from its early inception. It started to…