This post is sponsored by Biscuit Recruitment, a boutique recruitment agency in London specialising in placing PA, EA and office support staff. The saying goes that people leave managers, not jobs. When you have a bad manager it can make every second at work a nightmare. Whether your manager is ineffectual, unfriendly or just plain incompetent, we have…
The importance of employer branding has grown exponentially as the war for talent rages on, and candidates increasingly make “culture” a deciding factor in their employment decision. Is your company winning or losing the employment brand battle? If you see any of the following items going on at your company, you may be further behind…
Picture this scene. You’ve just been invited for an interview with a super hot startup. Eager for the chance to latch onto the next Google or Facebook, you spend the next two weeks gearing up for the interview of your life. You rehearse your life story until it comes off like a TED Talk. You practice behavioral questions so…
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9 Killer Tips for Video Interviews
Looking for a job? It’s high time to confess that the hiring process is far from what it looked like ten or even five years ago. To keep your eye on the ball and get that dream job, you should be ready for a video interview. Six out of ten hiring managers used video technologies…
Many businesses still operate on the misconception that their recruitment function is a subservient element of the HR function. I still speak to business leaders who simply want to be free from the hassle of recruitment. This type of resentment still exists as a result of the sales style approach to recruitment which has pestered business leaders with…
I remember my first day on the job clearly, like it was yesterday. I also recall how at the time everything seemed as clear as mud. In the beginning I had no idea what to really expect from a career in agency recruitment. I’d heard all the great things about the industry, from the great people to the perks of…
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6 Office Makeover Tips
The design and feel of your work space may take a back seat when it comes to your priorities in the office, but it is actually much more important than you may think. As soon as a potential client, customer or new employee walks into the office, judgements are being made about your business. From a new…
Employee advocacy is exactly as it sounds: it’s all about getting employees to be advocates for their own employers on social media. It runs on the ‘straight from the horse’s mouth’ principle, whereby employees share favourable content that paints their organisation in a really positive way. The point? To market a company by engaging its people in…
Recruiters are pretty social beings by nature. Good thing that, because being social is a big part of the job. Client meetings, candidate coffee dates and industry events; it really is just another day at (or out of) the office. Recruiters connect people with opportunities and to do this, they rely on their solid network which they build and fine-tune…