We’ve all been there, you spend hours preparing for an interview and set off to your appointment satisfied that there couldn’t possibly be a question that you haven’t mentally prepared a genius answer for. Then BANG, a bewildering, stress inducer of a bombshell is dropped on you and you’re left in a cold sweat as you decipher the…
It’s amazing how many parallels can be drawn between a job and a relationship; there are the faux pas on when and when not to follow up, the need to contain your enthusiasm and the importance of playing it ‘cool’. Post-interview stress can, at times, be maddening – just like the waiting game after a…
You have a LinkedIn profile, but no one is contacting you. What do you need to do to draw attention to your profile? The secret is in sharing status updates that appeal to your network and potential employers. LinkedIn reported that job seekers who updated their status weekly were 10 times more likely to be contacted by…
Last week over 180 in-house recruiters gathered for the Talent Leaders Connect event in London. Acting as a forerunner to the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), an organisation’s candidate experience (or lack of) was hotly debated among some of the recruitment industry’s leading professionals. The line-up included Global HRD and author Peter Wright; Forward Partners’ Matt Buckland, who recently…
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of…
This year has already been dubbed the ‘Year of the Candidate’, as growing economic confidence is shifting the power from the employer to the employee. After years of economic uncertainty which encouraged employees to stay in the same job and prompted employers to be cautious about making investments in new staff, the continued positive news is…
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Top Ways to Beat Procrastination
Are you a victim of excess procrastinating? After overwhelming amounts of festive turkey, heading back to work/school/college could prove a difficult challenge. Thanks to our pals at Essay Expert, you can beat those January back to work blues and your lack of focus. Stay on top of your to-do list! How do you stay focused? How often do…
Our friends at Dice recently presented the results of the Tech Candidate Sentiment Survey 2015 to help government officials get up to date with developing trends in recruiting. They surveyed 3,801 respondents, 68% of who were in a job, 50% actively manage their careers and no less than 90% engage with recruiters. Survey takeaways: Sourcing…
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6 Ways to Streamline Your Job Hunt
Job hunting is often described as a full-time job in itself; so it’s no surprise that it can sometimes become challenging and stressful – especially when you are not achieving the results you want. We often make changes to process and work-methods to become more efficient in our days jobs; so the same approach can…