‘To fail to plan is to plan to fail’, one of my favourite quotes and no where more true in the area of interviews. But what should you be preparing? Mind, body and heart! Prepare with your mind You need to do a lot of research and thinking before any interview. You need to engage…
You’ve spotted a brilliant-looking job online. Great location, great salary, interesting role. All aflutter, you upload your CV, hit send, and sit back, dreaming of the interview you know you’ll get (and ace), almost tasting that offer letter brimming with a massive salary hike. A week goes by. Two weeks. Three weeks. A month. You…
I’ve been a recruiter for fourteen years and entered the industry fairly fresh from graduation; first taking on a temp desk, then contingent perm recruitment and team leadership and for the last six years headhunting on a retained basis. During this time I’ve experienced a great deal of good and bad recruitment training provided by…
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5 Ways to Recruit on Instagram
Instagram is an iPhone (and now also Android) application which allows users to take pictures, add filters and then share these edited photographs to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more, all through one application. In April this year, it was bought by social media giant Facebook for £1billion, and boasts well over 50 million users, with…
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Who is Looking for YOU on Google?
Apart from you googling yourself, you’ll also find that recruiters, customers and even ex-girlfriends will use Google to check you out. Who is really looking for you on Google? Backgroundcheck.org gives some stats. Takeaways: 70% of internet users with a college degree have searched for their name 81% of millenniails look up their dates on either…
The cover letter is a critical document that makes a good difference in the job application procedure of the applicant. It presents you in a professional manner to the employer and lets the employer know that you are the most desired candidate for the job position for which you have put in your job application.…
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7 Tips to Do Well in a Video Interview
As modern technology is improving each day, more and more companies are using video conferencing interviews to carry out the initial selection process of prospective candidates. Video interviewing is similar to a face-to-face interview and it is an ideal way to find the right people to invite in for a face-to-face interview. Here are some…
Do you recruit with social media? Did you include YouTube in that equation? You probably should! Here are some stats from our friends at HireRabbit: YouTube is the 3rd most trafficked website in the world, trailing only Google and Facebook according to Alexa. YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine trailing only Google (which happens…
LinkedIn has over 3 million companies on its database – and these are a great source of information for recruiters and candidates, but the average company page on LinkedIn is a total mess. Here’s why and how it could be affecting you… I often tell my clients that they should consider their LinkedIn Company Page…