Temping vs benefits: Is it such a tough choice?
I’ve recently moved into the exciting world of providing Temps after a few years’ break & wow – has it changed. Not only because the Agency Workers Regulations that were introduced in October 2011 gives agency workers (temps) entitlement to the same basic employment & working conditions as if they’d been recruited directly. It’s also [...]
Been fed the ‘New Year-New Job’ line? Don’t buy it!
The above must be the most over-used Recruiting / Agency line in the world. Year in & year out it gets trotted out – but no new colour palette or font will make it sound anything else but trite. It means absolutely zero. So you went back to work? And on day ONE you’ve already [...]
Candidates & their ‘Curriculum Vitea’s’
I read yesterday that three quarters of candidates CV’s get rejected if they contain mistakes. And my honest response is….really – only that few? This blog is borne out of hearing of this statistic on the same day as receiving a CV that seemed to go against everything that’s happening ‘out there’ in the [...]
In praise of the choosy candidate
So I’m in recruiting. Its going well thank you very much…but it just feels about time I put right some perceptions that I’m coming across day in & day out. So everyone thinks its DREADFUL out there & nobody’s getting anywhere & no-one’s getting opportunities & there ‘are NO jobs.’ STOP….because that’s not right….. [...]
Recruiting with (& without) an Accent!
If we start by saying I’m a Geordie. I talk like a Geordie & can’t say ‘phone’ in that posh way that everyone else does. I’m not quite as Geordie as Cheryl – but I’ve an indentifiable Geordieness – & it’s innately in my personality & not just my in voice
My PERSONAL TOP 10 CV Turn offs
Wow! Its really grim out there & right or wrong, jobseekers need to be heeding advice given. Whether they take it or not. I’m still amazed at the pretty simple things candidates do on CV’s that could turn potential employers off & here’s my little PERSONAL list of avoid!
Tins of Beans blog
In my first ever interview for my first recruitment consultant job, back in the day when recruiting was funky, fresh & new & no-body used LinkedIn & an iphone would’ve seen you tied to a Ducking Stool, I was told that ‘selling candidates isn’t like selling tins of beans….’ Obvious you say…..but in the span of a 19 year long career in recruiting – this sentence resonated with me time & time again.
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