How To Make Your Recruitment Campaign Stand Out In 2020
In almost every industry, businesses are shoulder to shoulder in their efforts to impress skilled candidates. Recruitment has responded by becoming more sophisticated, competency-based and targeted. As a result, to net enough interest from ideal employees, you’ll need to post ads on every job board related to your industry – with each individual role description […]
How to prepare for an interview, when you’re the interviewer
Here’s a controversial statement: Interviews are scarier for interviewers than interviewees. Not only do you have the responsibility of structuring the interview, knowing exactly what you want and bringing the best out of a candidate, you have some pretty tough decisions to make at the end of it. Life-changing decisions, in fact. But, before you […]
The 5 Most Commonly Asked Interview Questions… And How To Answer Them.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could read the mind of your interviewer? Until we learn how to do that, being prepared with some of the most commonly asked questions can really set you up for a killer interview. Whilst we don’t recommend a ‘canned’ response to questioning, knowing what could be asked and what […]
The 5 Things You Should Never Do In An Interview.
When an interview goes badly you just know it. From cringey to awkward to downright hostile we’ve all been locked in a room before that we just can’t wait to escape from. Hopefully you’ve never been in a situation as bad as some of these though. Take comfort in the fact that there is always […]
Job Candidates Beware – Is Your Social Media Profile Holding Back Your Career?
Several recent surveys conducted by CareerBuilder.com have brought to light the severity of this problem for candidates who, perhaps, are unaware of how far reaching potential employers’ checks on the suitability of potential employees now are. The rise of this “Social Media snooping” has it’s roots in a few different areas including employers becoming more […]
Army Recruitment Propaganda through the ages
19th Century And a crown to drink his majesty’s health Date Created/Published: circa 1800 Summary: Ten Guineas Bounty and a crown to drink his Majesty’s Health. Wanted to complete a company in His Majesty’s Fourth or King’s Own Regiment of Infantry…… [Image src] To Arms! To Arms Date Created/Published: 1862 Summary: Southern Army recruitment poster; Floyd County, Virginia; […]
A Level results 2013 – the stats you need to know
As the day draws to a close and people begin to wind down for the evening, a large population of 18 year olds around the country will just be heading out to celebrate or in some cases to drown their sorrows. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll be well aware that today was A-level […]
Offered a job but still have interviews arranged with other employers?
What should you do if you are offered a job but still have interviews arranged with other employers? So, you’ve been offered the job! You’re thrilled but you have that niggling doubt in the back of your mind that one of the jobs you have an interview for might be better money or better prospects. […]
The Most obscure University Degrees…
In order to attain a successful job/career, we are encouraged in school and college to go on to extended education once we reach the end of the compulsory learning cycle. Most of us assume we have to obtain excellent results and outstanding grades such as A***** to even be acknowledged by any university! However, it’s […]
