Candidate Acquisition
The secret no-one EVER told you!
Resume Rules
What a recruiter looks for in a resume
Two-Way Video Interview
Ten ways to survive it
Contract Employees
Giving contract work a second look
Candidate Acquisition
The secret no-one EVER told you!
Resume Rules
What a recruiter looks for in a resume
Two-Way Video Interview
Ten ways to survive it
Contract Employees
Giving contract work a second look
Why do so many recruiters make wrong assumptions with regards to prospective candidates when they use LinkedIn? We all know what happens when you make assumptions, yet every single day, recruiters are making some huge ones directly regarding their target audience – candidates – on the world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn. And, if you are currently saying to yourself, ‘this doesn’t apply to me’, think again – it applies to all of us who use LinkedIn because that is the way LinkedIn have got us all using it!
For as long as I remember (and in recruitment, that is a very, very long time) getting good candidates has always been about getting their attention.
Not much. I’m sorry to be so harsh, but it’s true. Recruiters don’t really spend much time looking through your resume.Instead of focusing on every little word, focus more on the layout. The information should be very cleanly presented, that should make it very scanable.
How to survive the two-way video interview! You get a call from your recruiter and you have landed a job interview. You are nervous, pleased, anxious, and all the other emotions usually associated with the prospect of potentially getting a new job. You are just about to ask all the details, when your recruiter drops the bombshell.
When it comes to full-time employment, "contract" can be somewhat of a four-letter word. A negative connotation often follows the inclusion of a contract exception on a job posting, which can make it less enticing to the right candidates. But, contract employment opportunities have come a long way, especially in an increasingly flexible workforce. While employers may still have to sweeten the deal, contract employees can enjoy specific benefits if willing to sign on for something other than a traditional full-time position.
You've just completed a job interview and you walk out of the office thinking, "Nailed it!" So, what happens next when you're working with a recruiter?
Panel interviews are a good way of screening job seekers and finding great talent. It's no wonder then that they're becoming increasingly popular among companies competing in a healthy jobs market to land themselves the next shining star.
In the assessments space, one of the biggest minefields is the question of adverse impact and bias. Ultimately this stems from the understandably foremost concerns around legal defensibility. Being cognizant of potential candidate backlash in the face of litigious employee pools - it is a delicate balance of injecting objectivity into recruitment processes versus maintaining privacy requirements and searching for that ever elusive truly objectively accurate measure of whom a person truly is
A few days ago Astronaut Barry Willmore, and Cosmonauts Elena Serova, and Alexander Samokutyaev were blasted skyward in their Soyuz capsule, off to stay for six months on the International Space Station. A small team of ultra-competitive high achievers, crammed into a tight space, cut off from the real world and normal communications for days on end… a bit like recruitment?