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recruitment

A collection of 77 issues

Will AI Ruin Sales As It Currently Wrecks Recruiting?

A Boxing Day linegraph from the Daily Mail. On their scale of zero to one hundred, over the past five years Google Trends shows the search term 'how to write a CV' hovering around the 40 mark. Yet since starting along the 10 level, the past 48 months has seen

Pace Blueprint

Not just one for cricket lovers. Although fast-bowling enthusiasts will doubtless lap this up. After stumbling in India and Pakistan, the English cricket Test setup has gone through a minor rebuild these past twelve months. All the more important given the next away Ashes is only a year away. With

AI Proof Pitching

There's a presently observed HR dichotomy. We're all about people. Empathy transcends. A culture most gleaming. Where you can be your best self. So we'll hire you by AI. S'pose we ought expect nothing less from our colleagues latterly vying to be the standout epitome of the Sales Prevention Department.

Tenderwang

I was recently reminded of experience a while back where a big corp's internal governance required for potential supplier events upon upcoming issuing of a tender. You may have been to the type of gathering. Typically at RFP/ITT (sometimes RFI too, but likely not RFQ) stage. All those who

Three Term Rule

To limit time in any one role to three years has long been the mantra of the greasy pole careerist. There's many a reason for this slant. For one, I'm reminded of the classic advice of revolutionary Hungarian football coach, Bela Guttman; "the third year is fatal". Meaning that after

26yo Tiktok-er Suggests Interview Close Clincher

"So based on the conversation we've just had, based on this interview, do you have concerns around my ability to perform this role? Or just any concerns about me as a candidate in general?" The TikTok post containing this job-seeking guidance garnered an impressive 3m views within a week of

Four Point Candidate Clip

Pretty much every sales operation I've spoken to on recruitment lately bemoans how tricky it is to get staff. In the Enterprise space, competition for new hires seems intense. It certainly feels like the balance is heavily in favour of the employee right now. I blogged on this late last

CV Wow Factor

Here's what Daniela Mamica, Aspire recruitment agency’s Executive Director of Media, Marketing and Technology, says makes the difference for a winning CV. They highlight outcomes in role descriptions. “For me, this is the wow factor on any CV. It separates good candidates from brilliant ones. CVs shouldn’t just

Fax, Dems & 4-Mins Sold

Much hullabalah in England as the requirement enabling fax machine comms is announced as dropped. Oh those heady days when the sales office fax of thirty years back would fire up its distinctive screech, and all the farmers would race to it shouting 'order!' I myself recall the affirmation

The Interview Trick Elon Used That You Should Not

Elon Musk apparently personally interviewed Tesla's first one thousand employees. From janitors to rocket scientists. A 2015 biography claimed to reveal the interview question which was his favourite. Less a question, more a riddle; > You're standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west,