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recruitment

A collection of 70 issues

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,

Your Passionate Motivated Excellent Best

A piece of lockdown pr by way of an online recruit shop. Apparently surveying 562 UK hiring managers. It seems there’s a list of words that switches them off. Half or more questioned shudder to see these eight appear on candidate documentation; > best – motivated – dedicated – proven – reliable – passionate – excellent

Data Scammer Sleuth Candidate Checks

[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8246315/Sleuth-turned-tables-lonely-hearts-scammers.html] A later-in-life online dater sadly realised the hard way that not every profile you engage with is genuine. Yet she used this pain to help others avoid what she suffered. With impressive results [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8246315/Sleuth-turned-tables-lonely-hearts-scammers.

How Lucky A Seller Are You?

Harvard researchers now tell us [https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-athletes-way/201908/optimism-study-gives-optimists-more-reason-be-optimistic] that the optimist outlives the pessimist. Despite, no doubt, of when the latter try to convince that they rather display pragmatism or realism. Really… Hot on the heels too of a similar Yale [https://thriveglobal.com/

Your Biggest Weakness?

The “snidey” monopolistic Leftist media in Britain are presently knotting themselves into a swirling fit. The current ruling political party are electing their new helmsman. This is (sadly [https://www.republic.org.uk/]?) no Presidential democracy. So no mere citizen ever gets a vote for supreme leader. Imagine a US-style

7 Second CV & Your Career, Your Docs

Launch pr attracts all manner of lifestyle reposting [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6577923/James-Reed-reveals-write-perfect-CV.html] for this catchily entitled read; the 7-second cv by James Reed [https://www.reed.co.uk/james-reed/every-second-counts/]. The net loves lists. He has plenty. Because bullet points on your two-page max “marketing

3 Sales Recruiter Tips From Top Esquire Interviewer

I’ve ran a number of workshops over the recent past to add interview proficiency onto sales managers skillsets. The modern preference tends to be for a short series of ninety-minute to two-hour sessions, over the course of a few weeks or so. When starting I have asked the typical

Latest Pseudoscience Personality Profile Checklist

[http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180508-the-secrets-of-the-high-potential-personality] Banging on a firmly open door. I was delighted to feed on this morsel of sense this week. Myers-Briggs and their Type Indicator.Really. Every such test I’ve taken has been so shockingly misleading as to be slanderous. So it looks like