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recruitment

A collection of 67 issues

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 –

Data Scammer Sleuth Candidate Checks

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. Whilst not every candidate we receive is from a criminal call centre, there are some that may

How Lucky A Seller Are You?

Harvard researchers now tell us 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 finding giving the more sunnier disposed of us a full seven

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?) no Presidential democracy. So no mere citizen ever gets a vote for supreme leader. Imagine a US-style Primary, but where

7 Second CV & Your Career, Your Docs

Launch pr attracts all manner of lifestyle reposting for this catchily entitled read; the 7-second cv by James Reed. The net loves lists. He has plenty. Because bullet points on your two-page max “marketing document” here is good. Scrap cliched buzzwords, so no to; goal-driven, strong work ethic,

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

Latest Pseudoscience Personality Profile Checklist

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 someone has tried to better the

Another Top Ten CV No-Nos & Your Sales Docs

This particular Horror Ten comes from London broadsheet The Telegraph. There’s the surface level job hunt point to make here. Audit your own resumé and remove any of these offenders if they exist. You could go long on what ought be displayed instead. Career ambition, career summary, your

This or That at The Circle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6CaZUOPvk So after blogging on This or That interview questions recently, I saw the 2017 movie adaptation rewrite of the 2013 novel The Circle. Of interest as I blogged on internal new product launch pointers from it after reading the book myself. The film

This or That?

Deceptively simple, yet fiendishly revealing. Also incredibly tricky to write. The ‘this or that’ rapid-fire quiz is a staple of the celebrity profile interview finale. Take a pair of seemingly opposing stops along a particular pop-culture line and shine the headlamp demanding one is chosen above the other.