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recruitment

A collection of 74 issues

Has Your Pitch A Jobhunter's Compelling Narrative?

A holiday week flew by where I am at the moment. The broadsheets were keenly aware of this. With their slurry of articles displaying such clickbait titles as this one from London’s Telegraph; have you been working at the same company for too long [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Do You Sway Towards The Ideal Sales Job Candidate?

aka, Do You Give A First-Date Or Joe Friday Interview? One of them is good, the other, terrible… Want to know which one gives results a whopping six times better than the other? Well, according to a couple of pages I read in the pop-psych Sway [http://salespodder.com/sway-the-irresistible-pull-of-irrational-behaviour/

Fashion Design Coffee Pod Recycler Stitched Up By Edit

[https://www.instagram.com/officialrhysellis/?hl=en] Fancy a bespoke, handmade dress that’s graced the catwalk for just £10,000? One crafted from recycled coffee machine capsules? Then enterprising young Brummie design wunderkind Rhys Ellis [https://www.rhysellis.com] is yer man. His innovation came building upon a Milan

How Useful Is Oddball Question About Your Debut Album?

A finding so noteworthy CNN’s Richard Quest deemed it part of his 2016 year’s highlights wrap-up. Job site Glassdoor [https://www.glassdoor.com/press/glassdoor-releases-top-10-oddball-interview-questions-2016/] raked through their forums and gathered the current most eyebrow-raising, so-called oddball interview questions. These are proven catnip for anyone ever having been

When You Gonna Call Your Mummy?

I sat next to a table in a café recently where a Sales interview was underway. It was a chastening experience. Carbon emissions seemed central to their product. Whether that be in corporate credit trading or consumer greenery was beyond my earshot. What I did hear though was an example

10 Questions You Should Always Ask Your Next Sales Boss

From the juggernaut that is mailonline, a tip or ten this week on what to say to your interviewer to ensure the “money and respect you deserve” [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3654359/The-ten-questions-ask-accepting-new-job-ensure-money-respect-deserve.html] in your new job. I wasn’t especially enamoured with their list: > 1. Is

What Sales Can Take From Robot Recruitment

Is there any one-time jobseeker who hasn’t been the victim of pyschometric testing? No. Whatever the practitioners insist, are they really more effective than the Carry On dating agency from 1970 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Loving], Wedded Bliss, with their “computer matching” (which featured Sid Bliss

Are You Asking The Single Most Revealing Interview Question?

> What do you think of [… insert person’s name]? It really is as simple as that. According to the social media frenzy friendly findings of a Dr Dustin Wood [https://www.studyinternational.com/news/university-study-finds-one-question-can-reveal-a-lot-about-personality] . He built on the knowledge that; > “A huge suite of negative personality traits are associated

Treating Your Pitch Like United Nations Boss Application

I’m quite taken with this week’s new UN Sec General selection. Ban Ki-Moon’s successor might have a touch of democracy about them for a change. Rather than being appointed through favour, the eight candidates face a two-hour grilling. Broadcast around the world, live. The 193 representative ambassadors

The Simple Surfing Switch Which If Subconscious Boosts Your Selling

[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/07/how-accidental-entrepreneurs-can-change-the-world/] from The Telegraph (London) news site – highlighted line my addition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I could hardly believe this when I read it. Compelled to comment. B-school prof Adam Grant reckons it’s because most people accept the default browsers. Made the effort