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recruitment

A collection of 86 issues

Sending A Proposal Cover Letter

As the Nineties dawned, I was once asked by a senior rep to send out a Prop on his behalf while he was out the office. In the prehistoric dark days before wheelie cases, I remember it being for large luggage manufacturer, Antler. I had but emerging knowledge for the

Are You Or Your Prospects Being Mushroomed?

I keep a keen eye out for the latest interview trends. Recruiting salespeople is possibly the most hazardous part of any manager’s job. Sadly sales managers get even less direction and preparation in how to do it well than they receive even on new and polishing selling skill. I’

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