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7 Myths About Great Résumés
When friends find out I work in recruitment they often have a lot of questions. They might ask for funny stories, the strangest applications I’ve seen, but it’s never that long until
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The Talent Hacker’s Manifesto
Nick Marsh of Lostmy.name recently introduced the term Talent Hacking. His contention was that hiring was broken and there existed a movement towards a new way of thinking. How did it come to
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Metrics that Matter
Firstly apologies to those of you that aren’t quite as geeky about the numbers of recruitment as I am, I’ll be back to ranting about the misuse of Pinterest for recruitment soon. As
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The Itchy Security Blanket of Recruitment Metrics
The rise of more intuitive technology enabling the recruitment process has made for an interesting corollary – a rise in an organisation’s ability to collect and report data connected
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On “Culture” – “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means”.
How many job adverts currently advertise a “great culture”, “a start-up culture” or a “Google-like culture”? It seems as though the only company not shouting
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On Hiring Technical Women
I believe that even in my lifetime the advances that have been made in technology have been a great leveller. Technology has enabled so much collaboration across so many different boundaries,
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The Perils of “Social Recruitment” or Putting the “Anti” in Social Recruitment
Many years ago, too many to remember clearly, I worked as a third party recruiter. All the clichés were present and correct. We’d “hammer” the phones, stand up to
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On Becoming Discoverable – advice for job applicants
Eventually there comes a time in every period of employment that an employee starts to imagine the greener pastures that exist in other offices. It’s not that they’ve been courted by
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On the Cultural Normalization of the Recruitment Process
The recruitment process of old is long dead. The didactic hierarchy of employer as king and the cowering potential employee grateful for the opportunity “just to be here” is over. In