Why the Job Board isn’t Dead After All
The death of the job board has been predicted for about as long as I can remember. Almost as soon as the old school classified adverts moved online there were those that said it wouldn’t work. With each new technical leap we were supposed to be abandoning the lowly job board. If you believe the…
How much does an in-house recruiter make? How much could they make?
Recruiters see a lot of salary surveys. Each year new ones are produced and we spend time looking at them and nodding sagely, all the while wondering if they are at all reflective of the truth. Salary surveys have never really gone far enough to explain any real context for their findings. Most often the…
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 an unscrupulous recruiter, it’s not that they are moving town or countries, it’s not even that they’ve been fired for stealing stationery supplies and…
Why you should make friends with Recruiters.
Johanna Rothman over at Hiring Technical People has recently blogged a colleague’s comments about the benefits of befriending those of the Recruiting persuasion. Although being aimed more at those recruiters working in Agencies I’m not 100% sure I agree with them all. 1. Some of the best jobs / candidates are rarely advertised This is…