Permalink to: 5 Things Candidates Wish You Knew When Hiring

5 Things Candidates Wish You Knew When Hiring

The recruitment process is a daunting one. For hiring professionals, it means screening countless CVs, interviewing numerous candidates, and often doing this for multiple roles at a time. It can be easy in the process to forget that on the other side of the application is someone’s career – something that will likely have an impact on almost every area
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Permalink to: Hire Slow, Fire Fast or Hire Smart, Fire less

Hire Slow, Fire Fast or Hire Smart, Fire less

I am copying the title of Jim Calloway’s article on hiring within law firms. It resonated with me as I have heard all week from clients who have been hearing ‘hire slow, fire fast’. This saying has never rested well with me as having recruited over the past 20 years, I would say 80% of the roles I recruited I always needed urgently. Not because of bad planning, but because of opportunities we found. Being in the IT side of many industries, change and hiring are the constant – its just what change and what skills.
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Permalink to: 5 Basic Tech Skills That Will Get You Hired

5 Basic Tech Skills That Will Get You Hired

Technology is an important part of most jobs nowadays, even for those not in IT. Businesses use it to speed up their procedures, organise calendars, organise workflow, and with many people still socially distancing, even hold meetings. To get hired for your dream role, therefore, it’s important that you cover the basics. Here are 5 basic tech skills that almost
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Permalink to: 31 quotes to inspire while you hire

31 quotes to inspire while you hire

With the financial year coming to an end, many companies are about to enter their busy hiring season. While everyone’s approach to hiring is different based on the needs of their business, we thought it would be helpful to share some of our favourite quotes around hiring and recruitment. We know that it’s not always an easy task, so we
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Permalink to: 5 Candidate Green Flags when Hiring

5 Candidate Green Flags when Hiring

We know to look out for red flags when hiring. These are the things that make you uneasy when considering a candidate. Things like only being employed for short stints at a time, negative references, or bad background checks are all warning signs that hiring this candidate could be a bad idea. We notice red flags more because it’s easy
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Permalink to: Get rid of being unemployed, once and for all

Get rid of being unemployed, once and for all

I have shared previously how I was retrenched and dug my way out of the unemployment hole a few times. While more and more people are being made redundant, retrenched, or put-on short time I have a few options while you job search. I share these 7 ideas when I get a CV sent to me and hope they can help you go from unemployed to employed in a different way
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Permalink to: Why didn’t you hire fast enough?

Why didn’t you hire fast enough?

Recently we ran a study on how long it takes to hire an employee. This was internally for the business and compared this to how long it does take to hire for clients. An interesting concept, since hiring is what we do as a business. We hired over 15 employees in the last 6 months, so we broke down the
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