A little about working in Cape Town Having lived in a number of places in South Africa and abroad, I can attest to Cape Town being a lovely place to live. Many local and foreign job seekers ask about Cape Town as a place for employees and expats, and it is without a doubt one…
Thinking about the future of recruitment While recruiters nowadays can look to various revenue streams, they will soon have to adapt to the different ways in which candidates are responding to job adverts and the various methods of offering a service to companies. The future of recruitment is peppered with change and the below are…
Do you qualify for any foreign language jobs? Those job seekers with a command of far eastern and local indigenous languages have better salaries awaiting them if their work requires the language. Adzuna in South Africa has completed research on which foreign language jobs and languages which bring home the bacon best. Chinese/Mandarin, Japanese, Xhosa…
Using social media to recruit As the large recruitment website Monster says: “…talent acquisition has been an early adopter of social networks…”. This is because a great deal of jobs are referral based and also due to the fact that marketing and recruitment now play more of a combined role. It also clearly comes about…
Onboarding 101 When a new employee starts at your firm, you should innately have a sense of wanting to help them through the initial stages of the job. Getting to know their colleagues, helping them into the swing of things work-wise and making sure they have the tools and systems to do the job in…
Get the most from your salary negotiations Every interview process, if successful, allows you a small window for negotiating your salary, where the precious minutes of the negotiation can literally change your lifestyle for many years to come. You could end up earning 20% more than you currently do, allowing you to live differently, save…
The cost of hiring the wrong person Hiring the wrong person is infinitely more costly than you think. Even just having to start over again looking for the right candidate is enough to make your stomach turn. But the costs go much deeper than that. A long list of costs and opportunity costs The total…
Recruitment branding is now key Wikipedia says: “Employer brand is the term commonly used to describe an organization’s reputation as an employer, and its value proposition to its employees, as opposed to its more general corporate brand reputation and value proposition to customers.” Distill that long sentence and you realise that as an employer, your…
Just how long should one stay in a job? With many people looking to change jobs in early 2017, as is the case at the start of every year, perhaps some of them should heed the points to be made around job tenure. When is acceptable to leave? The question is tricky as it depends…
Always have an extra project For those wondering what to write under hobbies on their CV, this is the chance to shine even more. Don’t use the word hobbies, because this forces you to write down things that you really like doing, but often aren’t relevant at all and don’t even give the employer much…
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