How to hire like a startup I recently read a very good post by a good acquaintance of mine, Roger Norton. Roger works with startups all the time and posted what he feels they do: they are small autonomous teams that work in conditions of extreme uncertainty, searching for a repeatable scalable business model by…
How to not hide things on your CV Everyone has something they like to hide about themselves. Mine is that I was born in Stellenbosch. Some people don’t like to hear this and truth be told, I’m not your typical Stellenbosch person (for starters, I’m English). Yet for some reason, I prefer to hide this.…
Understanding employees through the psychological contract What many employers seldom think of, is what their staff expect they must do. While there may be a very tight contractual obligation, signed by both parties at the start of the employment contract, there is also an implicit understanding of what each party in the work relationship is…
What to know when you add a position to your CV When you add a position to your CV, there are certain details you should never, ever miss out. You may immediately think: “But I know what to write down!” Unfortunately, most people are lucky to get even 90% of it correct. And it shows…
Mobile recruitment is fantastic! Recruitment is all about reaching the right candidates and managing their applications from receipt to hire. At the same time, in many countries, people are now using their mobiles as their primary source of computing power. Smartphone penetration and usage is increasing and reaching saturation on a worldwide scale. People access…
How achievements separate you from the rest Job seekers, if you ever wonder what to say when you are asked why you should be hired, you aren’t separating yourself from the crowd. Without being able to do that, you’ll never get hired, or only land positions that require ordinary people. You want the vacancies that…
While writing about how recruiters need to dig deeper into client companies to deal with managers, find out more about what they are recruiting for and make more placements, I realised that companies need to work towards a similar goal. To maximise the effectiveness of the people recruiting for them, they need to partner more…
Recruiting through line managers There is a dirty saying in the recruitment industry: “HR probably stands for Human Resistance!” While that is not entirely true, recruiters usually have to interact mainly with HR in the client companies that they place candidates into. More often than not, HR professionals handling recruitment are merely administrative in their…
Getting your CV read Dear Job Seeker, due to the copious amount of CVs I receive daily, even hourly, I mostly cannot spend more than 20 seconds on your specific document/s. Kindly accept that nowadays, online recruitment has led to a bombardment of résumés which cannot all be read. Yours in finding a job, Recruiter.…
Ever heard of shortlisting? For those reading this who aren’t recruitment professionals,h ave you ever wondered how a recruitment consultant or agent gets paid? They only receive a commission on placing a candidate. Recruiters have a very challenging service to deliver, even in the face of extreme risk. Three problems with the current recruitment service…
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