On this blog, I’ll be listing my thoughts and some articles on online recruitment in South Africa and abroad, as well as the way people are finding and filling vacancies. I’ll also list these thoughts on different pages from the drop-down menu bar on the website. If you have any thoughts or comments to add, please do send them to me and I will include them.
How to cut recruitment costs 0
Cut recruitment costs in 2017 While recruitment is an essential part of every company’s day-to-day operations, fuelling the firm with the right talent to take it forward, many organisations spend far to much on the exercise in general. Companies that have cut recruitment costs in the past usually find that with a few small tweaks, […]
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SME recruitment tools 0
How to rock SME recruitment Small companies often struggle unnecessarily to hire good talent, the truth is they can compete with large companies and in fact have advantages over them. SME recruitment (small and medium enterprise) is best done by using the myriad resources that correspond with your industry to spearhead the right talent instead […]
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A candidate hub for all 0
Would a candidate hub work? A recruitment industry friend of mine and I were chatting about how recruiters are or aren’t changing to survive the challenges in the recruitment marketplace. He mentioned that one of the top reasons some recruiters are better than others is that they can locate job seekers that others cannot. I […]
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Phone interview tips 0
Some important phone interview tips Telephonic interviews are often seen as easier than face-to-face interviews, but the truth is that they are harder. By that I mean, it’s harder to show your brilliance! When you cannot see the person you’re being interviewed by and they cannot get a proper feel for you, it’s more difficult […]
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Company job ads 0
Company job ads need attention Are you a company that is hiring? Where are your online company job ads? Do you write them or do your recruiters? Do you even know what they say? When you put word out that you are looking for a skill, you should know that your company’s employment brand is […]
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The 2-step recruitment process 0
Defining the recruitment process Defining the recruitment process isn’t easy, but why complicate and lengthen it when a shorter version makes sense? I’ve done a few searches for “recruitment process” and found up to 45 steps on a slideshow for a recruitment company in the USA. But in many job searches for the right skills, […]
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Revenue streams for recruiters 0
Various revenue streams for recruiters While many recruitment companies still simply stick to the contingency-based fee structure on placing a candidate at a client company, others are embracing the changing recruitment landscape and introducing a rate card of sorts, offering literally any service that ties in with recruitment somehow. Here are some of them and […]
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Job website scams 0
Job website scams and what to look out for While applying for jobs online may seem like quite an easy and harmless thing to do, it is worth mentioning and issuing a tiny warning that some of these job adverts may be a spider’s web into which you may fly. Let’s find out about a […]
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STAR questioning in interviews 0
STAR questioning explained During interviews, STAR questioning is a behavioural or competency questioning technique used by interviewers to ascertain how someone would react to certain situations. Very often, they are negatively focused, meaning they will test how you respond to negative situations. STAR questioning asks you to describe a specific Situation, Task, Action you took […]
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How to find a job – Part One 0
Better ways on how to find a job Previously, I’ve given a short rundown of how to find a job in this article: Finding a job. As you can read there, the bottom line is that once you know what to look for, it’s generally quite easy to follow the other steps and the hardest […]
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