Friday, February 26th, 2010 - Blog
St David’s Day Sale!
As we are a Welsh based organisation, it seems only appropriate that we have our first sale celebrating St David’s Day!
St Davids Day
Saint David’s Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year. The date of [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - job application rejection, recruiters, recruitment
Why recruiters reject you
As a recruiter, it some times surprises me when job applicants and job seekers complain about being rejected by recruiters.
They some how think that we are a personal service, and therefore should always care about them, by:
Acknowledging their communication
Always calling them on the telephone, no matter how they applied for our advertised [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 - Blog, unemployment
UK Unemployment: an issue of immigration or education?
The BBC had two excellent programmes shown last night, which addressed the key 2010 UK general Election issue of immigration.
The first was Evans Davies programme on BBC1 titled The day the immigrants left; the second was BBC2’s Newsnight investigation into the Education Visa issue.
The day the immigrants left
Evan [...]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 - Job Advertisement, Job Boards, career change, career transition, cv help, cv writing, job application, job application rejection, job search, job seeking
Job Application: employer direct
As a recruiter, of course I would always prefer that as a job seeker you come to me over going to an employer to find a job. I get paid a fee for vetting out the unsuitable job applications, and reduce the time an employer takes to fill a job.
But I actually [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010 - Blog, Workplace bullying, disciplinary procedure, employment, recruitment
Workplace Bullying
This weekends launch of a new version of a book by political journalist Andrew Rawnsley, and the relaunch of the Observer in a new format, all in the year of a UK general election have brought to the front pages of many newspapers the issues of Workplace Bullying.
But, unfortunately the political tones and repercussions [...]
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