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 [...]

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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - Blog

Linkedin Jobs: Q&A? Dave Lawson asks: How do Recruiters and Hiring Managers look upon LinkedIn Q&A? Many people participate in Q&A under the assumption that it improves their overall resume. Yet, how do recruiters and hiring managers look upon participation in Q&A? Do you review the Q&A contributions of potential candidates? Are numbers – such [...]

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Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - cv help, economics, employment, job application, job search, recruitment

Job Search or Horse Racing The question for today is: Is a Job Search more like a bet placed on a horse race, than an assured outcome? To which the answer is: while many may suffer the consequences and look at it as a horse race, you can make it more of an assured outcome [...]

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - Professional CV, career change, job application, job application rejection, job search, professionalism, tutorial

Reject Job Applications When I first came into the world of recruitment and employment full time, two things suddenly struck me: That, on average in the typical job search, we were dismissing half of the job applications at the first stage: sifting That, to a great extent, the dismissed applications were dealt with as irrelevant [...]

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Friday, August 21st, 2009 - Article, Social Media, career management, employment, job application, job search, tutorial

Social Media: screw or support your career? The social media revolution is being termed by some as the second industrial revolution. Facebook is now effectively the forth largest country in the world, although it is still smaller than China’s QZone at 300million; and it only took the iPod to reach 50million users in 3years, as [...]

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