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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 [...]
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 as [...]
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 if you understand [...]
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 and time wasting. [...]
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 opposed [...]