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March 2012

Boiling a Frog

I don’t believe them for a second. Politicians perpetually tell you one thing, when they mean another. What they are implementing may well be the exact right thing to do, but because they are steered by think-tanks, focus groups and PR arseholes, they feel compelled to spin illogical drivel, when the truth should already be...

THE YEAR OF THE API

This is an article I’ve had published in the March 2012 edition of Recruiter Magazine.   What does every recruitment firm have in common with social media platforms like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and Google+?  We all maintain a large, and growing, database of individuals.  Doing so confers a list of responsibilities which we share, and...

Two Types of Recruiter

This is a very simplistic theory, but I think it bears exploring.  In my experience there are two distinct types of recruiters; those who naturally thrive in the recruitment of Permanent Staff, and those who excel running a Temp Desk.   Perms recruiters typically handle 10 to 15 concurrently running recruitment projects, which can each...

Might is Right?

Some 28 years ago (when I was 18), and in the same building as my current office, I experienced my very first job in sales.  This telesales role was selling advertising in the in-house magazines and diaries of police and fire federations and associations.  This was all very new to me, and the office had...

Greetings!

Give us a kiss!  I wasn’t always a tactile person, you know. We didn’t really do hugs in my house, when I was young, and even now a greeting with my family usually consists of a raised eyebrow, accompanied with a gruff “Aye”. An embarrassing thing happened to me and a friend last week. Let’s...

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