Nekkid as a jay bird This was no ordinary interview. I was given last minute instructions; “Enter the room, acknowledge the recruitment panel of 8 elderly men in uniform, hang up my robe on the hook provided, and stand, facing the panel, on the footprints marked on the floor, NAKED AS THE DAY WAS BORN!...
[youtube height=”360″ width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXwSyURAliQ?rel=03&autohide+1&showinfo=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen[/youtube] How much do you know about Psychometric or Personality Profiling? Everyone in the recruitment sector will have at least some experience of this subject, and yet the views of so many people will often be wildly different. There really is no universal understanding of Profiling. The term psychometric profiling actually refers...
The Age of the Meander If asked to list the most popular websites on the planet, you would probably say Facebook, Amazon, YouTube, Twitter, The BBC, and LinkedIn. People not only visit these sites frequently, but can rack up hours in a session, moving from one interesting item to the other. What these sites all...
Recruiting Animal, known as @Animal on Twitter, has written a book, The Psychology of Job Hunting. As criticism is almost as good as praise, and easier to come by, he invited me, and a select few others to review the 80-page book, which is currently free to download on Amazon for Kindle. (Correction, the price has...
Quite a lot, as it happens. I’m about to blow my own trumpet so, as convention dictates, first I must self-deprecate. I don’t have a qualification to my name, and have never been promoted. I did of course achieve my Gold Arrow in the Cubs, was a seconder then a sixer, and in the Scouts...
If you have only read modern media, you might be forgiven for thinking that discrimination, particularly in the employment arena is the very definition of a bad thing. All recruiters should be aware of legislation covering this subject, and ensure their professional activities do not make them liable to either prosecution of even criticism. However,...
Ordinarily I wouldn’t think this stuff needs explaining, but following my last blog about the government’s new Universal JobMatch job board, it’s clear from the responses that there are still a great number of misconceptions about our industry. If you think I am stating the bleedin’ obvious, then this blog is not aimed at you....
Look, I’d very much like these statistics, published today in the Sunday Times, to be true, but frankly, I just don’t believe them. Is this the first year these statistics have been collected, from the same demographic sample? If so, we might properly ask if women business owners have different attitudes (on the whole) to...
Job board owners of the UK, how fantastic and spectacular a job board could you build for £17m? You might say “that’s crazy money. You could build a world beating job board for half that. You could even purchase any one of the technically brilliant, but commercially failing established recruitment web sites in the UK...
