This is a response to a very interesting article published here, which discusses the ways in which job boards need to evolve to stay relevant, and avoid becoming the old-school media dinosaurs that they previously usurped. We live in very interesting times. Differentiation is key. Recruitment agencies are coming to the realisation that in...
Has there ever been anything as ridiculous than having to remove 15 pillows and cushions just to get into bed? Seriously, why decorate your floor with them through the night, only to put them back on the bed in the morning?
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!...
You know the stance; either standing or sitting, often recumbent with feet up on the desk, arms raised and hands clasped behind the head. I personally do this often, whether in the company or others or alone. It has the effect of stretching the shoulders and opening the airways. Now I don’t have anything smart,...
I’m no gambler, but lets see if I can explain this correctly. The betting favourite to win a race, or any other competition, isn’t necessarily the one most likely to win, but rather the one the bookies can’t afford to win and payout on. A “favourite” is simply the horse which the bookies give the...
[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...
“This email was sent using my mobile device, please excuse the brevity of my response and any typos that may be present.” I’m starting to see a lot of this message automatically added to the bottom of emails. I’m told that this is commonplace, and even default on Android phones. Apple phones simply have the...
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...
