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Avoid These Common Mistakes During Your Job Search

Avoid These Common Mistakes During Your Job Search

Looking for a job is hard and with so much conflicting job search advice online it’s difficult to know what you should and shouldn’t do during your search for a new job. I’ve been a recruiter for almost two decades and here are the common mistakes I

The Ultimate Guide To Job Searching

The Ultimate Guide To Job Searching

Searching for a job is hard. They say it’s easier to get a job when you’ve got a job, but given the last four years of mass lay offs and economic uncertainty, this is no longer true. The truth is, it doesn’t matter whether you currently have

How To Prepare For Your Job Interview Like A Pro

How To Prepare For Your Job Interview Like A Pro

In my almost 20 years as a recruiter I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates and you can tell within the first five minutes of the interview whether they’re prepared or not. Why does preparing for a job interview matter? Well it shows your interviewers that you’re taking it

Skills Based Hiring Doesn’t Have To Be Complicated

Skills Based Hiring Doesn’t Have To Be Complicated

Scrolling through LinkedIn I see constant posts about the benefits of skills based hiring, which I think everybody largely agrees on, but one of the things I rarely see is some really practical examples of how to implement it and success stories. So I thought I’d share one of

How to Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile to be more visible to Recruiters

Being visible and easily findable by Recruiters on LinkedIn is a great way to hear about new openings in your industry whether you're actively looking for a new job or just open to hearing about new positions. In this article we'll provide some top tips to

Recruiting Skills: How To Take A Hiring Manager Brief

Recruiting Skills: How To Take A Hiring Manager Brief

The moment you sit down with a hiring manager to take a brief is the single most important part of the recruitment process. If you don’t get this right you will waste a huge amount of time and energy, struggle to fill the vacancy, give a terrible candidate experience,

Recruiter Skills: Writing your Job Advert

Recruiter Skills: Writing your Job Advert

You’ve taken your brief with the hiring manager , next up you need to plan how you’re going to fill the role, one of the most underrated tools a recruiter has in their utility belt is the job advert. I spent the first 10 of my 15 year recruiting