Over the next few weeks, we’ll be bringing you all some sensible strategies for putting together killer CVs.
CVs themselves are under a bit of fire at the moment – there’s an emerging school of thought that says that they are the worst way of selecting someone to hire (or even of distinguishing between candidates who [...]

We’ve been alerted by a candidate to a recent spate of identity theft arising from fake recruiters asking candidates for scanned or photocopied versions of their passports (See the full article here). The idea is that a “recruiter” calls a jobseeker, takes them through details of a job overseas and claims to be able to [...]

Picture the scene: you’ve spent many months looking for a new job. Undoubtedly, there is something about your current job which you are not happy with: be it a lack of career progression, poor salary, poor working environment or just plain boredom.
Finally, you have success. Job offer in hand, you approach your boss to break [...]

Today’s topic for discussion at Idealpeople Towers is Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). To the unitiated, RPO entails a company outsourcing all of their recruitment operations to one company (sometimes called an Managed Service Provider or MSP). It is then the RPO company’s responsibility to fulfill all hiring needs and lift the burden associated with sourcing [...]

We’ve always been interested in overcoming the problems facing Technology companies and departments during periods when they’re looking to hire talented people. However, we’ve been especially interested in the “skills gap” problem which has become very noticeable over the last couple of years. The current market conditions are making Recruitment of staff particularly difficult – [...]

It’s been an entertaining week here at Idealpeople HQ, kicked off by some interesting dialogue on Social Networking and Recruitment.
For those of you not in the know, Social Networking is essentially on-line relationship building. It’s been featuring quite heavily in the news recently, with websites like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo – which offer you the [...]