Just a quick one this – firstly, grave apologies to all the subscribers who received a random post this morning which then disappeared.
We were getting excited about the fact that visitors to the blog can now register as a candidate or potential candidate with Idealpeople via the Register! link at the top of the page. [...]

You can tell your blog is doing OK when readers start asking you questions )
We’ve had one this week asking us whether non-professional experience counts for much on a CV. It seems that this particular reader has been quite busy at home doing open-source development work that has nothing to do with his [...]

You’ve probably heard about the credit crunch, right?
And you’ve probably heard about the trouble brewing in the worldwide financial markets, right?
There’s plenty of people out there wondering how this might affect recruitment. So we decided to ask the Idealpeople team what they thought 2008 held for them. First up, it’s our inimitable former [...]

Last week saw an interesting security breach of a different kind, and one which raises some questions about the integrity of on-line CV databases.
Totaljobs suffered a pretty heavy-sounding security breach. It appears that someone had set up a fake website, stole their branding and then bashed an e-mail out to as many recruiters out [...]

Regular readers will know that something has been bugging us for quite some time. That something is the practices of certain recruiters. The recruitment industry has become commoditized. There is insufficient regulation, not enough accountability, and the systems that some have taken to assess the practices and behaviours are far from suitable.
One [...]

In this article, we focus specifically on how to avoid making mistakes when hiring salespeople for your Web 2.0 or other high-technology start-up business. We wish this was a catch-all to avoid all problems, but it isn’t! There is, unfortunately, no perfect means to hire successful salespeople every single time.
Let’s firstly look at a scenario. [...]

Remember the Idealpeople “Call to Arms” series we kicked off not too long ago? You know, it was the thing about changing the way a significant number of people working in the Recruitment industry are getting are doing little more than harranging businesses, firing a lot of mud at people and offering little or [...]

You may have already read our previous blogs on hot Technical Skills in 2008. These reflected the demand we experienced for core skills in 2007. What they didn’t reflect of course are the “emerging” technical stuffs – the stuff that is hot, but isn’t necessarily measurably hot (yet). Cool skills are kind [...]

All Recruitment Consultants are Salespeople at heart. Sure, some may have an original background in HR, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Training or even have held senior posts in ‘Industry’ – say Banking, Server Virtualisation, Digital Marketing or Wireless.
But, at the end of the day, Recruiters are ‘Opportunity Brokers’. Salespeople.
So, how do you trust a Salesperson? They [...]

Something funny happened today. A candidate (or a non-candidate as it now seems) replied to our e-mail about an awesome position we’re working on with this:
Hello,
Lady, you come right out of a comic book.
This opportunity needs incinerated.
Steve
[*Idealpeople scratches head*]