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We were delighted to be invited along to Liverpool John Moores University this week to give some job-seeking advice to students who would be looking to break into the Games Industry.
For those lucky enough to be there, we’ve made the presentation we used available for download from here.
For those who weren’t, here’s a very brief […]

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Our resident Scottishman and Head of Contractor Services got himself all married last weekend. Some of the lucky Idealpeople got to witness the entire event (whilst the even luckier ones got to uphold the Idealpeople fort), but everyone was at the reception in the evening. Well, everyone except for Dominic, who blew the event off […]

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There’s an interesting report produced by Hire Strategies, which makes for some interesting reading. You can download the report for free, or accept our word on some of the content.
It’s now very common (you could argue it’s almost necessary) for part of a company’s direct hiring strategy to encompass advertising and encouraging applications via […]

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Dearest readers, we need your advice.
We recently received some particularly cutting feedback from one individual that one of our staff had sent an e-mail to in relation to a Computer Vision position we’re trying to fill on behalf of a client.
The feedback took the form of two e-mails. The initial […]

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Welcome to Part Three of tips for writing a killer CV.
Now you’ve read part one and part two and you’ve taken as many adjectives out of it as possible and added benefits to your features, you’re ready for the next step: setting your CV free.
The “normal” way of doing this is to go […]

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We were intrigued earlier in the week when came across an article about swearing in the workplace. According to researchers, swearing relieves stress and improves staff morale.
Once we got over the initial shock that someone had found the time to research this, we became a little more intrigued - particularly after reading some of […]

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Would Lewis Hamilton win if he was driving a Toyota instead of a speedy McLaren? Would Jenson Button win if he was driving a McLaren instead of a slow Honda? When looking at the success of any team made up of two discrete units, it’s important to know which component is adding the most value.
The […]

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Everyone’s talking about Social Networking, Web 2.0, Mashups, AJAX, Final Convergence and Commoditization. Is this a real renaissance or are we back to the infamously buzzword-inventing days of the slightly pre-dot-com era?
Social Networking is the latest, greatest on-line trend. The general view is that sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and the rest of them are […]

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There isn’t a business we know which is totally recruiterproof. Getting your people ’stolen’, ‘poached’, ‘pinched’ or otherwise taken by a competitor, or even a non-competitor, really really sucks.
This is possibly a strange set of tips for a Recruitment Company to give away. We aren’t here to make excuses for what we do, or even […]

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Building on something we mentioned in the first instalment of our CV tips - in which we made a point about how CVs are taking a little bit of stick for being unfit for their purpose, we thought we’d open some dialogue on Video CVs. To the unitiated, a Video CV is a presentation of […]

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