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When we started this blog we *promised* ourselves we wouldn’t use it for shameless self-publicity.  Whilst we haven’t completely changed our minds, we did want to let you all know that we’re hiring - so if you’re looking to work in recruitment, take a look at our latest ad:
Four of the UK’s top 11 Recruiters […]

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Idealpeople are evangelical about Employer Branding (AKA Recruitment Branding). We help businesses who don’t know why or how to get it right, and we have been fortunate enough to work with worldwide winners who are already doing it right. It’s this combined learning and advisory experience which has helped us to develop pretty hot skills […]

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Searching the web the other day, we came across the following feedback regarding one particular Recruitment company:
As usual, I had no acknowledgement and no contact. I doubt that the job advertised even exists. Recruitment consultants are pond life and even lower in the food chain than estate agents. It is unprofessional to not even acknowledge […]

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Welcome to Part Two of our CV writing guide. In case you didn’t catch it, part one is here.
Before we begin, let’s talk about selling for a moment. There are many different ways of “selling” a product or service. We’re generalising a little, but a bad sales pitch generally follows the structure of get in […]

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It’s well known throughout the technology world that the games industry is an especially difficult career path to take. For the statisically-minded amongst you, a brief piece of research we’ve done using one of the major on-line job boards suggests that whilst there’s 310 jobs currently being advertised with the word “games” in the title, […]

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This blog was supposed to be the first in our series of Book Reviews. The plan was, and still is, relatively simple: Read a book about Technology Recruiting or Technology itself and write a review.
However, the first book on our hitlist was so good that we haven’t even got to the end yet and we […]

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We’ve all had it. It’s Friday, and you’ve just taken a call from the tenth recruiter this week asking for some business. You’re fed up with it. You’ve had enough, so you snap.
Believe me, we’ve heard all kinds of responses to cold calls. Believe it or not, we get quite a few ourselves from “Recruitment […]

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A recent survey of 600 UK-based technology firms showed that employee flexi-time and tele/remote working is currently at the bottom of IT directors’ priorities, despite them also saying that their main problems are firstly recruiting and secondly retaining the top talent.
Interestingly, the findings also showed that those firms whose turnover had increased by 15 per […]

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We stumbled across an intriguing  article in Personnel Today earlier.
The bulk of the article explains that many companies have moved to cut recruitment costs, principally by implementing on-line strategies. This is not unexpected, given the vast cost savings this can bring whilst simultaneously improving captive audiences and streamlining the process of hiring staff.
The really interesting […]

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