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Regular readers will be well aware of what we think of Recruitment Process Outsourcing - the process by which a company looking to hire (generally a large number of) people enslist the elp of one “master agency” to manage the work of several other agencies supplying the staff.
To summarize our argument, we believe that RPO […]

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The eagle-eyed amongst might have noticed our two posts in Chinese. As we’re an international organisation, you’ll have to excuse us the odd post in a foreign language or two. So this is from our resident Italian - Marco Abbate, who has a wealth of recruitment experience, is a published author and a […]

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Our MD, Nick Tooley is famous for many things. In particular, he’s famous for liking to rant extensively about a variety of things that get on his nerves. More privately though, he just loves finding the world’s best Software Testers.
Sometimes, his two passions conflict with each other, as his latest…ahem…rant shows:
So […]

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We spent some more time with the fantastic people over at the University of Northampton’s Career Service this week. It’s great to see a service which is both so visible within an academic insitution, and so effective in dealing with a very wide variety of enquiries. And we’re delighted to be able to […]

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The analytics for this site is so cool now that we can answer questions that you didn’t even mean to ask us directly, but you asked Google and it made you stumble on our Blog. So now we can answer your questions you didn’t even mean to ask us, by Proxy. How Web 2.0 of […]

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Our “Call to Arms” series is becoming ever more popular, particularly internally here at Idealpeople HQ. So, here’s some more from one of our favourite guest authors, Richard Stockill….
Over the course of a typical day I have started to notice I will generally be called by one of two titles, either a ‘Recruitment Agent’ […]

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Now this article was an interesting find. It’s a list of the world’s “most influential” headhunters.
Where on earth did this come from? How did they figure it out? To be frank, we’re not sure.
That’s not to say it’s a worthless exercise. In fact, every CEO should have a black book […]

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After 7 years of hiring people from Entry-Level to Head/VP/Director of QA who do Software Test, QA, Release, Configuration, UAT and Packaging, Idealpeople wanted to reflect on what makes a super-wicked Software Test Professional.
I’m talking about a Software Test Engineer who knows why they got into Software Testing, even if it was accidentally.
A QA […]

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Blimey, we’ve been inundated.
We’ve almost lost count of the number of people who have responded to our popular thread on which programming are hot and which are not asking for information on which programming languages were attracting the best salaries.
Now this was a tricky one, but you’ll be pleased to know that we […]

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And you thought we’d stop after the Boomerang Blog?
Shuriken: (Wikipedia): (手裏剣; lit: “hand released blade”) is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing an opponent’s arteries.
Cover Letter (Wikipedia): Employers may look for individualized and thoughtfully written cover letters to screen applicants who are not sufficiently […]

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