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Entries from October 2008

A short guide to what not to put in your CV

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve mentioned this before, but an article on the BBC website has reminded us of an important message about CVs and the information people put in them.
According to the article, a phoney employer’s website was set up by iProfile with the backing of the Police and the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), and a job […]

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Idealpeople WLTM Experienced Contracts Recruiter, GSOH & GTR Needed

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

We know that shameless self-promotion is the wrong kind of fodder for our blog, but seeing as we’ve been a little quiet recently, and as we have a large readership of recruiters (we can see you, you know…), we’d thought we’d let you know about some goings-on at IDP Towers.
We’re looking to make a key […]

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Job-board exposes age-old recruiter trick

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

With difficult times often come drastic measures. Unfortunately, it appears that some people will stop at nothing - and some most certainly won’t let any form of ethics or decency get in the way.
So we had an e-mail from a job-board this week, alerting us to what they termed “two bogus CVs” that had […]

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Tags: Call to Arms - Changing Recruitment Forever