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Now here’s a story we can get our teeth into….
For those too busy to click the link, it’s all about a new system being set up called the “National Staff Dismissal Register”, which is a system where an employer can log the details of any member of staff who was fired or who resigned from […]

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It’s a well-known fact that writing a top-quality CV is both vitally important to the end-game of getting a new job and actually quite difficult. This week, we’ll be looking at flipping this scenario on its head and discussing an equally-neglected task: writing job descriptions.
It won’t surprise you that we see a […]

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This is may be a little off-topic, although with the fear spreading throughout the recruitment industry as to the effect that the problems with the worldwide economy will have on hiring, perhaps it’s not….
Thankfully for us, we happen to know a guy who survived the last downturn. So what was the secret of his […]

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China isn’t for the faint hearted, and as our former MD, Michael Wright is soon to leave UK shores for the Far East we are writing a series of articles to ease the tension he’s feeling and actually validate his thinking about why setting up in China is a good thing.
Dateline 2007, January: A […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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We spotted an interesting article one of our fave glossy magazines Information Age by Gareth Morgan which talks about recent survey conducted by Badenoch and Clark, a Recruiting Agency, which has revealed some altogether unsurprising results. According to this research, a quarter of all IT workers are unhappy in their careers, and almost a third […]

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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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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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