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When we started the blog, we PROMISED we wouldn’t post job adverts up here. But this one is just too pertinent to blogging in general the we couldn’t help ourselves….if you’re interested, mail us at contact@idealpeople.net for more information.
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Just a quick one this - firstly, grave apologies to all the subscribers who received a random post this morning which then disappeared.
We were getting excited about the fact that visitors to the blog can now register as a candidate or potential candidate with Idealpeople via the Register! link at the top of the page. […]

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Last week saw an interesting security breach of a different kind, and one which raises some questions about the integrity of on-line CV databases.
Totaljobs suffered a pretty heavy-sounding security breach. It appears that someone had set up a fake website, stole their branding and then bashed an e-mail out to as many recruiters out […]

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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:
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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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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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In an unprecendented turn of events, we’ve decided that part one of Richard Stockill’s of Recruitment & Selection methods was so good that you’d probably not want to wait until tomorrow to get the second installment. So here you go…..
So far we have discussed the most common selection methods, and I hope that what […]

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We were delighted to be invited to speak to a group of final-year students at the University of Northampton’s Business Schoolearlier this week, on the subject of Careers in Recruitment.
We’ve recently been on a one-company mission (particularly in the absence of much help from the industry’s, ahem, “Regulator”) to change the way Recruitment as a […]

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