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We’re not normally that interested in the various ways in which the Recruitment industry dishes out awards to itself. That’s why, frankly, we couldn’t be bothered even mentioning the Recruiter Awards for Excellence this year. We can tell you that lots of awards were won by some companies. Great.
However, there’s an […]

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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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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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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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