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Sono un headhunter e lavoro per una international compagnia inglese e utilizzo tutti I giorni linkedin.
A mio avviso e` un network fantastico dove e` possible trovare le migliori persone sul mercato mondiale. Questo mio articolo non e` una pubblicita` a favore di linkedin ma e` solo un modo per dire che e` diventato un […]

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When it was introduced, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 caused something of a kerfuffle within the recruitment industry.
Don’t get us wrong, it’s not that the industry was reluctant to admit that ageism was a problem. The vast majority of recruiters will be able to tell stories of attitudes towards both older and younger […]

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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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Gosh, we’ve been a little quiet of late. Apologies, things have been rather hectic over here preparing some major changes to our corporate website as well as managing what’s been a really good start to 2008 for us, and our upcoming expansion into China.
He who shall remain nameless - Idealpeople’s chief blog writer - […]

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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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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 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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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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