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People of the job-hunting-o-sphere, we want to give you some free stuff.  Specifically, we’d like to give you some free advice…in return for just a few minutes of your time.
We’ve got a short set of questions we’d like to ask you about your search, about the market, about the challenges you’ve faced, about the things [...]

Free CV Reviews in exchange for your thoughts

Free CV reviews from Idealpeople – in exchange for just ten short minutes of your time…

Tech Job-Seeking in the Post-Apocalyptic Economy

Tech Job-Seeking in the Post-Apocalyptic Economy: a presentation about overcoming the challenges faced by job-seekers in the jobs market of 2009.

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It’s pretty difficult for us to believe, but this blog is nearly 2 years old now. We’re pretty proud of that – it’s been a lot of hard work getting it to this stage and if it wasn’t for the ever-increasing number of subscribers and viewers then we may well have knocked it on [...]

A Big Thankyou

Something happened today which has reminded us that no matter what the situation and no matter how bad a situation is, human kindness can come to the rescue, and we’d like to say thanks. Consider our faith in human kindness (at least temporarily) restored!
The tale:
One of our number, who shall for now remain nameless [...]

Idealpeople entra nel mercato Italiano dei Beni di Largo Consumo (FMCG)

31st March, 2009 – http://www.idealpeople.it/news/italyopen.html
Idealpeople, compagnia di selezione e reclutamento con otto anni di storia ed esperienza specificamenete nel settore tecnologico con innovazione e creativită, annunciano la loro espansione nel mercato dei Beni di Largo Consumo Italiano (FMCG).
Reclutando attivamente per il mercato Italiano, annunciano pubblicamente il loro nuovo sito in Italiano, disponibile cliccando: http://www.idealpeople.it
Marco Abbate, [...]

Remote Controls, Recruitment Limbo and Recruiting in a Downturn

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re experiencing a little turbulence! Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for evasive action! To tell you the truth, turbulence doesn’t quite cover it: the job market is carnage right now. There isn’t a day that passes without national and local news telling us of job-cuts and redundancies. Elsewhere, [...]

Job-board exposes age-old recruiter trick

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 [...]

How to apply for a job on-line

(Better late than never, right?)
Earlier in the week, we were talking about strategies for getting a job on-line. In this, we announced the relatively interesting finding from some recent research which suggests that 25% of people who find a new job using the internet do so through an advert.
Don’t let such a relatively low [...]

DeeDee Doke – Apology

We would like to apologise to DeeDee Doke, Editor of Recruiter, and to Recruiter magazine, for some comments we made in a recent post. Our comments were untrue and unfounded. We intended no offence.
For this reason, we would like to apologise unreservedly for the embarrassment caused to DeeDee.
Further, we would like to thank everyone at [...]