I have had this conversation twice in the last week. And both times the “age” word cropped up really early in the conversation and both times, I was talking to male candidates. And it got me thinking, not about the Age Discrimination Act because I’m not that kind of person, but about at what age do you start worrying about your age?
Read MoreA candidate once said this to me, and I got him his new challenge. 6 years later, he’s just about forgiven me! So what does a challenge mean to you?
Read MoreWhen leaving a job, there can be a million & one reasons but here I think is the BEST way of wording something so negative, into a massive positive.
Read MoreUp until a year ago, I thought the only Ghosts were around this time of year but I was wrong, there’s a whole year where they appear!
Read MoreI have just got off the phone from a candidate and during the call I had a proper “laugh out loud” moment. With 24 hours to go before she interviewed for a job I’d put her forward for, we were just going through all the information I’d sent over and her parting of comment of “You’re very different……good different” had me laughing, then thinking.
Read MoreI only ever said this once. The candidate I said it to, it must have been his 2nd job interview he’d ever gone for and he took it literally. He turned up in shorts, T-shirt and flipflops.
Read MoreOne of my clients was interviewing a couple of my candidates……After first round of interviews we had a debrief and that is when he said “One candidate is like Tigger, the other is like Eeyore. And I can’t decide if I want a Tigger or an Eeyore working for me”.
Read MoreI’m going straight in with the answer for this one…….if you arrive less than 10 minutes early for an interview, you are late. In my eyes anyway.
Read MoreI’m starting this blog in the hope that some answers come to me, as right now I have no idea! I have just got off the phone from a candidate who applied for a Planning Managers job and the advert states “experience in a planning department within a food manufacturing environment, preferably chilled”. This candidate works in a Bank. A bloody bank.
Read MoreIf one more person says to me “I was told my CV needed to be on 2 pages” I might scream….
Read MoreIn the current climate where competition is fierce to find your job, here are some suggestions that will hopefully give you some control on your job search.
Read MoreToday my friend Chris sent me his CV to have a look at. I opened it and the first thing that stood out was Christopher, because that’s his name, but that’s not his name in my world. We explore what name you should put on your CV if you are called something different to your birth name.
Read MoreI spend up to 5 hours a day talking to candidates about their search for a new job, but when is the best time to start looking? Let’s discuss….
Read MoreAs some of you may know, prior to me becoming a recruiter, I worked in the food industry and as I’ve said many times before, it’s a crazy, magical, frustrating and exhilarating industry. But I left because I’d fallen out of love with it and I needed to find something I loved again. That’s when recruitment came knocking on my door.
Read MoreWhen I first had a thought to write something about LinkedIn, I had nearly 4,952 connections and was getting all excited about hitting the 5,000 mark. Then I wrote a comment on LinkedIn on Monday 15th May 2017 at 6.50pm just before I left the office, about a candidate of mine getting her dream job and who’d have known what would follow……
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