Working with a recruitment company means you have to pay a fee but what are you paying for? And how does a recruitment agency justify some of the fees that they charge?
Read MoreNow don’t worry, I’m going to give you the sales pitch on why work with Winhurst Recruitment but this is a question I get asked A LOT! Why Winhurst? Where does Winhurst come from? So here is Winhurst’s story.
Read MoreNot every candidate immediately accepts a job offer. Sometimes they take time to think it through, and that’s not always a bad thing. Look at their behaviour leading up to this moment and decide for yourself.
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 More“Oh, I’ve got the perfect job for you with the most amazing business, you’ll love it!” How many times have you heard that from a recruiter? And when you actually get talking to them, they have no idea who are or what you do?
Read MoreA few months ago, I was approached by a new client who wanted me to help them with a piece of recruitment. We agreed on terms of business and then they asked if they could have a free replacement if the candidate I placed didn’t work out.
Read MoreA few months ago, I went to a recruitment networking meeting and the question was asked “How is business?”. The room went silent. Everybody looked around, desperate for someone to say something which they didn’t, except little old me did, and the words “It’s really bloody tough at the moment” came out.
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 MoreShould we do some kind of work while we’re on holiday or should we switch off completely?
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing. In June 2011 I worked away from job as a Commercial Manager in the Food Industry to work in Recruitment. Some people thought I was insane and some people grinned from ear to ear in the same way I was. It had broken me. Not one part of it, a whole barrage of it.
Read MoreQuite a strong accusation which really really shook me to my core. And something I don’t brush off lightly, so when I received an email recently accusing me of this I was completely gobsmacked, then I felt defensive, and then I put myself in the shoes of the person accusing me of it. They must have felt either really desperate, sad or frustrated, maybe all three to accuse me. I took a big breath and did what most of us do…..I ‘Google’d it! And this is what I found:
Read More“Are you generation X as you don’t sound that old?” That was what a candidate said to me yesterday. I had no idea what to say other than “I still think I’m 24 but the inability to drink like I used to, and the hangovers tell me otherwise” was my response. **
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 MoreIt’s on my Friday morning swim (I must go on a Friday if I want a glass of wine on a Friday evening, that’s the deal!) that I usually get my thoughts together about what I’m going to write about and this morning once again, delivered a few ideas. But then a chat with a candidate this morning cemented the exact topic of something that I’ve been giving a lot of thought to. The Interim market.
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.
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