Whether you’re the employer faced with an uncomfortable performance review, a business owner struggling to understand why things haven’t gone the way you expected with a key supplier, or an employee unable to come to terms with your boss … the confusion and chaos boils down to unmet expectations, which are a direct result…
Blog
How to Ace Your Next Online Interview – A Quick Reference Guide
With the rapid growth of video conferencing tools, the popularity of online interviews among recruiters and hiring managers is booming. Whether you’re new to Skype (or whatever tool you use) or a seasoned pro, this quick reference guide will ensure that your interview goes off as planned and puts you…
Going Above and Beyond Social Recruiting
Top candidates are being searched for more easily, and being pursued online with a speed and efficiency unlike anything ever seen before. More tools and resources are available to job seekers making them easier to find. Resume boards, job boards, mobile apps, news feeds, social networking sites, search engines, recruiters…
VIDEO: On Doing the Hiring Yourself
Doing the hiring yourself has it’s advantages, but may come with some very costly disadvantages that you as an employer may need to watch out for.
Employers and Job Seekers, 8 Powerful LinkedIn Ways to Attract Talent, Jobs and Business
LinkedIn builds Know, Like, Trust like no other. Your LinkedIn profile, done properly, tells others “I’m trustworthy and someone you want to hire, work for, and do business with ”. It’s been said a kazillion times — online relationships are built on transparency, on being, and showing the world, that we are who we say we are….
Money Money Money. It’s a Rich Man’s World.
Abba 1976. Remember? I work all night I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay. Almost 40 years later and money is still most business’s number one focus. Smart business you say? Think again. 2 Million People are Quitting Their Jobs Every Month. Still recovering from the…
LIFE LESSONS OF A HEADHUNTER: The 3 Irrefutable Laws of Trusting Relationships
Our greatest good in life can only be realized when we are in trusting relationships. I recently had an acquaintance respond to a favour I had asked of him about a month ago. He’s a brilliant business man who I have watched and respect very much for his razor sharp mind, and…
Recruiter Smoke and Fluff: 3 Signs That it’s Time to Look Elsewhere
Recruiters need to be swift to change, sharp on their feet, researching who’s who, and surfing employer hiring waves like a pro at next year’s Quiksilver. You can’t have a rapidly changing globalised economy and ever faster communications without an impact on employment and jobs, right? You would therefore expect the…
LIFE LESSONS OF A HEADHUNTER: Are We Good or Bad Bosses?
People do not leave companies for money. They leave people they don’t get along with. A friend of mine once said all you need is a resentment and a coffee pot and you can start your own business. So I did. And so do many others willingly choose self-employment, not because they want to make more…
LIFE LESSONS OF A HEADHUNTER: Millennials Schmillennials
While 1 in 4 Millennials might say they are feeling overwhelmed by debt, the rest of us in the working world are feeling overwhelmed with dealing with them. Them being the millennials, the GenY’ers. Millennials are the generation of people born between 1982 and 2000. Other’s say they are those…
Recent Comments