Recruiter swears at candidate. Gutter press outraged.

Many of you will have already seen the story about senior recruiter Gary Chaplin telling a candidate who had emailed his CV to some 4,000 recruitment agencies to “fuck-off”.

The Daily Mail and The Sun in particular seemed to be cheerleading the righteous indignation of the masses – however they did, unlike me, replace all or some of the letters with asterisks, thus further reinforcing their burgeoning status as the protectors of our moral sensibilities.

To ramp-up the…

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I’ve found something I agree with James Caan on.

That’s not to say that I always disagree with what James has to say about recruitment – it’s more that I’ve only ever read one other thing by him, which was that his fixed-fee job board advertising business Webrecruit was “revolutionising the recruitment industry”.

But hey, you know what I’m like with outrageously grandiose marketing slogans and the sometimes inflated relevancy afforded people just because they’ve been on the telly,…

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Fear & Loathing in Budgens

Yesterday morning I went to the local mini-supermarket for a little impromptu shopping. You know, the normal stuff you need on a Sunday, like tomatoes, cheese, eggs, milk, a newspaper, salami, a melon and no chocolate.

I mention the ‘no chocolate’ thing, as getting to the checkout without putting any in my basket was something of an achievement.

I’ve been putting on a bit of weight the past couple of years. Given that I a) don’t eat that much and b) don’t eat very much junk…

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