Thought for the day

Every time a contingency recruiter leaves their employer to set up on their own, the recruitment gene pool gets ever more shallower than the piss-puddle of a Chihuahua with a water infection.

Most job hunting advice is rubbish

Those self-help books are the worst. Several hundred pages of author self-promotion all designed to sleep-walk you into their next seminar and with about as much meaningful practical advice as can be put onto a post-it note.

Much of the perceived wisdom about how to find “your dream job” (like that has ever existed for about 99% of the population) revolves around candidates selling themselves.

Why should Administrators, Accountants and Actuaries be expected to be good at sales? That…

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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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