SME Recruitment
Given everything that has happened in the economy over the past 15 months in terms of global corporate largesse, this writer has generally been of the opinion that it will be the SME’s that lead us out of recession.
So you can imagine my delight to hear that recruitment is “booming” and has reached a “two year high”.
A few days later, my delight was tinged with a more familiar shaking of the head when I read that they blow £69 million on weak recruitment decisions – a number that…
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Bridging the Sales and HR gap
Recruitment is, at its most critical end, a function of sales and performs best under a well-defined brand and when underpinned by a decent marketing strategy.
This is an ethic that is largely embraced in the better recruitment agencies (and in many cases is taken way too far) yet isn’t in the corporate sector. In most companies there is little or no interaction between the Sales & Marketing function and the HR/Recruitment function.
I’ve heard a lot of people speak in…
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Hiring
Interest and timely advice for job-seekers from Richard Alberg at his blog site here.
Whilst I totally agree with the sentiment, I wonder how much effort is actually expended by recruitment consultants, HR people and hiring managers in reading CVs …and I mean really reading, as opposed to scanning for keywords that appeared on the job spec.
I read a lot of advice for job-seekers intended to improve the way they present themselves to prospective employers, but rarely read advice…
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