I hit the age of 40 next week. I see hitting the milestone of four decades on this earth as an accomplishment, but I know that I’ll be in reflective mood, pondering like many if I’ve achieved enough in my career in those 350,000+ hours of being on this earth. And if you are 40 plus, you [...]
Category: candidates, interviews
Tags: HR, Interviews, Recruitment
Well done. All that preparation has paid off. You were brilliant at the interview and the new job is yours. So how can you now alleviate some of those nerves that you may get on the first day of your new role? I’ve put together ten tips to help ensure a smooth transition into that new [...]
Category: candidates, Recruitment, References
Tags: challenge, New job, Recruitment
A job interview is often a situation where we feel at our most nervous. Despite all the research and preparation, sometimes you will say something in an interview and afterwards wonder, “Where did those interview answers come from?” I remember as a student going for an interview with an electronics retailer as a sales assistant [...]
Category: candidates, interviews
Tags: careers, CVs, Interviews, Jobs
A recent survey from Bupa revealed that companies in the UK are losing close to £50 million a day in lost productivity from workers who fail to take a lunch break. I used to be part of the 70% of employees who failed to take a lunch break. I believed that by not having a [...]
Category: candidates, Leadership, Recruitment tips
Tags: HR, Lunch break, office, Recruitment
I was made redundant in 2005 from a marketing job at a brewery that I really enjoyed. Whilst there, I got to work with some of the biggest brands in the drinks industry on some really innovative marketing campaigns. When my boss called me in to deliver the bad news that I was being made [...]
Category: candidates, jobs, Recruitment
Tags: outsider, overwhlemed, promotion, Recruitment, regrets, stagnating, Wrong Job
Looking for a new position can be painful enough, but to be told you haven’t got the relevant industrial experience for a role, despite your skillset being seemingly perfect, well that can be crushing. After all, how else are you meant to get industry experience? But flip yourself round into to the shoes of the employer, and [...]
Category: candidates, Career experience, Recruitment
Tags: Industry experience, trainee
I was asked a question last week by someone who applied to one of our vacancies about how they should tackle an employment gap in their CV. It got me thinking and it sparked a lively debate in the office. “It obviously means they’ve been to prison,” was one of the sweeping generalisations I heard. But in [...]
Category: candidates, Human Resources, interviews, Recruitment
Tags: candidates, CV Writing Tips, CVs, Interviews, Jobseekers, Recruitment Process
Before I joined Response, I spent quite a while lost in the job search wilderness. I would sit at my desk at home, ploughing through the same recruitment websites day after day, firing my CV at anything that vaguely matched the criteria I was after. Strangely this scatter-gun approach didn’t get me very far and looking back, my unfocused approach [...]
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Interview preparation Does the thought of a job interview fill you with dread and despair? If you can remember that a job interview, just like any other type of interview is just a conversation, then maybe you can reduce some of the fear factor. Ok, maybe that is over-simplifying it, but if you can get [...]
Category: candidates, Human Resources, Interview tips, interviews, Recruitment
CV Writing Tips for maximum impact The current job market is more competitive than ever before. An unfortunate by-product of that is there are a large proportion of candidates who will simply scatter gun their CV at any jobs that look remotely relevant to what they are looking for. A large amount of applications means that recruiters [...]
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