Have you ever sat in an interview and wondered why somebody was asking you a slightly left field question? Although you probably don’t realise it, there may well be a good reason why you are being asked something that seems completely irrelevant at the time. Two tips for spotting trick job interview questions: All too often some questions [...]
Category: candidates, interviews
Tags: Interviews, Recruitment, Recruitment Advice
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
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
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
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
It may sound like a bit of a cliché, but the first impression you make with a potential employer is the most important one. And that first impression will be derived from how you look and what you are wearing. So, dressing to impress at a job interview is imperative, regardless of the work environment. [...]
Category: candidates, Human Resources, interviews, Recruitment
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More great interview advice In the first part of this video we looked at the first part of killer interview preparation tips that could help you clinch that next big job. Making that great first impression at an interview is multi-faceted; from what you are wearing , to the right handshake, maintaining eye contact and [...]
Category: candidates, interviews, Recruitment, Recruitment tips
Tags: Interview help, Interview prep, Interview tips, interview video
In an unstable economy full of double-dips and austerity, many businesses are slowly realising the importance of staff engagement. Employee engagement is a measurable degree of an employee’s positive or negative emotional attachment to their job, colleagues and organisation that profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work. Engagement is broken into three groups [...]
Category: Client, Human Resources, interviews, Recruitment
Tags: client, Leadership, Management, Staff engagement
How to get your job application noticed Remember the days when you would have to wait for Thursday’s regional paper to check to see if there were any jobs you could send your CV to? Perhaps some of you are too young to remember the days before Job Boards and Social Media became the main [...]
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Tags: HR, Interviews, Job applications, Recruitment
We’ve recently posted blogs on how to ensure that your CV hits the right mark. Hopefully you’ve applied some of these tips and optimised your CV and made it to the job interview stage for that position you have always wanted. Unfortunately a lot of people think that the hard work has now been done [...]
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