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Blog Post: Recruitment's 5 lost trade tools: The social media ‘tsunami’ has hit the Australian recruitment industry’s shores. Of late, I’ve noticed a significant increase in status updates, wall postings and tweets. Blogs have crept into…; Added by Alban at 6:18pm on January 26, 2011

Blog Post: Hike Group Chat - How to attract Passive Talent?: Attracting Passive Talent is simple enough with a readymade vast pool of connections available online. Making sure you attract these candidates isn’t that simple. This is because of a few changes…; Added by Sourcing Adda at 1:19am on January 14, 2016

Blog Post: Hobbies: I'm tired of hobbies - don't get me wrong, they're great, and I have a few (though not as many now that I have a toddler). I appreciate that they help to maintain our sanity, and they make us more…; Added by Jonathan McLeod at 2:32pm on April 23, 2009

Topic: Just a short rant on a Friday: like there are some common courtesies that just shouldn't be forgotten. I think that this is probably my biggest pet peeve: Why, why, why do people not call back/email back when they say they will? If you are turning down my offer, need more time, someone else has backed you up or you just really are not interested in continuing whatever it is that we have been discussing, I rather know! To leave someone high and dry in a B2B situation is just as bad as deserting a candidate in the middle of negotiations. Maybe I, despite my age, am too old fashioned. I just think that it takes two seconds to write an email to say you need more time, you're not interested, or xyz other reason that you haven't done whatever it is you said you would! Feel free to share your favourite pet peeves on this lovely (well it is lovely here...) Friday! Have a great weekend!…; Added by Helen Burbank (Appleby) at 10:28am on October 7, 2011

Comment on: Topic 'Best Behavioral Interview Questions': no right or wrong.Petra Nelson said: We are a software company so I have a few questions that seem to be relaible and valid: As software developers, our team is constantly challenged to solve problems - good dev's love this element of intellectual challenge. So we ask the following: "Tell us about a time when you were stumped by a technical problem. What was the issue, what was your response and what was the outcome". Our favourite response is when someone's eyes light up and answer - "Yesterday!" and then proceed to tell us about a really gnarly code issue that they had to untangle by using a combo of the following: Google, asking a domain expert, get a white board and a colleague and talk it out, prototype a solution etc. We love these people and there is a very high correlation between those who give an answer like this and our best developers! …; Added by Tiffany Branch at 9:23am on November 7, 2012

Blog Post: Decision making and traditional HR: Anyone who has read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell knows that what we think we know about how good decisions are made is mostly wrong. For most of the past sixty or so years the 'scientific' method has…; Added by Kim Bechtel at 2:09pm on May 6, 2010

Blog Post: How can you prepare yourself for student life?: Freshers events fill your evenings and sleep will fill your days, but as much as the social aspect will contribute to an unbelievably quick first semester, the reason you’re there soon establishes…; Added by Alice Turnbull at 9:23am on August 28, 2019

Comment on: Blog Post 'The champion without the championship mindset': , as I mentioned, he figured out how to win when he stepped outside his comfort zone but he refused to keep doing what worked and instead reverted back to what he was doing in the first set which ultimately led to his loss. He did not believe that he can beat this guy. Otherwise physically he was beating him in the second set. Secondly he was not playing an exceptional player such as Rafa. Yes Novak is good but nowhere as good as Federer and during the game it was evident that Federer was mentally beaten. What I have mentioned above is a metaphor. In the field of sales, obviously we dont play tennis to win trophies but rather make sales, make placements, help companies to meet their goals and help people to find their dream job all of which is an achievement in itself. We may not be a champion in the way Federer is but the concept is that to be good at something and always be on top of your game you need to believe that you are better. Similar to Tennis tactics are important but they play a much smaller part as compared to the mindset of the person that is playing the game.…; Added by Navid Sabetian at 5:33pm on January 28, 2011

Blog Post: All Tomorrow’s Parties – what TruLondon and Unconferences mean to me: The first time I read about unconferences three words sprang to mind – ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’

Those three words mean two things to me (and no doubt a lot of other rock fans) – an iconic…; Added by Mervyn Dinnen at 6:36pm on February 3, 2010

Comment on: Blog Post 'Imagine No Recruiters...I Wonder If You Can?': who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up. As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean. He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?" The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean." "I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man. To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die." Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one."…; Added by Randy Levinson at 3:00pm on April 2, 2010