So you've finally taken the plunge - you've gotten additional training, focused on your transferable skills, made connections, sent out your resume and have now landed a job interview. Congratulations! Now that the big day is almost here, you might be wondering about everything you should do in order to perform well in the interview and leave a good first impression.…

Tech professionals frequently find themselves juggling job offers these days. The right skillset draws recruiters in droves to compete for extraordinary tech talent. Out of all their pitches, a few all-too-tempting offers will rise to the top. Though recruiters accept that weighing several options at once is the new norm, there can be considerable fallout when job…

New Industries = New Occupations 

The solar workforce increased 25% in 2016  

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In our ever-changing global economy, recruiting and hiring the right people is a difficult job, but help is at hand from recruitment outsourcing specialists.

Many companies don't have a suitable recruitment infrastructure to meet with increasing demands. Outsourcing all, or part, of your recruitment process saves you money and time and leaves the process to experienced recruitment…

It’s going to happen faster than you think. In fact, it’s already happening.

Most of the innovative HR and recruiting tech companies have Slack apps. If they don’t, they’re most likely designing and building them right now. Including my team at…

Yelp is an American multinational corporation headquartered in …

One of the most sought after skill sets these days is the Data Scientist. Commanding high salaries and high fees, these candidates are worth their weight in gold, but a huge proportion of them are currently being missed.

Each of the hundred odd Analytics-focused Recruiters we’ve worked with tend to start their Data Scientist Boolean search…

The skills you gain on a business and management studies degree will allow you to start contributing to your employer's organisation quickly and effectively. A business and management studies degree prepares you for a career in business, which may stretch across any sector or industry. Your career options are therefore varied. Try to decide on the area you want to…

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While there are many who consider app development to be the exclusive domain of major businesses around the world, there are many small businesses who are learning to embrace the benefits of…

As a recruiter, your job is to attract talent and make those people interested in the offer you make. To some extent, you’re successful at doing that. You present your organization as an attractive place to work at. Somewhere along the hiring process, however, you lose the…

Selecting a  quality applicant tracking system (ATS) that meets your needs is critical for improving your talent acquisition process and results. But if you don’t implement it successfully, even the right ATS technology won’t be much help.  

In this post, we provide five tips that will help you successfully implement a…

I have been a recruiter for a long time and spoken with a lot of my peers about this. In the end, I think Human Resources/Talent Acquisition has messed up the possibility of being partners to many hiring managers. We keep saying hiring managers are our primary customers. There is a difference between customers and partners.

We also all have heard the phrase, “the customer is always right.” Some of us send out hiring manager satisfaction surveys and others have them integrated into the…

Phew, that was close.  Too close for words.  I was almost one of them.  You know the ones that according to a viral video sensation are:

• "Tough to manage"
• "Entitled, narcissistic, self-interested, unfocused and lazy"
• "Addicted to social media and only interested in their own brand on Instagram"

Who are these…

AviationCV.com never stops improving and launched a new feature to its website. From now on, every visitor has an opportunity to write a review about different companies that appear on AviationCV.com. A rating system is going to be beneficial not only for recruiters but also for aviation job seekers, who would like to know which companies are rated the best and looking for pilot jobs,…

Is there any link between perfectionism and productivity? Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? Do you think that perfectionism ever hold you back from performing as you should? Does it in any way affect your productivity?

What…

There’s been a lot of talk about Pre & Post Engagement of applicants, we’ve even heard a lot about pre & post joining goodies. But have you ever thought about other areas where we can implement the Engagement of applicants? If no, then you’ve come to the right place; we’ll be exploring the areas where we can utilise this technique to improve the joining ratio of candidates shortly.

In an attempt to improve the joining ratio of the candidates we…

New Industries = New Occupations

The $21 Billion Industry

Note: This is a follow-up from a previous Did You Know. Read it here.

Whether you support or oppose…

Thinking about going paperless? Look at some of the benefits other companies have been seeing with electronic personnel files and paperless onboarding. 

It's well known that the Human Resources department has the pleasure of managing a serious amount of paper. Over the years, HR professionals…

Disqus is a site that helps you with your website, its content and so much more. Discus is not well known in the staffing world. And not a lot of recruiters try to source there . The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called…

If you’re managing marketing for a recruitment agency that has multiple branch locations, either in the same country or across multiple regions, you could be missing a trick when it comes to the results gained from your LinkedIn Company Page.

Most medium-large recruitment agencies own a myriad of LinkedIn Company Pages, some started by the marketing teams, others created by overzealous recruiters who are keen to stake ownership of their local market. This leads to many issues of…