The quality of your essay helps the admission officers decide on who you are and additionally the type of writing skills you have. Though you have your test scores and grades to show your skills, the essay is a vital part that reveals more information about you. Here are some tips to help you write the best essay.

1. Prepare well: The hardest part of the essay…

Mr Client,

I apologise in advance for the somewhat generic greeting, but it’s been ingrained in me from way back when I first got into recruitment.

I still remember all the role-plays and all the training manuals. Every scenario seemed to involve an interaction with “Mr Client”. Hopefully they’ve all been updated by now to…

You’ve spent all this time crafting your job listings and it’s published live on the web. Congratulations. How do you begin promoting it? Driving traffic to your job listings begins with a strategy because, let’s face it, your job listings are not going to engage great candidates if no candidates can find it. You can’t have a party if you don’t send invitations. Here are 11 free and paid sources from 5 different acquisition channels to get you started.…

… And you didn’t have much time to begin with. We’ve broken it down for you in this infographic: there are 24 hours in a day, doctors recommend we get 8 hours of sleep per night and the typical workday is 8 hours. That leaves 8 hours of free time. Unfortunately for most of the working population, we spend more than the 8 hours at work, get less than the recommended 8 hours of sleep and feel like 24 hours just isn’t enough. For corporate professionals, there are numerous…

A 2012 study by TheLadders revealed that Recruiters spend 6 seconds reviewing a resume. If it takes that little time to review qualifications, how much time…

There are a few things that can kill a business. Some bad publicity. A defective part. A lawsuit.

And the unstructured job interview.

There have been several in-depth studies on unstructured job interviews, and most of them say the same thing: they are bad predictors of performance and are subject to bias. That means the companies…

Why won't this phone just recruit for me?

Our resident technology expert and connoisseur of all things Cajun, Doug Horn, recently wrote an insightful blog on whether technology is…

Take No Prisoners is a free weekly memo from Scott Wintrip that explores how Radical Accountability prospers companies and changes lives. Instead of taking people hostage with outdated, heavy-handed, and ineffective methods of management, measurement, and motivation, Radical Accountability focuses on creating an unwavering responsibility for getting what matters most done.

Many professionals want to be at the advanced level, preferring to take part in processes or…

Despite the Becky Hammon hire, the glass ceiling still exists. Credit: Robert Douglass

Tuesday, Becky Hammon, a WNBA legend, made history when the…

It appears that we are now entering a candidate-driven market in BOTH the direct hire AND contract staffing worlds.  As candidates increasingly choose contract staffing as a lifestyle, recruiters are becoming more concerned…

How to be Successful in Recruitment Part 10

What Recruitment Can Learn From The Military

I once asked an ex-special forces solder, who had served in some of the roughest parts of the world, what they would advise when you are trying…

With popular TV shows such as Suits and Law & Order glamorising the lifestyle of those in the legal sector, it’s not hard to see why so many people are opting to study law over other industries. While the opportunity to work in law may initially have been a pipedream for some, the chance to study a law degree is becoming more accessible; with several law firms offering work experience and open days to encourage prospective lawyers to consider a legal…

I recently shared data on gender diversity in STEM (science, tech, engineering, and mathematics) jobs. This time, I'm examining ethnic diversity for these fields. How ethnically diverse is US's STEM candidate supply? Below are the percentages of qualified people in the US workforce for each STEM field, broken down by ethnicity.

Ethnic Breakdown of…

There are thousands of ways companies hire. Some have exceptionally-structured processes where everything is tracked and recorded and others have people come in and a hiring manager will “trust their gut.”

Interested, we wanted to find some of the most unique hiring processes at some of the largest companies in America.

The following five companies are all among…

Jerry Berg decided that the best way to deal with a layoff was to make a 20 minute video ( http://bit.ly/1oouacX ) lamenting how terrible it is to be laid off after 15 years at Microsoft. I personally feel for him as I’ve been laid off twice since the 2008 financial crisis. While his emotions are understandable, putting them out there in a public video was a bad choice.

This is…

Listen to most organizational development professionals and they will tell you that the key to organizational change is to communicate, communicate and then to communicate again. I would pose another question, and that is how are you communicating the message and how is it being received? Are your messages being received in the context you intended them to be…

Thousands of U.S. companies rely on the services of professional recruiting firms to fill employment needs. Some companies choose not to work with recruiters for various reasons – in house HR, specificity, budgeting concerns – but there are plenty more good reasons to bring in a professional recruiting team to help with staffing needs.



Here are a few instances your business should consider using a recruiter to help meet its hiring…

Don't you just love the feeling of closing a direct hire placement? That big placement fee reminds you that all the work you put into your placements is worth it.  Maybe you even splurge and celebrate with a fillet mignon dinner.

But what happens when the big placement fee runs out? Do you worry about when the next one will come? Do you start cutting back and…

The look and feel of your company culture isn’t always what the experts tell us it’s supposed to be like. It doesn’t necessarily have our defined values at the core, dictating the hiring and decision-making processes, which are based off of business goals. There is an unwritten, unintentional part of company culture that will often have a lot more pull in how your organization’s teams are crafted.

PRETTY BIRD SYNDROME

Many organizations have…

Different people are born to do different things. Some have an aptitude for selling, some for communication, and yet others for administering medication. Then there are some, who are born curious. Curious about how things work. Those children you see who aren’t just satisfied with owning and playing with a remote controlled car – they open it up, take it apart, and try to put it back together. It’s those kids that grow up to be more technologically inclined than the rest. A lot of people…