Craig Watson's Blog – October 2011 Archive (3)

Ego is not a dirty word...or is it?

Let’s be honest, to be successful in recruitment you need a combination of hard work, industry knowledge, deep networks, hunting instincts, a little luck and a healthy dose of ego…..

Unfortunately, there are no doctors in recruitment – believe me, not a single doctor specializing in recruitment… I know, I typed Recruitment Doctor into Google and all I got was a list of medical recruitment agencies. So then I tried…

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Added by Craig Watson on October 18, 2011 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

If I could turn back time...or recreate history...

Conjures up images of Cher and that song - that charted at number 1 in Australia and Norway, number 3 in the United States and number 6 in the United Kingdom. 

And that music video set on the USS Missouri with Cher straddling a cannon, and wearing a fishnet body stocking…. But that’s not what I want to talk about…

 

I was representing a candidate to the market last week.  A candidate that I thought was very strong… You know the type: a walking…

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Added by Craig Watson on October 12, 2011 at 6:05am — 5 Comments

But.... will it make the boat go faster?

I was in an interesting Client meeting last week, getting feedback on a candidate who had been through 2 interviews and had 3 reference checks taken.

‘Craig,’ the client began, ‘We’re not going to proceed with John….. We just don’t believe he makes the boat go faster…’

Did he just say what I thought he’d said? Make the boat go faster?? Last time I looked John was neither a Mercury 150hp outboard, nor an America’s Cup sailing want-to-be….

My obvious confusion…

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Added by Craig Watson on October 3, 2011 at 6:33pm — 13 Comments

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