If recruitment is getting harder how do you get ahead?

With the current recruitment market getting tougher, as FDIN’s recent FDIN Jobs 100 Club survey showed recently, it’s easy to feel that…

There comes a time in the life of every team or company when it realises that one of its best potential sources of quality recruits is its own people.

The idea is that the referrer will, to some extent, pre-select potential hires on the basis of their own working experience, the characteristics that have made themselves successful in the workplace, and have…

A recent survey of 1,000 graduates by recruiters Marketing Minds found that, in preparing for an interview, candidates spend an average of 82 minutes getting showered, dressed, putting on make-up, sorting out their hair and so on. In contrast, they devote just 38 minutes to familiarising themselves with the advertised job and potential employer that they were…

So you are job searching. And in response to one of your proactive enquiries you receive a positive response: “Let’s meet up for a coffee”

That’s nice you think. A chance to talk about the role and opportunity informally and off the record.

WRONG.

You have not been invited for a hazelnut…