Bring “joy” to your recruiting team!

Posted by admin, January-25-2012

Sir Clive Woodward said that you get the performance that you demand from your team, buts it’s fair to say you also have to give them the tools to perform. For in-house recruitment teams under pressure to deliver there can be no argument that automation vastly improves your chances of performing your function better, without [...]

Clever or plain baffling?

Posted by Nesreen Bakheit, January-17-2012

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a plethora of articles commenting on interview questions, with comments ranging from “What’s the point of these wacky questions” to observers who say that if corporate giants such as Google, who are notorious for asking questions such as “you are shrunk to the height of a [...]

Hooray for the weather change… but what to wear to work?

Posted by admin, July-8-2010

Hooray for the weather change. If only to provide a new angle for my awkward silence-filling office lift small talk. After two weeks: ‘Phew, hot outside isn’t it?’ was getting a bit old. Now I can quip ‘Phew, not so hot outside anymore is it?’ before the lift doors sigh open at my floor. Though [...]

Interview Dressing: How to Dress to Impress

Posted by admin, June-3-2010

Firstly, this isn’t about fashion. It’s not about stunning your potential employer with the latest AW10 handbag, an on-trend Bouclé jacket or shoulder pads that defy gravity. In 99% of cases they really won’t care. It’s more about finding a balance between dull conservatism and looking like you’ve been styled by a blind charity shop worker.

Lucy Pavia, author of girluninterrupted shares her list of dos & don’ts when looking for your first job

Posted by Fran, May-17-2010

Lucy Pavia – author of www.girluniterrupted.co.uk shares her list of dos & don’ts when looking for your first job

As a class of 2008 graduate, arriving into the working world felt a bit like turning up uninvited to a party; the reception was frosty and no-one offered me a drink. Undeterred (and very stupid) I chose to follow a career in magazine journalism, and after two years, many tears, an incident with a pug and 467 Starbucks runs, here is what I’ve learned: