Posts Tagged ‘candidates’
How many interviews does it take to hire top talent?
At the Australasian Talent Conference last month, I attended an interesting break out session on the future of interviewing and whether assessment would make interviews redundant. The panel made plenty of interesting points in response to questions and comments. Unsurprisingly nobody was predicting the end of interviews any time soon. One of the excellent points…
Read MoreThe reality of recruitment: What should videos say?
There’s an old recruitment joke that’s been doing the rounds for years about a recently deceased HR Manager (insert lawyer, management consultant etc) arriving at the Pearly Gates and being given a tour of Heaven and Hell with a view to choosing where they wish to spend eternity. Heaven was serene and pleasant…
Read MoreThe hidden candidate gold mine: 400,000 part-timers almost available
At the end of last year, the ABS released its Barriers and Incentives to Labour Force Participation, Australia, July 2012 to June 2013 (catalogue 6239.0). This survey revealed some fascinating information about the Australian workforce: Of those 9.4 million people, aged 18 years and over, who did not work full-time, approximately 2.6 million (or 28%) indicated that…
Read MoreTwo gems of wisdom to guide your year ahead
I’ve previously alerted you to the excellent blog of Chris Savage, Wrestling Possums, Chris has started the year with a cracking post, Here’s The Best Advice You Will Get All Year in which he relates two pieces of advice he received recently. Here’s the advice: Take more time, cover less ground and be clear what…
Read MoreWhy candidates decline job offers (and what to do about it)
Every recruiter has had, or will have, the experience of a candidate declining a job offer, contrary to everything the candidate has said or done up until that point. This is a very expensive failure of your recruitment process because at the time of the offer you have completed around 95 per cent of the…
Read MoreWhat’s your candidate strategy?
Anybody that has been to a Greg Savage presentation over the past 18 months or so, wouldn’t have missed one of Greg’s core messages; ‘Not everybody is looking for a job … but everyone is available to change jobs if the right job is presented’. This message was again, front and centre when I watched Greg…
Read MoreHow Law & Order teaches you better interviewing skills
‘Objection! Leading the witness! ‘Objection! Speculation!’ ‘Objection! Relevance?’ These lines are classic courtroom interjections I have heard in movie and TV dramas for as long as I can remember. It’s all designed to create greater dramatic tension. How true is it all to real life in a US courtroom? I don’t know, as I have…
Read MoreDo you know which of your candidates is lying, big time?
Three years ago I wrote an article about the extent of candidate misrepresentation and outright lying that goes on without most recruiters being aware of it. When I am training rookie recruiters one of the topics I cover is the areas that recruiters need to be most alert to in terms of candidates’ mistruths. This…
Read MoreHow will I know (if he has succeeded in the job)?
Back in the (Australian) summer of 1985/86 Whitney Houston released the third single from her self-titled debut album. It was a massive hit, reaching number 2 on the Australian singles chart as well as number 1 on the (US) Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song ‘How Will I Know?’ (and accompanying video) were perfect representations of mid 1980s pop music.…
Read MoreHow committed to your candidates are you REALLY?
I was very fortunate in having my formative years as a recruiter within both Hays in the UK (then called Accountancy Personnel) and subsequently Recruitment Solutions. As with many situations, sometimes it’s only with the benefit of hindsight that I truly appreciated what I had gained. As much as skills development is…
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