Posts Tagged ‘job description’
Sending resumes to match emailed job specs is a job for a monkey
Have you ever had a job spec emailed to you with an accompanying email message along the lines of ‘can you have a look on your database and send me across any suitable resumes’? I suspect all of us, at some stage in our lives as an agency (or even internal) recruiter, has had this…
Read MoreCEO recruitment is broken and no solution in sight
Continuing my search to understand what underlies the decision making mistakes made by boards of large companies, I turned to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), the preeminent educational body for public, private, and not-for-profit company directors in Australia. I collected a copy of the AICD Professional Development Handbook (July 2014 to June 2015)…
Read MoreHow fools recruit: ‘I’ll know them when I meet them’
No matter how far we think Australian businesses have come with respect to recruitment and employment practices, there are always plenty of reminders that old habits die hard. One of these old habits is the classic client response to a recruiter who requests a job description; ‘I don’t need a job description, I’ll know them…
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