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Biggest rise in Executive Jobs for 3 years
Monday 16 August 2010
The Office for National Statistics released it’s monthly jobs figures last week and unemployment is down again with the number of vacancies for the three months to July 2010, up 9,000 over the quarter. Private sector recruitment has been the main driver with vacancies increasing by the highest rate since 2007. These figures are allied with our [...]
Can’t see the wood for the p’s and q’s and t’s and…
Monday 9 August 2010
As news spreads that public sector redundancies are set to continue apace, there is an even greater need to set yourself aside from the competition and make sure you deliver a clear, concise and hard hitting message to your audience. Our team consults on 100s of CVs every month and, of those, at least 50% are [...]
Agent provocateur – choose your representatives wisely
Monday 2 August 2010
I stumbled across a discussion forum this week which posed the question of whether candidates cared who represented them, their working practices, understanding of their market and ethics etc… I was quite surprised by some of the executives responses. One in particular commented in a matter of fact manner “I don’t care who they are if [...]
Summer Sunshine Illuminates Executive Jobs Market
Monday 26 July 2010
I’ve not known a July like it. We have found an unprecedented amount of new jobs in the market this Summer. There has been a 48% increase in executive jobs being advertised on executive-i.com compared to Summer 2009. In what is a seasonally slow period for jobseekers (the job traffic normally slows by around 20%) we have [...]
Don’t take it personally, you’re not alone…
Monday 19 July 2010
Last week the Office of National Statistics announced that unemployment had decreased by 34,000 in the 3 months to May. Good news, however on closer inspection it appears that long term unemployment had increased substantially by 48% over the year to 787,000 in the same period. A couple of weeks back I spoke to an executive who [...]
Toe the line to shine…
Monday 12 July 2010
It’s imperative to make sure you take nothing for granted in this market. Whilst you don’t want to overload your audience with every minutiae of detail about every working hour of experience you don’t want to miss any key triggers. That’s why it’s important to do as much detective work as possible about the company you’re applying [...]
First impressions endure in this market…
Monday 5 July 2010
I received an email from a jobseeker last week that was very cold, lacked soul and had formatting and grammatical errors throughout. It turns out that this executive had rushed the email – they were actually a high profile executive with excellent experience at board level however their introduction may not be received by everyone, in [...]
Don’t Speculate just to Accumulate
Monday 28 June 2010
Leading on from last weeks blog I wanted to touch on the particular point of speculative applications, raised during a consult earlier today. Speculative applications are only advisable if they are qualified, which really means you should try and make them appear as unspeculative as possible! All I’d point out is that a recruiter is much more [...]
Direct applications an Advert for success
Monday 21 June 2010
Whilst conducting an executive consult last week, the subject came up of direct enquiries and applications to hiring companies (as opposed to recruiters). My consult was wondering whether to pursue this channel proactively or to stick with only applying to specific positions advertised through various media. In fact, we have found that corporates are advertising more positions [...]
Work your network to network your work
Monday 14 June 2010
I speak to numerous senior executives every week and there is often a common underlying frustration that they all have… lack of feedback. Recruiters are habitually bad at getting back in touch with candidates to let them know they have been unsuccessful in their application. Of course this can be the nature of the beast with [...]
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