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Rule in a Crisis
Monday 28 November 2011
The job-searching landscape has changed immeasurably over the last 10 years. Routes to market are plentiful and more importantly everyone is so much more visible. Technological advancement can take most of the blame of course, whether it’s introductions through email and jobsites/ portals or through networking via social media and mobile platforms. All of these routes are [...]
Personal Branding – What you need to know
Monday 28 November 2011
Kersty Bletso, from Harvey Nash’s CIO Practice recruitment practice, shares her views on what makes for effective personal branding. Personal Branding still has a stigma attached to it that leads people to believe it is about self promotion and bragging. This is not the case. It is a concept that has increasing credibility and touches all [...]
Lead change – don’t be swallowed by it
Monday 28 November 2011
Lead change, don’t be swallowed by it. By Matthew Richardson, Editor, EC-Insight IT has been pervasive in business for a long time, but more recently cloud, social media, mobile computing and “own” devices have become pervasive too. Are senior IT execs going to lead the change or be swallowed by it? It is clear that the sands [...]
Reputation is a precursor to Performance
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Reputation precedes everyone in this market, it can be seen as a precursor to performance. How you conduct yourself throughout the whole recruitment process is extremely important in setting yourself aside from the competition.Recruiters/ hiring companies are sensitive to anything that can prejudice your candidature as every hire is an important and risky one for [...]
Sate Expectations
Monday 3 October 2011
One of the main constituents of my job description, whether previously as a recruiter or currently as a career consultant, was managing expectations. It was essential to manage the client’s expectations on the delivery/ quality side or the expectations of the candidate/ jobseeker in terms of opportunity, timescales etc.. Never has it been so important to [...]
Forget me… Not!
Tuesday 27 September 2011
So you’ve spent hours on your CV, “what shall I include, what shall I cut, but I need that, and I need that… but do I need that…?” and it’s finally ready, looking great and then…? I’ve spoken to so many executives who have put in the hard yards to get their CV ship-shape and then [...]
Repackage your Experience
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Another week goes by and the constant sense of deja vu continues. The seasonal job market appears to be a thing of the past. This summer was no different, not only is the internet causing the seasons to roll into one (as well as global warming?), but the increasing popularity of social networks, mobile smart [...]
Google + 1 = Facebook / LinkedIn
Tuesday 13 September 2011
The traditional CV is still in demand, and to a certain extent always will be but it is just as important to make sure your LinkedIn profile is up-to-date and consistent with all of your online and offline literature. It still amazes me how few executives keep their social media profiles up to date and don’t [...]
Work for your Network
Monday 15 August 2011
I’ve mentioned in previous blogs that the summer is a great chance to open up your network, not everyone goes on holiday all at once but it can be a quiet period which has it’s pros and cons. This week, I wanted to touch on the particular point of speculative (lazy) applications and contact requests. Speculative [...]
Google Plus One Equals Necessary Evil
Monday 18 July 2011
OK. Maybe Evil is a little harsh but having reviewed Google+ and ‘reviewed the reviews’ I believe Google’s latest venture that’s sweeping the globe is an extremely powerful tool that will have a far reaching impact on social networking as we know it. But it could also have negative connotations on your digital footprint and corporate [...]
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