A good story gets you an interview, expanding convincingly on that
story gets you the post.
I didn’t always want to be a manager let alone a senior manager.
In fact when I started out I thought there were only two types of
manager , good managers rended ineffective by out of touch senior
managers and bad managers tolerated by out of touch senior managers.
Over the years, as my...
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25 Jul 2022 - 08:34
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23 Jun 2021 - 13:14
You know the argument about whether drivers should have to retake
their driving test at regular intervals well the same reasoning
applies to recruitment interviews. The roads have got a lot busier
since you passed your test and over time all of us pick up some bad
driving habits. Well some managers never had any recruitment training
they have just done it ever since they became a...
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23 Jun 2021 - 13:04
There is an unfairness at the heart of the recruitment process which
rewards those who are good at interviews above those who are good at
the job. The surprise is not that the traditional interview results in
some bad appointments it’s that it ever results in some good ones!
HR have tried to shift the emphases away from the focus on the
interview by introducing an Assessment Centre...
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25 Apr 2021 - 05:50
All to often the first time the boss says how much they value your
contribution and appreciate your commitment is at your leaving do!
This seems consistent with a resent survey which found 80% of
employees felt their manager did not give enough feedback. HR are
familiar with the scenario where a manager wishes to terminate an
employees employment due to an unsatisfactory probationary...
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24 Jul 2017 - 13:39
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After the interview comes the waiting. It's the worst part of applying for jobs. I hate it when they say , "we will let you know after the weekend". You spend all weekend going over the interview, did you say the right things, did you come over as someone they could work with, should you have given fuller answers, did you waffle? It's so hard to read the body language...
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06 Sep 2016 - 15:42
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Have you seen that romcom in which the young man inherits his fathers ability to travel back in time, not a long way back only back to a previous incident in their lives. He can go back and change things, not big things like stoping wars , assignations or plan crashes but small things, those embarrassing moment can be erased from history, words you wish you had never spoken could...
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