I spoke to a lady in her mid 30s the other day who told me that she had applied for another job outside of the organisation she had been with since she left school. A friend had pointed her to the vacancy advert and said that it was made for her. The lady herself was [...]
I need to declare right now that I have never watched an episode of any series of the Apprentice. I have a vague notion of what goes on because the written media here covers it religiously. It came to something when a radio news report covered the story that the winner of this series lied [...]
Over at the Ask A Manager blog there there is a great post about paying attention to the very first interaction with an organisation when you are keen to apply for a job there. Follow the link right through to the US News website for the whole article but the gist of it is that [...]
In a meeting with the head of HR of an international financial organisation we were discussing the skills that that – and other -organisations need young people to have for them to be an attractive candidate on leaving schools/college/university. He mentioned that for them it is frustrating when a good candidate to just churns out what they [...]
I love this website. Every time I check in there is something else that makes me laugh out loud.
Let me know if you do…… laugh that is – or even if you find someone just perfect for your vacancy!
