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Love the one you’re with

Lynn Tulip — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000

“If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with” Lyrics from the Crosby Stills & Nash hit early 70s hit, written by Stephen Stills and recently reissued and sung by Will Young Fond memories of this song first time round. I was a real CSN (&Y) fan. I truly love [...]

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Be a better employer – Diversity Deals #Business Please RT

Sarah Arrow — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:00:35 +0000

Pin It Continuing our cyber Monday deals, with our own special Birds flavouring – great value consultation calls that do a good deed as well as addressing diversity. In this post we talk about boosting your business through diversity and Jane Hatton is the woman to help you… 30 minute telephone consultation about how diversity [...]

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Can Google+ support your job search?

Lynn Tulip — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:00:20 +0000

Pin It Google+ and social media as part of your Job Search Google+ is now up and running. Far from being the newbie on the block it is fast catching up with a whole load of ideas on how to job search. As with Facebook, Twittter and LinkedIn it has many characteristics that are about [...]

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Conducting Interviews

Lynn Tulip — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:00:04 +0000

Pin It Conducting interviews for recruitment can be a sticky task Interviews that are unplanned can place your organisation at risk Some tips on running interviews: Interviews should be conducted in relaxed, comfortable surroundings, without interruption and in a manner that enables the candidate to give the best account of themselves. Following introductions, the structure [...]

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Social Media and the perfect CV / Resume

Lynn Tulip — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:00:48 +0000

TOP TIPS TO PERFECT AN ONLINE CV / RESUME IN SYNC WITH SOCIAL MEDIA Why are you writing your CV / Resume? And what’s the purpose of your CV / Resume? How does it align with your social media activities? You might think that your objective of the CV / Resume is to land you [...]

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Getting the job application right

Lynn Tulip — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:00:39 +0000

As far as a job application goes, submitting a good one can be a real conundrum. Of course, you are keen to find new or alternative employment and you are gathering as much information as you can about yourself, where you want to work, what you want to do and what skills and expertise you [...]

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Avoid making mistakes in #recruitment

Lynn Tulip — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:00:51 +0000

Pin It Recruitment is not as easy as you think. If someone leaves or you have overworked employees, a simple solution could be to recruit someone as quickly as possible and to get them in role soonest. Sadly there TWO COMMON MISTAKES in recruitment which leave you open to making disastrous decisions which are both costly [...]

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The craziest question you have ever been asked at an interview is?

Lynn Tulip — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Pin It This post relates to an article written for JobMob entitiled Tricky Job Interview Questions and Answers. It’s the $5K Guest Blogging Contest . Go and take a look and then come back and read the rest of the post (it makes no sense otherwise ) Sarah, our esteemed editor suggested I write an [...]

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To have or to have not? A big business question

Lynn Tulip — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:00:18 +0000

I’m talking critical employability skills here. Much has been said today about the numbers of unemployed young people and how, with less vacancies, there are fewer prospects for finding work of any kind. Regardless of Osborne’s plan for apprenticeships there are still some massive opportunities around. Employers are recruiting; there are many who need and [...]

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Does size matter?

Sarah Arrow — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:00:42 +0000

Pin It A guest blog from http://www.theexpgroup.com/blog/ Discrimination in the workplace due to gender, race, religion or sexual preference is not only unethical but is also illegal in most countries. Importantly though if an organisation does undertake discriminatory activities in for example deciding not to recruit certain people it can miss out on good quality [...]

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