Having worked primarily in big business in my early career, I was surprised when I started working with SME’s to find how many describe their culture as being like a ‘family’. The ‘family culture’ obviously has different meanings in each workplace, but the consistent desired values I have seen are: everyone has a personal connection […]
Month: October 2016
Surviving job rejection as an internal candidate
Applying for a job and being rejected is hard enough at the best of times but when you are an internal applicant and miss out on the job it’s not just hard, it becomes a whole different ball game. However, there can be light at the end of the tunnel if you handle the experience […]
The Position Description – your roadmap to recruitment success
How important and valuable is a Position Description when it comes to recruiting? Many businesses under estimate the importance and value of the position description and in many small to medium organisations, they don’t even exist. When it comes to recruiting, the naïve recruiter or hiring manager thinks that their recruitment process centres around running […]
5 Knee-jerk reactions to avoid when recruiting in haste
An employee has resigned and now it is panic stations. You’ve been given a 2 week or maybe even a 4 week notice period but you know from past experience that running a recruitment process takes time. Time you really don’t have. Your team are freaking out; they’re concerned about who is going to carry […]
