As Recruiters, a critical part of our varied role is to truly understand our client’s brief and go forth to find the best candidate for the job. Simple, right? Whilst we may think we have found a true gem, the process involves a comprehensive assessment to ensure the candidate possesses the required skillset, experience, and
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Wanting to step up in your career and need a resume to match? Here’s how…
First, I want you to take a look at your resume. What do you see? Do you have…. “great attention to detail”, a “strong work ethic” and “great customer service skills”? Great – you have the same key skills as most other applicants to the job you want. Next, take a look at your responsibilities.
Different Types of Interview Styles
When going into an interview it can be daunting not knowing what questions they will ask, what energy they will bring, or what style of interview it will be. There are a variety of interview styles that each recruiter/hiring manager will use depending on their own personality, and the specific role. So here is a
4 Tips for Top Performing Recruiters
I’m enjoying a successful recruitment career that so far spans 24 years. Wow, typing that number sends my mind back to mid-1998, when I walked into my first recruitment office in Brisbane. I had no real idea of what I was getting myself into. I was just thankful I’d be doing something vaguely associated with
6 Recruitment Hacks To Enhance Your Chances of Hiring in a Tight Labour Market
The last year, in particular, has brought about a number of recruitment challenges and anyone in the industry or trying to hire staff knows just how tough the labour market has been. With the unemployment rate continuing to drop and at the lowest we have seen of 3.4% it is certainly providing organisations ongoing attraction
A Recruiter’s Insight On How To Become More Employable
Since 2003, Optimum has been working with businesses throughout Australia and internationally, for almost 20 years. Our team of highly experienced people professionals, provide end to end recruitment and HR consulting services. In the last year, we helped 591 people into suitable employment and as we continue to develop those relationships, many of our candidates
The Crucial Condition of Candidate Curiosity
Albert Einstein once said in 1952, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Now, you might be pondering what correlation one of times greatest physicists’ self-reflection has to do with an article, suggesting from its title, that curiosity is a desirable trait for candidates to possess? To begin answering that question, we
Are You Losing Money As A Recruiter?
Prejudgements, biases and transference during our screening processes and interviews, pave the way toward leading questions, assumptions and ultimately – the likelihood of a replacement or a refund. Picture this – you receive an application for a data entry role from a lady in her 20’s, who lives 5 minutes away from the job. She
How to ace a job interview?
That is the question that we will all ponder at least once in our life or in today’s workforce, maybe multiple times. But what message do we need to convey at our job interview that will make us stand out against other candidates in today’s competitive job market? In the past, we would have thought