May 2013
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2,000 jobs on offer in Hull, but no takers,... →
I see this bullshit in the press a lot - see my previous posting for a direct counterpoint - unfortunately it suits many of those in power, and those who publish the news agenda to peddle articles such as this. It’s easier to say that the unemployed are a bunch of workshy layabouts than look at, and try to address, the real issues.
May 21st
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Work Programme staff struggle to help unemployed... →
Good article showing how it is in many parts of the UK today
May 21st
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May 21st
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Skip the job application, more satisfaction... →
May 20th
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Top ten CV howlers that all senior execs should... →
Even the most senior professionals make mistakes on their CV. Recruitment and talent management expert Vicky Dodd gives her advice for selling yourself well on paper Good solid blog post on CV errors - whilst the article refers to senior execs, it applies to the rest of us too.
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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Top 20 Interview Howlers | →
Here at Recruitment Buzz we have trawled the web and sourced the 20 most incredible candidate blunders. If you thought you had seen and heard it all, take a Some more interview howlers….
May 15th
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May 15th
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Voice recognition lift- eleven ... →
Voice recognition lift- eleven translation and transcription crowdsourced Again, sod all to do with recruitment - but it made me laugh - and we all need a good laugh every now and again!
May 14th
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The plan to kill orangutans →
Indonesia’s endangered orangutans, rhinos and tigers could lose their forest home forever if a new mining backed plan is pushed through, but we can stop it. Click here to find out how: Nothing to do with recruitment…but I wanted to spread this as far as I could
May 14th
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Send & Land →
So. How did you get that job? This looks like an interesting blog - and, as it develops should have a wide range of great examples of how people actually get jobs in their chosen field. Worth following I think
May 14th
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Why do so many people hate their jobs? →
Answer (1 of 185): One reason that many people with good college educations hate their jobs is that they picked a conservative / climb-the-ladder-oriented career when they were young (i.e., right after college) and then they never switched. When they first picked their career at the age of 22: … Some very interesting answers to this on Quora
May 14th
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May 14th
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Another day in the world of recruitment...
In this job you’re either kissing the ceiling or slumped on the floor. It’s not a career for anyone who craves routine, stability, for anyone who wants to know exactly how things are at any one time. As things stand, I have a candidate at final interview on Wednesday. if he does well, I may make a placement on Thursday. I have another candidate at final interview on Friday, and...
May 13th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a...”
– Paulo Coelho
May 12th
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“I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation...”
– Paulo Coelho
May 11th
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A few words on the merits of using Comic Sans in...
no no no no no no no no no no no no…….. Thankyou
May 10th
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The 10 silliest interview answers →
Have you ever given daft interview answers? Read the silliest interview answers and me astounded by just how ridiculous some of the interview answers are. Some good ones in here…
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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What is the most bizarre job interview you have... →
Answer (1 of 204): I was interviewing for a job as an applications engineering manager in a two-year-old Silicon Valley company of about 300 employees in the 1980s. My last stop was an interview with the CEO, an impressive ex-military Israeli entrepreneur. We were in a makeshift lab/office, sitti… Some fantastic stories in here!
May 9th
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May 9th
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Falling asleep on the sofa...
...then waking up and going to bed at 3AM Could the back-ache I am currently suffering from be connected?? Great for a desk-based job sat on a cheap chair staring at a computer screen… Grumpy? Me??….
May 9th
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May 9th
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This is what I'm doing with my time.: "So what do... →
marisabagnato: I’ll never forget the first day I realized I didn’t have a clue. I was fourteen years old and it was the first week of high school. I was looking around at the other ninth graders in my class, and felt a little out of sorts because of what I was overhearing. High school had just started, but… Nice blog post
May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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INFOGRAPHIC: Here's How To REALLY Use LinkedIn →
Linkedin boot camp! This is great
May 7th
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To whom it may concern...
I am writing in response to the vacant Retail Store Logistics Manager position, a post which I feel I am ideally suited, having consolidated ten successful years within customer services in a senior management position. The post would be an ideal progression at this stage in my career. I relish its many challenges which I am confident would enable me to utilise my progressive experience &...
May 7th
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Enough Already →
Interesting article by George Monbiot - it seems (and don’t we all know this anyway in our hearts) that wealth doesn’t buy happiness - so why do we gear our tax systems, our welfare cuts, our economic strategy, around this to the extent that it damages so much else?
May 7th
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“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens...”
– Paulo Coelho Very true in the context of work - if you are seeing patterns that you aren’t happy with, they aren’t going to change of their own accord.
May 7th
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More on DWP cruel and unusual Jobseeker Directions →
Last week I wrote about ‘Maggie’, and the fake psychometric ‘test’ that she’d been ordered to take by the DWP under threat of losing her benefits. That series of posts has been one of the most read… And this, from the blogger who broke the DWP psychometric test story…read this and get angry. 
May 6th
Jobseekers' psychometric test 'is a failure' →
After my post last week about what seemed to be a useless psychometric test being used by jobcentreplus to qualify jobseeker allowance claimants, an interesting followup
May 6th
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself....”
– Paolo Coelho - this week’s quotes on the Unmasked Recruiter
May 6th
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I hate my job, but it pays a lot of money. What... →
Answer (1 of 51): Interesting question. To give you a different perspective, my job/life is spectacular but my bank account is empty. I work 80 hours a week but only a small fraction are paid. It isn’t such a big deal because a. I live an extraordinary life and b. doing what you love eventua… Some good answers to this question on Quora
May 5th
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“The best mind-altering drug is the truth.”
– Lily Tomlin
May 5th
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I'd Rather Be Honest and Lose Than Be Dishonest... →
One of my children recently “cheated.” It was as part of a game where each child walked on hands and feet like crabs. Their task is to get each other “out” by knocking the other Good sentiment for the workplace, I think - as a recruiter I’ve come up against lots of dishonesty, but in the long run it’s better to be honest, irrespective of your own personal values
May 4th
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“Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the...”
– Lily Tomlin
May 4th
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Women's Path To Employment Blog: What's the... →
wpte: No matter what all the advice books and articles say, and no matter how well prepared you are, sometimes in the moment you blurt something out and you immediately know that you were not supposed to say that. But even so, you still got the offer. Submitted to Quora by Richard Waddington
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking,...”
– Lily Tomlin - thought after the local elections in much of the UK that this would be an appropriate quote today!
May 3rd
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On 4 different CVs
Some intriguing comments on CVs from yesterday’s batch of applicants… Due to a domestic dispute took a career break… Interests: Producing young horses… As kitchen assistant I helped prepare 6 different types of sandwiches… As a cleaner it involved, mopping up, sweeping, hovering… That last role must have been particularly demanding!
May 2nd