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When you were still at school or college, do you remember getting advice on those first job interviews from teachers, careers advisors or your parents? That may feel like a long time ago, and of course, now you work in recruitment you are pretty well versed in interviewing. However, some of those basic tips actually stay relevant, even though industries have changed and the people you are trying to place probably aren’t awkward 17 year olds who’ve borrowed a suit off of their dad!Here are three interview tips you might have heard before you

Summer is coming up, and that means lots of great options for entertaining clients or prospects. One thing that often is a huge favourite for client entertainment is arranging tickets for sporting events, or, if you are especially keen to impress, corporate hospitality passes. This can be a good choice because most people like going to live sport, even if they are not an avid fan of the event in question, and it can give you a chance to offer them a unique experience that also provides plenty of time for casually chatting, eating and drinkin

Often because of a skills gap in the sector you recruit in, it can be necessary look further afield for suitable candidates. There are often people in different professions who would be interested in relocating for the right opportunity, or who are actively looking to do just that. In some fields, like IT and medicine, it is fairly normal to consider overseas applicants, but there are some extra things to consider when you are talking to candidates tha

Whether you are a new agency trying to put your name out there, or an established, well known recruitment business, how you build and maintain awareness of your brand, and how consistent your brand messaging is is really important. Branding is not just about helping people remember who you are, but about giving a shorthand that reminds people of what you do, what you stand for, and what kind of ‘personality’ you have as an agency.

Branding is Not Just About Your Logo
Creating a true brand is something that can p

As a recruiter, you see so many CVs you feel like you know exactly what works and what doesn’t, and may even spend some time tweaking candidate CVs to better represent them to the clients whose preferences you know well. Just like the owner of the CV, you are most concerned with making sure the experience that shows that they meet the requirements in the job spec is clear, and that the CV marks them out as well worth interviewing for the job.
It goes without saying that for any roles after entry level, the professional history section of

When you are a recruitment or staffing agency, you know far more about hiring, interviewing and evaluating candidates than the average business, however there are still some mistakes you can make when it comes to hiring your own recruits. When you are recruiting for recruiters, you are usually dealing with people who also know recruitment very well, so their expectations are often higher than the average job candidate you place in roles with other companies – so to

When you start talking to potential candidates about a vacancy you have just started trying to recruit for, chances are most of the people you speak to didn’t apply for the role or if they did, they did so through a site like JobServe, without explicitly knowing the agency the job was posted by. Some of these people will come to know you quite well as they go through the interview process, receiving feedback and (hopefully) doing their contract negotiations through you when they are offered the job.

Others may not be suitable for or in

Recruitment is an industry almost as old as employment itself, it is one that has benefitted significantly from the technological advancements of the ‘information age’ – or ‘the last two decades’ if we’re going to use a less cheesy term for it. Because recruitment is all about people, the changes new technology has made to how we connect, communicate, and make information available to the world have revolutionised how we do things.

So, a client has just given confirmation that you can go ahead and start looking for candidates for a nice position. It’s time to start finding people who look like they might fit the bill. You have a recruitment database full of information about different people, which you can trawl to look for relevant people, and of course, all those CVs on the job sites you use.
This is something you do all the time, and you know it is a numbers game – of the people who haven’t specifically applied for this position, the vast majority of the people y

Social media is a massive part of life these days, with a lot of people finding out breaking news first from their Twitter feeds, and using social networks like Facebook as their primary means of connecting with everyone from their family and closest friends to acquaintances they haven’t seen in years – but who may be useful to know someday.