Tag: CVs
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Unfurling the Freak Flypaper
Earlier this year, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser launched a recruitment campaign ‘seeking weirdos and misfits’. He’s patently never worked in the recruitment sector, because that is indeed longhand for ‘launched a recruitment campaign’. Every campaign attracts weirdos and misfits – it’s one of the rules. The modus operandi of the switched-on is that such weirdness…
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The 6-Day War on Talent
Another little stunt being pulled out of the goody bag by volume recruiters is the job filled email. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord! At least they are getting back to candidates with something. And the ‘job filled’ email has been around some time, used mainly for ongoing volume campaigns when the hiring quota has been reached,…
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The War for Talent (continued)
As I mention in Freaking Hired! this is a beauty. Or rather the absurdity of its conceptual appropriation by mainstream recruitment bosses is a beauty. I’m sure that the recruiter bigwigs neck back some double comfort from the mention of McKinsey and the War concept. And nothing like a heavy blast of reflected glory from…
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The Pyramidas Touch
Just when you think the world of recruitment cannot stoop any lower, some determined hacks find a way to thwart your optimism. In Freaking Hired!, I mentioned the commercial methodology of aggregators. The job boards that use bots to scrape job ads to post on their own sites, with subsequent applications proving their concept, which…
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