It was announced this week that Essex County Council plan to offer a job to the runner-up in reality TV series “The Apprentice”. In the show, 16 hopefuls from all walks of life have competed with one another to win a £100,000 a year position within businessman Sir Alan Sugar’s empire. Sugar calls the whole process “the interview from hell”. Essex County Council have indicated that the offer is unconditional although the job and salary remain to be confirmed. In this article we explore whether one can company can benefit from another company’s recruitment process. (more…)
Heather MacDougall describes The Interviewers Resource Pack from Allen Training Associates as her “bible”. Never out of the busy HR Manager’s hands for very long, MacDougall uses The Interviewer’s Resource Pack to fill vacancies for everything from Administrators to Laboratory Attendants to Environmental Stress Physiologists. (more…)
Recruiting new staff can be a headache, whether it involves dealing with employment agencies, placing adverts or organising interviews. In this article we look at 7 top tips to help get all stages of the recruitment process right. (more…)
Most recruitment decisions are made on aptitude — can the candidate DO the job. Most recruitment problems are down to attitude — is the candidate the right person for the job. Such recruitment mistakes can be very costly to growing businesses. This article prepares you to conduct a competency based interview which enables you to hire the right person on both their aptitude AND their attitude.
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Training Magazine conduced a product review of The Interviewer’s Resource Pack in their May 2006 issue. Favourably compared with the DVD on Competency Based Interviewing from Video Arts, The Interviewer’s Resource Pack received a prestigious “five out of five” rating. For the full text of the review, read on.
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An increasing number of employers are using Competency-Based Interviewing techniques. If you apply for a job and are told that the interviewer will use this technique, this article will explain what a Competency Based Interview is, and how you should prepare for it.
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What is the real cost of a recruitment mistake? The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) estimates the average cost of filling a vacancy to be £8,200 when associated labour turnover costs are also taken into account.
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