Adverts not job descriptions please
One of the most common mistakes that companies (and agencies) make when recruiting is advertising the job description itself as the job, rather than write an appealing bespoke advert. Job descriptions are not designed to sell you the job, they are there to explain the function of the job, so why do so many companies […]
Blood Boilers
There is one aspect of this candidate driven market at the moment that particularly makes my blood boil - the counter offer!!Anyone involved in the recruitment process will understand how frustrating the ‘counter offer’ is. Let me paint the typical scenario….. the employee called Bob has decided to leave his employer Tight Git Ltd for […]
Feed all you can- RSS is here to stay.
Having just read the posting entitled RSS Vs Multiposting by Colin Minto I am a little confused by his comments that he makes. Peter Gold obviously knows what he is talking about in his post regarding RSS as he uses it with clients regularly. Dan McGuire on his Death of Broadbean post obviously hates the […]
Candidate or Employee?
I had the pleasure this last week of taking part in a Lou Adler- the recruitment guru - webinar, and in it he refers to top talent as employees NOT candidates. You look at people as future employees and you will recruit better people, rather than treating people as ‘transactional’candidates. How true that is, but […]
Space Hoppers or Job Hoppers?
A few years ago, the ideal job was one where an employee could stay for their entire career, pick up a pension and then retire. For some people that is still the case, but the move to a more fluid employment market is now becoming the norm as we all know.However, will we as recruiters […]
Welcome to my blog!
Hi there recruitment blogging world, let me introduce myself to you all. My name is Andy Headworth and I have had the pleasure of working in the wonderful world of recruitment for nearly 20 years across a number of different industries. I own a specialist recruitment company but more recently have taken a slight change […]
