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Video interviewing is not a new concept, but is it an underutilised recruitment tool? In times of urgency, where pressures to cut costs are ever increasing, a video interview allows a recruiter a quick and cost effective means to filter...

Most organisations have an internal recruitment system in place. The job posting policy however is generally passive and doesn’t always attract the best candidate. It often fails because it relies on employee initiative alone. Intraplacement on the other hand involves...

Social media has opened up new opportunities for the world of recruitment. Where we once placed an advert in the local paper, reaching only those within our jurisdiction, we can now display a job role on our social media outlets...

The setting in which you conduct an interview, as well as how you arrange the scene, can have a significant influence on the outcome. In fact, the role you are interviewing for may very well influence that setup. Before you...

Most would agree that the need to fill a position quickly is the number one reason for a bad hire. Yet if weighing up the pros and cons of taking on a bad recruit, compared to leaving the position open,...

How highly a cover letter is rated generally depends on the recipient. That doesn’t make it at all easy to know if your cover letter is going to play a role in landing you the job or not. Since you...

Millennial (also known as the Millennial Generation, Generation Y or Gen Y): The democratic cohort following Gen X, born from 1980 to 2000. If you don’t already recognise a Gen Y candidate then you better get up to date, and...

I’m sure you’ve all heard a tale or two, or even experienced this firsthand, where an employer did not deliver on what they promised in the job interview. Frustrating and disheartening, employees who feel they have been lied to feel...

Mapping your career is not something you will simply sit down to complete once with your careers teacher in year 10. No, it is a plan that will continually evolve and take on new direction as your professional aspirations grow...

It’s not just The Voice that recognises the advantages of recruiting blind, organisations across the globe are now employing this very type of strategy to overcome unconscious bias in their recruitment methods. Recruiting blind is a little like dating in...