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Send your CV in Word format only

Friday, January 15th, 2010
Use Word for your CV

Use Word for your CV

For job seekers out there currently in the market, please remember to use only a Word.doc version of your CV to send to Recruitment Agencies.

Word is the most commonly used format and can be edited, changed and read easily.

Client Companies also do not like CV’s to be submitted in any other format than Word.

Other formats eg JPeg or PDF do not look as well, do not copy or edit as well and can take up alot of time to translate back in to Word.

 

If it’s not in Word format, your CV will not get the full attention it should as it will go down the priority list over someone else’s who’s CV is in Word and is good to go.

If you are looking for a job - only send your CV in a Word.doc format so it will get immediate attention and be more appealing to a Client Company

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Read the requirements for a job before applying

Friday, January 8th, 2010
Meet the criteria before applying for a job

Meet the criteria before applying for a job

It is always worth reading the essential requirements for a job before applying.

All too often, CV’s are being sent to us by people totally unsuitable for the jobs they are applying for.

There are a number of reasons for this -

  1. Careless
  2. Rushed
  3. Poor attention to detail
  4. Desperate

This creates a bad impression from the outset which is not what you want to give the Recruiter who will be helping you to find your next job.

It also wastes alot of valuable time when a Recruiter gets hit with 20 unsuitable and careless CV submissions before he/she can get to the ones that are suitable.

This may also be the reason why job seekers can feel they are being ignored or not responded to as even the most fantastic Recruiter in the world - all of whom work for JBM!, will eventually lose patience with what are commonly knows as the ‘time wasters’

Applying for a job is a process which requires care, attention and time - never fall in to the trap of just sending your CV out to a multitude of jobs and sites as this will be spotted very quickly as it starts turning up at the same place more than once and will instantly give a bad impression of you

Please always ensure you meet the criteria on the job advert before applying and if you dont - dont apply

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Psychometric Testing

Monday, October 26th, 2009
Psychometric Test

Psychometric Test

Psychometric testing has become an integral part of the recruitment process for many companies.

Want advice on how to do well in them?  The only good advice is to be yourself and answer all questions truthfully.

Psychometric test are designed to find out your strengths, weaknesses, personality traits and any other factors that influence your suitability for the position.  Some of them give very accurate results indeed.

The trap that many fall into when sitting a psychometric test is to try and give the answer that they think will be what is required for the job rather than how they actually feel or think.

A question could be something like:

You are shopping and on leaving the till you realise you have been given too much change. What do you do?

  1. Go back straight away and hand back the money
  2. It depends on the amount and if I am rushing or not
  3. No way am I giving it back, I get charged too much for everything, Finders Keepers.
  4. Donate some of the money to charity
  5. Donate all of the money to charity

If you are thinking about what you should do rather than what you would do you will answer “1, Go back straight away and hand back the money”.

The trouble with that is, if you are not the sort of person that would do that then it will show up in other questions.  You are exceedingly unlikely to do well in a psychometric test in this way.  You will come across as a Walter Mitty character rather than the person you really are.

Have some faith in yourself.  Quite apart from anything else it takes the pressure off you when you are doing these tests.  You can’t do any preparation for them that is worthwhile so try to look at it as fun.  Also, try to get a copy of your results.  They may give you an insight into yourself that will help you in the future.

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Social Networks V Job Boards

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Social Networking-the next step in recruitment evolution

Social Networking-the next step in recruitment evolution

Irish recruitment agencies today are going through an evolutionary period where the next logical choice step in sourcing and contacting candidates is being made. The choice of whether to use job boards or social network sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook  or Twitter is becoming distinctly clearer.

Recently a number of Irish recruitment agencies have chosen to dispense with some of the job boards as a result of poor service provision and an inflexiblity which has led to its own demise and begin to invest further time an effort in the current phenomenon of social network sites which have the added advantage of providing an exponentially larger base of contacts and reference sources.

Job boards which previously had been seen as a vital supplier and contributor to the recruitment industry are growing in perception as largely inflexible and in some case had set themselves up in direct competition to the very companies which they had depended on their very existance for.

Social networks such as LinkedIn in particular are seen more and more as the next logical evolutionary step and are proving their worth as an accessable and flexible approach to both contacting global talent and a useful tool in both business development

It remains to be seen whether the job boards can rise to meet this challenge or whether they will become just another casualty of the downturn.

On their most recent form their prospects are not good. They have alienated some of the most influential recruitment firms in the country and have altered their perception amongst their client base as being not only less competitive and less responsive but in some case as being irrelevent.

The future as it stands so far for job boards is not bright and they may ultimately be regarded as being as redundant a tool of recruitment as the fax or telex.

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Back to school for Ireland’s Recruiters

Monday, October 19th, 2009
Back to school for Irish Recruiters

Back to school for Irish Recruiters

It is very positive news for the Recruitment Industry in Ireland as the National Recruitment Federation (NRF) encourages Ireland’s Recruiters to go back to school.

This Certificate programme had a pilot run in the Summer of 2009 and now they are running their first course for Recruiters.

The content includes  -

Code of Conduct

Client Management

Legislation

Candidate Management

Sales Strategy

Recruitment Process

It takes up minimal time to do this course and is a very positive step towards raising the bar in Irish Recruitment Standards.

Every Recruiter in the country should try to complete this course.

It adds a Quality stamp on each Recruiter and Recruitment Agency with Recruiters all Certified by the NRF

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Job seekers are suffering

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Take the time

Take the time

Good evening

I have recently undertaken a survey on over 1000 job seekers recently in the jobs market here in Ireland to find out how they are feeling and how they are being treated by their Recruitment Agencies.

The results have been disappointing from a Recruitment Agency point of view and have shown strong signs of frustration and a lack of communication between the Recruiter and the job seeker.

The following are the main points of note made by a clear majority of today’s job seekers -

  1. They do not feel they can fully trust their Recruiter as their CV has been sent out to Companies without their knowledge or consent
  2. They are not getting full and comprehensive feedback following an unsuccessful interview
  3. They are feeling the recruiter is treating them as a number to make money out of rather then a person in a vulnerable position who needs a level of care and attention
  4. Recruiters are generally not thorough enough in their searches of suitable jobs and will e mail the odd Job Description of non relevant jobs
  5. Recruiters are not following through on the whole interview process
  6. One of the requests for change was for the Recruiter to act like they care
  7. Not unlike the sale of a car, the recruiter can be attentive in the initial stages, but once a job is offered, they do not follow up with a good luck call or a call after the first week to see how the new job is going

I have been working in the Medical Recrutiment field for over 9 years now and my background is in Nursing, I do care very much for this very vulnerable and currently even more sensitive group of people and if we cannot show this in what we do every day by trying to take that extra step, then we need to be doing a different job.

Recruiters remember, we are changing lives for people and we need to take the time and interest to do that effectively.

For further information on recruitment best practice go to -

www.nrf.ie

The National Recruitment Federation is here to help the Recruitment Industry and it’s job seekers.

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