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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Check Your Water
When you have an interview organised, the first thing that should come to your mind will be the usual elements of preparation such as, researching the company, memorising who you are meeting and what their position is.
If you are super organised perhaps even a list of questions you may have to direct back to the interviewer!
One other vital consideration for every interview is also the most essential part of interview preparation - getting there? Aside from all the above preparations before an interview, the most essential point is the navigation!
- Do you know where the company is based?
- Do you have the building routed/ entered into your Sat Nav?
- Have you timed the journey so you will be there early?
One final consideration - Is your car in working order?! Have you checked the oil, water and the petrol?
Obvious as it sounds, these kind of blips can occur!
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
The Application
Applying for the right job is paramount in this day and age. It is an employer’s market right now so your application success depends on a variety of moves.
A few tips to point you in the right direction!
The Application
- Make sure you quote the job reference yes, but more importantly the Job Title!
- Read the Job Spec. It is imperative you are qualified to do the job - whether educationally or years experience. Some people require both! Most importantly, if you can’t do the job don’t apply for it! It really won’t be the right job for you.
- The questions. Answer the questions given at the end of the job before you click send. It saves a lot of time so be nice to the kind people receiving your application?
The Cover Sheet/ Email:
- Let the person receiving your mail know why you are applying. They really do read it, so give a small synopsis of yourself right and your working experience.
The CV
- If you are happy with it, attach it!
The Send Button
- Does exactly what it says on the tin!
Tags: application, application tips, Applying for jobs, CV, employer, job applications, job specs, Jobs, recruitment, right job, sending CVs, work, Work Experience
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Are you what they want?
Less haste-more speed as the saying goes. I recently received over a dozen CV’s from candidates applying for jobs that they were quiet obviously not qualified to do, both in terms of experience and qualifications. After the tenth CV I became slightly paranoid and read my job descriptions again and realised they were correct and more than that were very specific in what I required from applicants.
For example, I was in one instance looking for a Degree Qualified Production Manager or Manufacturing Engineer with experience of Injection Moulded Medical Devices. What I received was a Production Manager with none of the other attributes, no degree, no medical device experience and no moulding experience?
Obviously the candidate was not suitable and was informed of this fact. That didnt help me as both his and my time was wasted.
This made me realise that the candidates were not or could not have been reading the job specification properly or fully before application or they would have realised this and not wasted their time.
Granted these are difficult times and people are frantically trying to find new jobs because of urgent financial commitments and they are in difficult situations, However that also means their time is even more valuable and probably better spent researching where suitable jobs are or by presenting their skills correctly and sending their CV’s to employers or Agencies that have positions that match their skills and experience
Consider this; if a candidate replies to a live requirement immediately that they are suitable for, if they are the first applicant they stand psychologically 1st in line for the job with the employer as that employer may require that person immediately and lean strongly towards the first suitably qualified candidate.
At the very least a requirement may be closing out and the applicant may have missed out on a closing application date whilst wasting time applying to an unsuitable post.
Applying to a requirement you dont suit means you are looking in the wrong direction at the wrong time and you may miss out to someone else who has taken their time selecting a suitable job and as a result won out ahead of you simply because they took the time to read the Job specification.
Tags: Agency, Applicant, CV, employer, Experienced, Injection Moulded, job specification, Manufacturing Manager, Medical Devices, Production Manager, Qualified, Read the Job Specification, Suitable
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
The importance of Time Keeping
Time and good time keeping is crucial! In todays employment market where being on time and meeting people who have even less time than you is a trait not to be underestimated or undervalued. Your next prospective employer may decide on meeting you again at second interview purely on the basis of your ability to meet at the agreed interview time. If you can’t do that what else can you not do?
Stephen Hawking wrote a Brief History of Time; if you get your time keeping wrong in todays employment climate your career prospects could be even briefer.
Why not visit our interview tips page.
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
I was talking to a Medical Sales Candidate of mine who has recently attended interviews with three Medical companies. I asked him how he got on and he told me the following:
1) the first Medical company who brought him back for second interview told him that he was too expensive and on that basis could not hire him
2) the second Medical company who also called him back for second interview told him that he was far too experienced for the job and that he would get bored
3) the third Medical company is yet to come back to him with feedback. His first interview was a week ago
I think it is very imprtant that the Employer is very frank with the jobseeker at first interview and highlights the unsuitability of a candidate after the interview is complete A candidate shoould not be called back for second interview unless he/she is a strong contender for the posiiton
As Candidates are very vulerable in the market at the moment, I think the Employer, like the Recruitment Agency should guide the Candidate gently in the recruitment process.
By all means, the Candidate needs a helping hand to find the next suitable position, but let that hand be a warm and caring one. Let’s not fill the Candidate with false expectations at interview stage but rather with practical, frank and helpful advice.
That is what the jobseeker will be thankful for in the future.
Tags: Candidates, employer, first interview, Interview, interview stage, jobseeker, Medical companies, medical sales, recruitment agency, recruitment process, second interview
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
The Employee Employer relationship has come full circle. I remember only a year ago where it was all about Employee’s rights and Employee fair practice in the workplace. It was the rule of thumb to get your salary increase and annual bonus. It was commonplace to air any grievances you had with your colleagues or Managers with your HR Manager.
It was normal to challenge any policy or procedure an Employee was unhappy with. It was easy to change jobs for a higher salary and to get it. There were more jobs available than candidates and it was they who were in the driving seat.
Well, that has all changed now. The Employer is back in the driving seat and dictates what an Employee should or not be paid and if he/she will have continous employment or be made redundant. There is a greater supply of Candidates in the marketplace and the Employer now has the pick of the crop and at a very competitive price.
In these recessionary times, it is no longer the ‘luck of the Irish’, but the luck of the Irish Employer!
Tags: bonus, Candidates, employee, employer, employment, grievance, HR Manager, Jobs, policy, procedure, Recession, redundant, salary, salary increase
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