7 Telephone Interview Tips to Consider
Telephone interviews can help get the ball rolling if there are limitations on timescales or location and can be used to whittle down candidates for face to face interview. Whilst they can get help get things moving, clearly it’s difficult to build rapport and create a good impression as you aren’t able to see the person you are talking to; a lot of synergy in a conversation comes from non-verbal signals. If you are having a telephone interview, you need to work harder to cre
The High Performance Contradiction
It’s a strange facet of human nature that often the better someone appears to do, the easier they make it look and the less their efforts are valued. Perhaps it’s because it is harder to quantify skill, knowledge and background preparation or that we to value the hours put in or the sheer graft rather than actual results. Of course in recruitment this is very familiar. Despite working tirelessly to fill a vacancy for months some clients under value our contribution if their r
The True Cost of Having an Open Vacancy
How do we assess and attempt to quantify the damage an open vacancy does to a business? Many of the costs of recruitment are easy to quantify, e.g. advertising or agency/consultancy fees, although the focus on these tends to blind many people to the very significant internal, often unaccounted for costs. Perhaps the true effect of ignoring or failing to understand the true cost of not recruiting, is having a vacancy open for a significant period of time. This can run into ten
