It’s never easy to find yourself in a situation where a member of your staff is underperforming and not hitting targets. There can often be a myriad of reasons behind underperformance, but pulling the situation back from the brink is not something that always happens successfully.
A business (especially in media...
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Are voucher codes similar to feng shui – ie a complete load of nonsense that will quickly fall from grace? Well, it would seem not, given the floatation valuation of Groupon earlier this year in excess of $20billion. Do I use them to buy my Christmas gifts? Not yet but then I’m not much of a shopper – but I am...
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The market in which I operate – recruitment – and the market into which I recruit – sales and media – have a lot of similarities, one of which is just how important an individual’s contacts book is. To say it’s not what you know it’s who you know is not entirely true, but there can be no doubt that strong,...
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There are three simple things that your interviewer will be considering when looking across that interviewing table.
1) Can you do the job?
2) Do you want the job?
3) Do I like you?
I find that by educating my candidates to think like a hiring manager or a recruiter it actually helps them through the interview...
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