My name is Simon Pitney and I will be blogging on all things Media, mostly on Mondays. I will be drawing parallels between the sexy industry we work in and some of the things that are currently impacting my life – most notably working in the recruitment industry, the NFL and the recent birth of my...
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Jill Insley is the head of the consumer team at The Guardian. I follow Jill on twitter, and read her articles on The Guardian website. Jill recently published a piece surrounding the results of analysis conducted by housing and homelessness charity, Shelter. I found the article particularly interesting and equally...
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So I’m up for this blog time and I have my colleague, witty but a little bit funny Simon more excited than me. I guess it’s time for my thoughts to push my keys and serenade my page.
For the last four years I have asked many daily questions. Curiosity doesn’t necessarily kill all cats.
There is no bigger...
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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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