Sometimes you can receive 100's if not 1,000's of applicants to a job. It is impossible to give them all a personalised and detailed piece of correspondence as to why they are not suitable for a role but should you try? People will talk about negative experiences a lot more often than they will positive one's - you only need to look at the linked in posts about recruitment consultants to see the truth of that - therefore why do companies often not provide constructive feedback to
Flexible working, flexi-time, home working, part time hours, condensed hours. Unfortunately, these words are not part of the standard vocab in the Legal sector yet but can really pay off when searching for a skill set which is in short supply in a given geography. A client of mine was recently struggling to source a key role with a niche skill set, combine this with a desire to have the successful applicant coming from a legal sector background it was doubly tricky. They had searched for the
Ahead of our breakfast seminar on Bid Management and the current challenges of hiring into the bid sector, I spent a few minutes with Andrew Morrison, Managing Director of AM Bid Services, to ask him a few questions and get his take on creating successful bids and tenders. By way of introduction, Andrew, with years of experience in Bid Management behind him working for FTSE-100 organisations as well as SME’s, set up AM Bid Services in 2014. Since then, the business is developing
Breakfast Seminar – with Bid Experts, AM Bid Services Friday 30th June 08.00-10.00 Friday 30th June sees Hatch Recruitment team up with award winning bid specialists, AM Bid Services 08.00-10.00 at The Albert Square Chop House, Manchester to co-host a breakfast seminar for you like no other! This FREE event will see me examine the latest bid recruitment trends as well as the most innovative tactical approaches you can take to win bids delivered by Bid Specialists, Andrew Morrison and
Time flies when you are having fun and it’s the end of year 1 already. I’ve had several people drop me messages to wish me luck and ask how it’s going – all of which I am very grateful for – but made me realise that I should put some thoughts together on the year and why setting up on my own has been the best decision I have made. It’s difficult to explain the emotions of the past year. It’s a bit cheesy to liken it to having another child but it really
Sometimes employers forget that the job market is a two way street. The focus for the employer is too often on - who is best for my company, what value do they add to my job and who can I/the company work with? Not enough on how can we develop this individual, how can we further their career and why should they want to work for us. This attitude can manifest at various points in the process, writing the spec, handling feedback, at the interview, at offer stage, during the on boarding process
When it comes to looking for a new job then it's time to think of your CV as a marketing tool. This is the key piece of data that a potential employer is going to use to decide whether you might be the right person for the job. Yes...before you say it, it is my job to talk them through it and get them to buy in, but ultimately most clients like to have a moment to review as well and if what they are seeing does not create the right mental image then it makes the persuasion part on my
Getting offered a job comes down, in a large part, to how you perform in an interview. Normally you will get 2 interviews, but sometimes all can be decided in the first meeting and other times you might be invited back to meet more and more people. Either way, often your future depends on something you don't actually practice that often, often one misstep can be the difference between getting the job of your dreams...or not. Therefore an essential part of the recruiters job is to
Do I really see helping you find your next role and helping to further your career as similar to hatching an egg? Course not, I have no intention of sitting on you till you are ready to spread your wings. What I do want to do is get to know you, understand what makes you tick, what makes you get up in the morning and want to head into work or open your laptop etc. If I can get to know this then I can find the right business for you to do that again when it is time to make the next move. It is
Today I wrote a tweet @hatchrecruiter and promised that I would branch into content marketing and write a blog. I was being fairly flippant when I wrote it and I'm not sure whether I meant it and then suddenly within seconds a whole load of people liked it! I have a confession, I am not entirely convinced I know what content marketing is! I have read that it is the same as writing a story and putting some of yourself into it. Terrifying - what if people don't like it,