When you advertise a new position your candidates are typically people who are actively looking for jobs. They're people who are either unemployed, or who are employed and looking for a new position. That seems obvious, but there's a segment of the market that's not applying—passive job seekers. They're the people who are employed and are happy where they are, but would be open to...

Recruiters are bashed on the LinkedIn platform hourly, as those who follow my posts know. I like to bash back as I have been a recruiter and now I supply websites to recruiters. Here is a mind-numbingly moronic behavior by some candidates and it is getting larger daily. When you sign up with a recruitment website, it will in most cases send you an email to...

With the outing of 'Fake News' is it any wonder that we are confused about what numbers to believe post-Brexit and what numbers to ignore as fake news. So what is to be done about it? Can we trust the press? If yes is some press to be more trusted than any other? I have long been a fan of the BBC and Channel 4 news, but...

It is a well know fact that sales people are often under pressure to not take lunch or to limit the lunch break they do have to grab some food and it at their desk while processing emails etc. Unless that is you are on or over target, if you are at the top end of your billing cycle then the rules get relaxed a...

Here is some really great work by the guys over at Recruitment Grapevine. Here they discuss the habits which can lose job seekers work and get them into trouble. The work that these guys produce is always of high quality and we think it is well worth a read. The posts starts with the following: Chewing gum, turning up late, and even swearing – things recruiters...

Here is just a fantastic piece of reasearch from DPG. They have broken down in a very clear and concise way what employees are doing on Google. Fab research for anyone wanting to find topics that they get create content for, for the passive job seeker. I mean how long would you want to work with a room full of racists? The blog begins with the...