Candidate Preparation

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
While writing job descriptions is not a favourite activity for any staffing professional, it does not have to be labour intensive.  You do not have to reinvent the wheel, there are many good free resources out there that will help you cut your time in half.
A good source of job information is [...]

Don’t Stop Short, Go All the Way!
With the labour market heating-up, staffing companies are faced with trying to find highly qualified individuals in a difficult market. Staffing companies around the globe seem to be facing the same challenge; lots of demand from clients, but not enough supply. So what are staffing companies doing differently to [...]

Recently, I wrote an article about the one page resume, it’s prevalence in the job market. This topic came from an discussion I had with the Vice President of a national recruitment company in Canada. He observed that some of his clients had been requesting that his recruiters only send one page resumes.
Having been in [...]

Many experts have estimated the cost of turnover between 1 to 2 times the annual salary of the position. Indeed when talented employees leave a company, the cost is great. This cost is even greater if the employer used the services of a professional head hunter.
In response to the turnover problem and competition in the [...]

Job seekers may not know how best to prepare themselves for a job interview and recruiters often are too busy to really to thoroughly prepare their candidates.
Here is a great article on how important it is to prep your candidate and some tips on how to do this.  It contains some great tips and reminds [...]