Search engines are the friend of many, especially any modern business. Today I spent time looking through more CV’s, using social media to help find candidates for work and updating our information to ensure that the vacancies on our site are current. A lot of screens and a lot of reading. These are the things
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And the hunt begins
Today is my first official day as a candidate resource consultant and I expect it to be a rather busy day indeed. The world of employment is a tough one at the best of times, and resourcing the right people for the right job is something that can have its pitfalls and surprises, but that
Is it a bird, is it a plane, no, it’s a CV
Curriculum Vitae, something that we all have to write at some stage or another, but can we all improve on our approach when writing it. Over the course of our education, we’re told to improve our grades and reach our potential, but we are rarely ever given a life lesson in selling ourselves. Today one of my
Interning and the world of social media
Internships, a title often met with severe conjecture in the world of business and a phrase often thought to be more detrimental than actually useful, but here at Permanent People we don’t have time for any of that noise! Starting the day at 7 sharp(ish), bright eyed and bushy tailed, I had my tour of the
Early success for recruitment role
Permanent People is still in its infancy but we have already experienced success in recruiting for a couple of roles for some very established recruitment companies. The way things have started for us and our approach to recruiting in an honest and straightforward way has underlined that we feel we are already making a difference
Agency tricks
At the end of this week, my first in my new office, I received a call from a bloke trying to find out if I could help him out with his recruitment requirements. Now on the face of it, this seems great, however as the business is very new and we haven’t advertised anywhere, it
Zero hours contracts
It has been all over the news in the past 24 hours that approximately a million people are working under a zero hours contract. I think Vince Cables use of the word ‘abuse’ is a bit over dramatic but I do realise that essentially these type of contracts main beneficiaries are the employers, be it
Twas the night before Christmas…
Well that’s how it feels anyway. Today is the day before Permanent People goes live and new era in permanent recruitment is brought to the masses. Alright, maybe that’s a bit OTT but I feel that with the launch of the company tomorrow, we really can start making a difference in how candidates are treated
Launch
With just four days to go now until Permanent People is unleashed onto the world, I’ve been struck at how an idea can grow into a plan and then into reality in such a short space of time. It takes a lot of hard work and there is definitely more to come, but if you
Social Media?
Do you use social media to find work? It would be interesting to see if it is a viable format to search for such an important part of people’s lives. I think people still use traditional media such as job boards, press and word-of-mouth but there is a growing trend in today’s world where job
