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Too much BS on LinkedIn can be damaging to mental health
2024-09-12
This article discusses the tough and steady state of the current job market, contrasting the often exaggerated positive posts on LinkedIn. It highlights real data, such as decreased vacancies and wages, and shares personal observations of a more challenging recruitment environment, offering reassurance to jobseekers facing difficulties
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Why Location Matters 🌎
2024-02-29
This article highlights the importance of including location details on CVs, even with the rise of remote work. It explains how location helps recruiters connect with candidates, target job searches, and streamline the recruitment process, ensuring jobseekers are matched with relevant opportunities and saving time for all parties involved.
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Back to the Future
2022-11-18
If we are to believe what we read, Twitter may well be on its last legs as Elon Musk tries to reinvent the little blue bird using the same panache that Liz Truss used to revive…
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Vitae Financial Recruitment - Official Supplier to the Public Sector under the CCS's Permanent Recruitment Framework
2022-07-05
Vitae Financial Recruitment is delighted to announce that we have been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s RM6229 Permanent Recruitment – Lot 2 – Non Clinical Recruitment framework.
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Are your remote working policies failing early-career employees and sleepwalking you into a talent pipeline crisis?
2022-04-01
There is a growing voice of discontent among early career employees for whom remote working doesn’t work.
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A Lesson Learnt
2020-11-10
Back in February this year, I had 2 separate conversations that served up the biggest portion of humble pie that I can remember throughout my career to date.
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Recruitment Agencies – If you think it’s time to stop using them, maybe you have been using the wrong ones
2014-07-25
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Recipe for disaster – Why ‘One click job applications’ are bad news for recruiters and candidates
2013-12-03
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Accountancy
Tips
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation”
George Washington
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it”
George W Bush
“Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession”.
Sir Charles Lyell
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones”
John Maynard Keynes
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it”.
Theodore Roosevelt
Recruitment
Myths
"A CV should never be more than 2 pages" – nonsense – if you’ve done it, then put it down.
"All recruitment agencies are the same."
"All recruitment agencies speak to their candidates in depth about their client and respective roles prior to submitting their CV"…. unfortunately not always the case!
"Being a ‘perfectionist’ and not being able to say ‘no’ are great examples of “weaknesses”’…Hmm.."
"Consultants should have crazy hair styles and pin stripe suits" – a correlation between attire and results has not yet been scientifically proven.
"It needs at least 2 consultants to meet with a client in order to understand their business fully’" – and probably at least 3 to change a light bulb.
