IT, Tech and AI Recruitment Blog

Confidence is up but where are my team? Why you need to move at lightning speed to secure the permanent candidates you want.

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Why have 80% of companies operating a PSL had to source from outside their list in the last 12 months?

Before you interview for your IT opening, there’s someone else you need to interview first: the current jobholder. After all, there’s no one who understands the position better than the person who’s currently doing it!

Ask a silly question, get a silly answer, right? Well perhaps your questions aren’t silly, but if they’re straight out of the textbook, you’re likely to receive the same textbook answers from all of your well prepared candidates. And as a recruiting employer that’s only going to make life more difficult for you. After all the main purpose of interviewing is the get to know each individual candidate and determine who will best suit your role, so it’s down to you to carefully craft some intelligent interview questions that will tease out some interesting and revealing answers.

The first words I heard from the Boss’ mouth this morning would not have necessarily gone down well in the company of my Mother and certainly would not have been heard in a Sunday morning sermon. What was the reason for such a tirade – lack of sleep? No coffee? General winter blues? Perhaps all three contributed, but the main reason behind his x rated outburst was that he had been asked to reset a password.