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Opinion

Confidential Employer: a hideout for employers with a poor image?

What are good reasons for not divulging a company’s identity during the recruitment process?


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How would you react to a counter-offer from your current employer

The counter-offer Oh how we hate counter-offers! Eh? Especially when you are on the side that finds itself having to outbid? Worthwhile? A necessary evil? A sign of a shortage in the workforce, it makes no difference; we must deal with them and know how to distinguish between those who play games and those who negotiate sincerely. Such a challenge!


Opinion

The tendency now is to make job posting titles complicated.

BLBR1116-MS-B86 co-writer of the writing of the title of a posting which is difficult to read (N-3*) – 542354… Not so long ago, we began elaborating job posting titles, or at least making them original, in order to ensure more interesting returns on postings. This era seems to have evolved since the tendency now is to make them complicated.


Oddly enough

Are interview anti-drug controls beckoning on the horizon?

Are interview anti-drug controls beckoning on the horizon?


Oddly enough

Detect candidate’s lies during interviews

A pocket lie detector Have you ever dreamed of being able to detect candidate’s


By the numbers

SPAM How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet


Opinion

Good candidates don’t always make the best employees…

Are you looking for candidates or employees? Good candidates don’t always make the best employees…


Opinion

Look after your employer image now, reply to candidates who write to you

“Don’t be surprised if we don’t get back to you” The field of recruitment doesn’t escape from the old saying…putting it off today will only make the task more difficult tomorrow. The wind always changes…


Opinion

Any candidate has sufficient qualities to reply to any job posting

Whose fault is it? Many of you blame generalist job sites when faced with the quantity and poor quality of applications received following a job posting…The source of the problem comes in part from the way in which job offers are written


Toolbox

Out of your three final candidates, your client does not know which one to choose…

Keep it on the back burner…without forgetting it!You have a nice problem on your hands. Out of your three final candidates, your client does not know which one to choose (and yes, it does happen…).


Oddly enough

The reverse job fair is an initiative from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

The reverse job fair – an “upside-down” concept


Opinion

Happiness at work, fuelling productive employees

The money doesn’t bring happiness; salary is no longer adequate.


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