Talent Acquisition Blog

It’s week 9 and the contestants are woken at 5:45am and informed they have 45 mins to get their business booties to St Pancreas station.  5.45am?  They’ll be getting up before they go to bed, at this rate. Anyway, the teams are heading for the longest champagne bar in Europe which is coincidentally based in [...]

  Last week we looked at the first 5 reasons why a job interview could go wrong including turning up late, dressing like Timmy Mallet, being over negative and having literally no knowledge about the company you are being interviewed for. In this final part we will be looking at a further 5 reasons why [...]

Last week we gave you a further 5 reasons why your CV could be rejected by recruiters including the importance of using bullet points, the use of ridiculous fonts and how to ensure your CV isn’t encyclopaedic in length. In part 3 of 4, we outline a further 5 reasons as to why your CV [...]

Welcome to week 8 of the Apprentice and the final nine contestants are awoken with a call at 6am from the Lord’s office telling them to get to Waterloo pronto. Even at 6am, Jade ‘Carol Thatcher’ Nash, is fully dressed and ready to roll.  Perhaps she will turn up on the Gadget show, unveiled as [...]

Over the past few weeks we’ve posted blogs on how to ensure that your CV hits the right mark. Hopefully you’ve applied some of these tips and optimised your CV and made it to the interview stage for that job you have always wanted. Unfortunately a lot of people think that the hard work has [...]

With myriad elements going towards making a great CV, we have put together 20 reasons why your CV might fall at the first hurdle. Last week we spoke about the first 5 reasons your CV could be rejected by recruiters which included candidates using a ridiculous email address, poor spelling and grammar, the use of a [...]

It’s week 7 and it’s a late kick off for the 10 remaining contestants when ‘generic’ woman rings to tell them they have 20 minutes to get ready to meet the Sith in a wholesale warehouse in Essex. Even though it’s late afternoon we still see the obligatory shots of contestants brushing teeth and talking [...]

First impressions count, especially with a CV.  When your CV is in front of a recruiter, it will typically get between 10 and 30 seconds of their time to impress the socks off them. To be in with a shot of getting an interview for that job, you really need to master the art of [...]

There are so many facets that go towards making a good CV and you may be wondering which aspect is causing your CV to struggle to make an impact? With barely 30 seconds to impress a recruiter, could your CV be failing because it’s so chock full of meaningless phrases and throwaway buzzwords that it simply doesn’t do your [...]

It’s episode six and in another completely unscripted moment, Big Al interrupts the contestant’s Wii fun, to announce a wee task (see what I did there?) Yes, it’s off to bonny Scotland, for this year’s cut price “we’re doing a task abroad” task. Business brain of the year, Adam, is to lead team Phoenix, whilst [...]