31/08/10 - Professionals versus Amateurs.

If you want something done, perhaps you would ask a professional to do it. Someone who costs a lot but is worth more than they charge. Someone who shows up even when she doesn't feel like it. Someone who stands behind her work, gets better over time and is quite serious indeed about the transaction.

Or perhaps you could hire a passionate amateur. That's a forum leader doing it for love, not money. An obsessive in love with the craft. A talented person willing to trade income for the chance to do what he loves, with freedom.

Please, though, don't hire someone who just thinks it's a job. This category represents the majority of your options, and this category is what gives work a bad name.

25/08/10 - Up to date recruitment policies...

I feel this is something that needs to be addressed and quickly. The process of HR Managers, Internal Recruiters and I am sorry to say many external recruitment companies.

People are still writing their CV/resume in a format that was approved many decades ago, when manufacturing ruled the world. We are now in the social media age, where we can find out a lot about everyone very quickly. Companies are still trying to use this format to get the best people even today.

Companies still scan the old format CV/resumes into a big system, which will flag key words, which the HR managers will then count and then approve to be forwarded along the production line. This means that people who have not formatted correctly will be very lucky to get a job. I feel that Companies will continue to fail in finding the best people this way.

People do not as a rule 1. write a CV everyday and 2. Interview every day every week or even every year, so interviews and CV writing are not their job. Their job is to defend their product, service, solution, device on a daily basis. So why when people are interviewed do they not have to defend themselves? I make sure people defend themselves against technical skills or against a sales target for every requirement before they are sent to a client.

I feel that an interview should be a Power Point of their resume and the person should have to defend his resume to 1, 2 or 3 people. If the audience likes the way the person defends themselves, then it is highly probable they will like the way they could work together and this would be a good hire. I also like one of my clients attitude mainly for sales people. If he can have dinner with this person for 2 hours and feel engaged and would like to buy a product/service from this person, then the majority of potential clients, he would hope would think the same, rather than a tick the box scanned words format. This also works with technical staff because people have got to like how you solve the technical problem and come up with a solution.

Tick box old fashioned 1900's methods attitudes need to change and engage the candidate in discussion. This is the JWB way. Your should try it... 

04/05/10 - Recent Placement of Region Manager Russia & CIS

This very well respected Broadcast Software Region Manager was placed with a great CA company to cover Russia and CIS. If your company is looking for similar calibre of candidate please do not hesitate to get in touch.