Candidate

Maybe this blog topic appealed to me because most of the people I interview are now younger than me.. (I’m just starting to look down the other […]

Be real. Be memorable. Be professional. It doesn’t matter whether you’re writing a CV, meeting a potential employer in an interview situation, attending a networking

I’ve employed a lot of technically talented people in my time, but it’s not always the talented people that get their career fast tracked. When

In the course of being a recruiter giving interview tips and advice and prepping candidates for interviews, there’s something I do certainly every week, almost

A Technical Account Manager is someone who works for an IT company or MSP and is responsible for looking after the client as far as the relationship goes. They need

You walk into the interview and sit down and the interviewer almost without thinking rattles off the classic interview opener “Tell me a bit about yourself”.

What can I leave out? I see many resumes that are way too long. Far more than that are too short. So I thought I’d

This is a real bug bear of mine, so please excuse this rant. Heck no, don’t excuse it, sit up and listen, and take notes

I watched a ‘Seconds from Disaster’ episode last night on the 1986 Hotel New World collapse in Singapore. Disaster to say the least – an

Skills matrices are a much vexed question for IT CV’s so here’s my take on it. Firstly, if the role you are going for is

One of the things I learnt early on in my IT recruitment career was that technical definitions and particularly job titles mean different things to

Make your resume look the absolute best it can be. Make sure that it is really well designed, it shows a bit of flair, a