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Less Fishing More Communication
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No CommentsTweet As we draw ever closer to the new fiscal year it’s a good time for reflection – we’ve certainly experienced a rollercoaster of demand with the year starting out... -
Standing Out in a Project Management Meerkat
Posted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsTweet One of the most common questions I still get asked a lot is how can I make my CV stand out when I’m applying for positions? I get asked... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Hiring Right First Time
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsTweet As the hiring manager how do I “ensure” that more often than not I get the right person for the role first time of asking? What a great question... -
The Online Habits of a Jobseeker – Being 13%
Posted on April 8, 2011 | 1 CommentTweet Online job board and recruitment company GuruCareers published some interesting information at the end of March 2011 about the habits of a jobseeker and the online activity they take... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Showing PRINCE2 on your CV
Posted on January 12, 2011 | 1 CommentTweet And another Project Management Recruitment Ideas for this week, I’ve been looking at what some of our readers have been searching for on The Camel and what might seem... -
Can You Really Delegate Your Job Search?
Posted on October 20, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet This weekend I noticed that the job board Jobsite started up its ad campaign again featuring that cheeky Mancunian scamp Max Beesley. It features him walking down the street... -
Things to Know About the Values Based Interview
Posted on August 10, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet Time for some values based interview advice, from straight out of our collection of careers-based advice on the Arras People website… Sit down for but a moment and take... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – How long should a Project Manager CV be?
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, the question How Long Should a Project Manager CV be?* might seem a boringly easy question and one that should require no thought... -
What You Need to Know About the Recruitment Process
Posted on July 2, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Over the last few weeks Arras People has been dissecting and writing about the project management recruitment process on the Camel Blog, providing advice, hints and tips on how... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Embrace (not fear) Application Forms
Posted on June 17, 2010 | No CommentsTweet The last Project Management Recruitment Idea we looked at the interview stage and presentations. This week we focus on the application stage again, specifically the “dreaded” application form. Why... -
Why Hiring Managers Are So Dysfunctional
Posted on June 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet It’s a tough thing being in the job market. You make up a CV and send it out by the truckloads. You write it and rewrite it; you peddle... -
Undervalued?
Posted on June 2, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet It has come to my attention recently that a number of project professionals currently working out in the field are feeling the bite of the recession in ways other... -
Get it right!
Posted on May 26, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet It is a time for change and the job market is ever evolving (some may say it has become stagnant at times) as the economy emerges from recession and... -
Online Dependency?
Posted on May 18, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A recent experience has made me realise how dependent the recruitment process has become on the electronic world. Through our DWP sponsored Jobsearch Support Service I have been helping... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – How Do I Look?
Posted on April 20, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note, competency based interviews, brushing up on your project management knowledge, looking after your information and the job interview so far... -
Tipoffs: A Big Day Tomorrow
Posted on April 14, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A last-minute reminder for fans of great newsletters: Project Management Tipoffs, the project and programme management newsletter from Arras People, will be distributed to subscribing inboxes free tomorrow morning.... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Personal Info to a Minimum
Posted on April 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note, competency based interviews and brushing up on your project management knowledge so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Brushing Up on Your PM Knowledge
Posted on April 2, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note and competency based interviews so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment Ideas; this week I’m going tap into... -
Graduate Opportunities in Project Management
Posted on March 26, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Mooching through the web I came across this opportunity at Mouchel within their Government and Business Services (GBS) stream which may be of interest to graduates looking at an... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Competency Interviews
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process and the cover note so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment Idea, this week I’m going to jump to the interview... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – The Cover Note
Posted on March 16, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet Last week we looked at the application process in the first Project Management Recruitment Idea and I’m going to stick with the same part of the process because I’m... -
How to Respond to the Changing Project Management Jobs Market?
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Last week I took part in a podcast with the delightful and delectable Paul Naybour and John Bolton of Parallel Project Training where we discussed the changes in today’s... -
Putting Your CV in a Job Application
Posted on March 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet Companies these days are requiring job candidates to fill out job applications more than ever in an effort to shove past the laissez-faire, emailed CV. If you pay close... -
Casting Pods with Lindsay Scott
Posted on March 2, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In my worst Chris Moyles impression, download the podcast tomorrow afternoon! Arras People‘s own Lindsay Scott will take questions from Parallel Project Training’s Paul Naybour in his highly-regarded Project Management Jobs Podcast... -
Career Development: Social Media and the Five Tools for the Professional Job Hunter
Posted on January 29, 2010 | No CommentsTweet “You need to stand out from the crowd if you’re going to find your ideal job”. How many times have you heard this over the last few months? The... -
Q&A – Assessment Testing Format To Your Benefit
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsTweet “I can’t make sense of a company e-mailing me an assessment test to do on my own time. Why wouldn’t they want me to do this in an office... -
Monday Morning Links – 9th November
Posted on November 9, 2009 | 3 CommentsTweet Cliche Quote of the Week… Come together right now over me The Beatles, “Come Together” Only the most important day in project management across the entirety of the universe,... -
Monday Morning Links – 26th October
Posted on October 26, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet “You can observe a lot just by watching.” Yogi Berra It’s en vogue and a bit overdone, even for an English blog, to quote Yogi Berra. And though the Hall... -
Project Management Recruitment – Walking into a Beam of Light
Posted on September 25, 2009 | No CommentsTweet You have no doubt heard all about the Job Search Support service Arras has been providing in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions in support of the... -
The Trouble with Scatterguns
Posted on September 10, 2009 | 2 CommentsTweet In our daily conversations with candidates who are currently in the process of searching for their next role, we hear of numerous different methods of approaching the market. It...
