Top 5 books for Lockdown 2.0 October 2020 Winter is coming, put down your phone, stop scrolling and feed your mind with this reading list. It will get you thinking and (hopefully) inspire you to create some fantastic new material for your stakeholders. 1. The Four Author: Scott Galloway…...
Latest News
Can you spot an axe murderer on a Zoom interview?
Can you spot an axe murderer on a Zoom interview? August 2020 Okay… so maybe not an axe murderer, but a poor work ethic and incompetency can be just as damaging, right? In these socially distant times, zoom interviews are very much the new normal, but how can you judge…...
Life after lockdown
Life after lockdownJuly 2020 COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the globe, forcing countries into lockdown, closing their borders and limiting commercial productivity. Companies have had to make increasingly difficult decisions to avoid insolvency, by placing employees on furlough or implementing staff redundancies, none of which are conducive to economic growth.…...
Recruitment Tips: Planning the recruitment interview part three – how to interview the candidate on past performance
In the article Recruitment Tips: Planning the recruitment interview part one we talked about past performance as being the best predictor of how a candidate will perform in the future and we focused on describing the non-technical skills and attributes as behaviours. In the article working out which questions to…...
Recruitment Tips: Planning the recruitment interview part two – working out which questions to ask
In the second of this series of articles Recruitment Tips: Planning the recruitment interview part one we looked at the importance of being crystal clear about the information we want the candidate to provide for us. In this article we’re going to move forward and focus on identifying the types…...
Recruitment Tips: Planning the recruitment interview part one – what do you want from the candidate?
In the first of this series of articles we looked at Recruitment Tips: How to Read a CV. In this article we’re going to focus on planning and preparing the recruitment interview beginning with identifying the information you want from the candidate. Why? Because the clearer we are about the…...
Recruitment Tips: How to Read a CV
In his blog, The Real Cost of Recruitment and Retention, Jonathan talks about the expense of recruiting the wrong person (and as this article from Forbes illustrates, it may be much more than you think!). So how do we minimise the risk of ‘bad hires’? Let’s start by looking at…...
The Real Cost of Recruitment and Retention
The Real Cost of Recruitment and Retention Like all things, there are pros and cons to recruitment agencies. Auxato Director, Jonathan Johnson, covers some of the main points to consider before calling a recruitment agent. Benefits of working with a recruiter Saves you time: why spend your weeks trawling through…...
8 top tips for a communications and public relations job interview
Like moving house, getting married, and waiting to be seated at a Peruvian Street Food Pop up, interviews are inherently stressful situations. In any stressful situation - unless you’re a Navy Seal - you might forget what, before, would have been automatic. If you are a Navy Seal; you’re probably…...
Telephone Interviews – Recruitment by Charles Darwin
Telephone Interviews – Recruitment by Charles Darwin Contract & freelance recruitment is recruitment at its most Darwinian. A discrete set of skills is needed for a set amount of time to achieve a certain business objective. It follows that the recruitment process should mirror these objectives; succinct, binary, and skills…...