Have you ever had a bad experience with a recruitment agent? I’m going to take a wild guess and say that everyone reading this is going to answer with a resounding YES. Having owned and run progressive recruitment agencies for the last 10 years, I am in no denial about the poor reputation recruitment industry
A quick scan of google will show you that the most common question from candidates is… “Why are recruiters not responding to my application?!” At The Executives we want our candidate to get the right job for them, however that is sourced, so below we have offered our insights into this question to help you
The nagging feeling I had from the minute I started my recruitment career was “This could be so much faster”. Eventually this thought led to frustrations about the business model in general, and soon an obsession to improve it for everyone involved. So, this is my problem. I am a person who is obsessive –
Hong Kong has been pummeled by economic and political uncertainly which has now been compounded by the impact of Covid 19 – all of which have contributed to what we now perceive as candidates how “job hop” I worry about this latest cohort on the work force and fear that those who entered the market from
Whilst I have always known what the missing features from job adverts were, I wanted to validate this against evidence. Luckily, due to our work on recruitment automation, we have a great tech team and I asked them for a favour. We ran a meta-analysis cross referencing several Asian internet job boards against all the
The digital revolution, as it has been called, is rapidly becoming nothing short of a 4th Industrial Revolution. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and biotechnology,
Sweaty palms. Shortness of breath. Elevated heart rate. These are all tell-tale signs of the nervousness that usually accompanies an interviewee into a job interview. And while interviewers usually know to expect this
It seems like everywhere we look, the lofty promises of Big Data and its accompanying analytics are being hailed as a silver bullet, with the golden age right around the corner. And indeed, looking to huge successes like Amazon or Netflix, we can see the impact their Big Data analytics have had on the bottom
The idea of playing computer games to land a job is something that sounds like it came straight out of a high-school student’s journal of unrealistic expectations about adult life, but increasingly companies are using gaming technology to test candidates’ abilities to engage with their work. It’s not just a cheap stunt employed by start-up
