by Tricia | Mar 10, 2019 | Blog
The team at First Base undertake hundreds of recruitment interviews on behalf of employers every year. Well qualified people too often let themselves down by failing to prepare for the questions they should expect to be asked. Often the most stumbled over and feared...
by Tricia | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, General
With record numbers of people in work (32.54m and rising according to the Office of National Statistics in January 2019), it is not surprising that employers are increasingly turning to trusted Recruitment Agencies to find the talent they need. How clients work with...
by Tricia | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog
We had to pass on bad news recently to a candidate well qualified for the job they had been interviewed for. It’s never a pleasant task to have tell someone they won’t be going forward to a second interview. We’d asked for feedback from our client of course and it was...
by Tricia | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog
A business contact (let’s call him Matt) recently shared a recruitment experience with us that speaks volumes about the chasm that sometimes exists between candidates and employers. Matt received a call from a Head of HR after turning down a job offer. The call went...
by Tricia | Oct 2, 2017 | Blog, Job Seekers
It still surprises me how often candidates turn up for an interview having done too little preparation. We hear time and time again from employers that a key reason one candidate has been selected over another is the amount of preparation the successful person did...
