Generally people feel very positive and excited when they accept a new job role. However it sometimes happens that you start a new position and almost immediately feel like you’ve…
Technology is increasingly being used in all aspects of life to speed up processes and reduce human intervention. Anything that can be done to automate time-consuming processes potentially saves money….
Ten reasons why you shouldn’t let your persuasive employer change your mind when you resign: Handing in your resignation is a big deal and potentially a time of heightened emotion,…
Are recruiters still relevant with the rise of artificial intelligence? Developers of new technologies, scaremongers, pessimists and people with something to sell are always predicting the demise of the recruitment…
A few lucky people bounce from great job to even greater job… “when the head-hunter called it was too good an opportunity to turn down”. For most of us, however, a…
So many aspects of this topic have the potential to go wrong during the job search process. It’s sometimes faintly amazing that anyone moves jobs at all. Most…
Whether you are a candidate or a hiring manager, if your aim is to get the best service from your executive recruitment consultant, the approach is the same. The key…
You’ll find that there are literally thousands of CV templates on line. There are almost an equal number of articles and blogs giving you ‘vital information’ on how to put…
Key steps to a creating an awesome LinkedIn profile! Whether you are a serious job seeker or just receptive to the right opportunity, your LinkedIn profile must be great. Your…
With LinkedIn and other social media channels it is easier than ever to build relationships with business contacts. This also means it is more important than ever to nurture…
According to a CareerBuilder Survey, 82 percent of employers believe there will be no negative impact on the company when a candidate has a poor recruitment experience. The survey…
A recent survey by Prism indicated that at any one time nearly 90% of management consultants are either actively or passively job hunting i.e receptive to an approach. This figure…
How should a job seeker handle a counter offer? The dilemma of what to do when presented with a counter offer is age old. Perhaps having felt unhappy or undervalued…
You may think writing a CV is straight forward, but mediocre CVs are the norm and don’t do an applicant justice. Read on to learn how to present yourself effectively….
Overview In October 2018, Prism Executive Recruitment polled 3,000 experienced management consultants with a short questionnaire. There was also an opportunity for respondents to provide commentary on their experiences…
There are several reasons why a job seeker might decide to use a recruitment consultant and it has to be said this might not always be with great enthusiasm!…
In 20 years at the front line of working with talented candidates, we’ve seen quite a few howlers at Prism Executive Recruitment but some mistakes come up again and again….
“The more things change, the more they stay the same”. Never more true than in recruitment. Prism is twenty years old this month! Some of the changes in this…
Candidates are rightly seriously hacked off with the whole job search process. It’s impersonal and soul destroying with standards of behaviour often more like the lower reaches of estate agency…
The results of Prism’s 2016 annual Management Consultancy Recruitment Survey. We canvassed twenty-three SME consulting firms, typically in the 15-250 employee range. Key findings: All firms participating in the survey aim…
One of the most misused and misunderstood features of a CV is the Career Summary. For many job applications, your CV is the primary tool that hiring managers will use…
Specialist vs Generalist Consultancy Job Recruitment When looking for a career refresher with a new management consultancy job or if seeking to appoint a consulting professional to a consulting job in…
Management consulting job candidates should be confident that their CVs are accurate. Lying on a CV is not uncommon and the only plausible explanation is that people believe it doesn’t…
Recruitment giants LinkedIn and Indeed have both recently carried out major surveys looking at candidate attraction which, by implication, may also serve as a blueprint for staff retention. Indeed revealed that three-quarters of survey respondents to the…
Introduction to Prism’s 2015 Consultant Recruitment Survey In April 2015 Prism Executive Recruitment commissioned a survey of a small to medium sized Management Consultancy recruitment firms. It was undertaken in the…
I am a helpful person and invariably spend a lot of time helping potential applicants hone their CV and present it correctly to my client (Is this value added to…
The standard of job applications is shockingly bad. The article in this link is written by the MD of Pimlico Plumbers but before anyone gets a bit high and mighty…
Apparently based on 456,000 due diligence checks of more than 125,000 job applications an astonishing 40% of applications included a false grade, qualification, institution, course or date and overall 56%…
In my many years in recruitment I’ve seen many reports of the death of the recruitment agency: while I’m still a bit disappointed by the wishful thinking element of the…
Tony Restell, co-Founder of Top-Consultant.com, recently advised on the “Art of Rejecting Consulting Jobs”, people and their employers can have surprisingly long memories and very good records so it pays not…
A recent survey conducted by reed.co.uk reports 300 recruiters’ most off-putting application pet-peeves which can make the difference between you getting your dream job and being shooed away at the…
Is discriminating in favour of women by definition discriminating against men? On three occasions in the last six months I have been asked to favour female applicants. These were more…