Talent Management-steroid powered job search

Fed up with recruiters who try and pump you for information on where you are interviewing and who your line manager is? Like to know which companies local to you need your skills? Then our Talent Management offering may be what you are looking for!

Talent Emporium is looking to change the world of recruitment by offering a flat fee recruitment solution to clients and an individually tailored Talent Management offering to job seekers across the UK and Ireland.

Our Talent Management offering is a STEROID powered job search which will cut out the middleman (i.e. the recruiter) and decrease the time of hire ensuring you find your next role, quicker with the minimum of fuss. Our Talent Management offering provides:

CV clinic to ensure maximum impact when it lands in the clients inbox

Articles of improving your job search, networking and interview techniques

Individually tailored list of companies hiring in your area

Individually tailored shortlist of hiring managers within your specific industry

CV proactively marketed to an individually derived list of employers

Talent Emporium’s Talent Management offering is guaranteed to save weeks from you finding your next job and thousands of pounds if you are out of work.

For more information on our Talent Management offering contact us info@talentemporium.com

Illegal Interview Questions

As the recession bites and competition for jobs is on the increase you may find yourself having to answer more probing questions from your future employer which may not always be on the right side of the law. This was the experience of one of our candidates who had recently been on interview.

During interview it is important for both employer and candidate to gain as much information as possible of either party to ensure the correct decision is made and the right candidate is hired for the job. However, during the process it is important that the correct questions take place, questions that probe applicants qualifications, education, experience, past times and availability. But, all too often in an employers attempt to get to know the applicant they begin to probe areas which are off limits!

Questions relating to family, marital status and children seem relatively harmless on the surface but are definitely a non no! And this type of questioning seems to be more pertinent to female applicants.

How do you deal with questions outside the law?

More often than not candidates are unaware of employment law and even if there were they may put themselves at risk of loosing the job they are interviewing for they are not prepared to answer the questions at hand.

An approach would be to determine if there is any bad intention on the part of the employer, if you believe there is none, and then provide a direct answer to the question at hand. However, if you believe there is bad intention then focus on the relevance of the question to the job qualifications and role on offer and look to switch attention to you qualifications, experience and your suitability for the role.

Talent Emporium provide SME’s and Blue Chip organisation with a flat fee online recruitment solution. We enable companies to make multiples hires from a 4-week recruitment campaign starting at just £500, helping companies save £1000’s on their recruitment spend.

For more information on our £500, £750 or £1250 flat fee recruitment solutions please email info@talentemporium.com for more information

Networking Tips for Job Seekers

1. Focus on networking with your warmest contacts and peers

2. Set clear objectives of what you are looking to gain from networking

3. Give More and take less! Generosity is Key share ideas, resources, and contacts

4. Be yourself

5. Ask lots of open questions - who? what? how? when?

6. Network with a wide range of contacts outside your immediate connections

7. Ensure you have a consistent online presence and are using social media platforms to establish an online brand (Eg LinkedIn.com, Twitter, Facebook)

8. Take a genuine interest in other people, their challenges and their goals (and not just your own needs)

9. You have two years and 1 mouth, listen twice as much as you talk

10. Focus on the quality of relationships rather than the number of contacts you've got

11. Keep asking "How can I help you?" rather than "How can you help me?

12. Share and help others without expecting anything back

13. Limit the time you spend on social media platforms. They can easily distract you from the main goal of finding a job.

14. Think long term relationships rather than short term gain