Entries by Victoria McGlynn

Is Your Job Advertisement Arrogant?

Your job advertisement is more than a tool you use to fill an open position. It’s also the first impression of a potential employee with your company. That’s why it’s so important that your job ad says positive things about your company, and unfortunately, many companies write job advertisements in a way that doesn’t make […]

5 Common Job Advertisement Mistakes

Writing a job advertisement is not as easy as it sounds, which is why we offer job advertisement writing services here at Employment Office – advertisements that are known to attract the best applicants and find you the right people for the job. For many, job advertisements are an afterthought. But the reality is that […]

Do You Really Need 3 Years of Experience?

As an employer, your job advertisement is perhaps the most important factor in finding great applicants. It needs to be designed in a way that will attract the talent that you want to add to your company. Every detail you add to your job advertisement is there for the perfect applicant to say “Hey, that’s […]

Do Reference Checks Still Matter?

“References Available Upon Request” This sentence is placed smack dab at the bottom of almost every resume and CV you’ll collect. Employers like references. Applicants hate asking for them and do not like to bother their friends and coworkers. So what you get is a compromise – the acknowledgement that if you want references, you […]

Justifying the Cost of Candidate Background Checks

In 2010, the Chief Executive Officer for ITL, a leading medical technology firm, approached his recently hired Accountant, Sonya Dollman, to discuss a troubling discovery. It had recently come to his attention that Sonya may have falsified information on her resume to obtain the position, namely by omitting her tenure as Payroll Manager with failed […]

5 Reasons You Are Unable to Fill Open Positions

Recruitment is expensive. Every day you go without a new employee is a day that you are losing money, because that employee’s productivity is suffering and you are still trying to get the employee hired. Hiring can be difficult. But there are millions of people looking for work and millions more that would be willing […]

The occupation identity crisis – What’s in a name?

Remember the days when it was easy to tell a person’s job from their title?  A simple time when the name of a job was clear and uncomplicated, without ambiguity or grandiose descriptions making it virtually impossible to determine what the person actually does? Some of us can barely remember those days, and it’s no […]