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Are you on a blind date or going for an interview?
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 08/09/2023
» Blind dates are sometimes good, usually bad, and always weird at the beginning. So are many interviews between a candidate and a hiring company.
The consequences of cheating and lying on your resume
Tom Sorensen, Published on 23/04/2018
» When a man we'll call Sombat was offered and accepted a CFO position for one of my multi-national clients, he was obviously ecstatic and over the moon. Half a million baht per month in salary, company car with driver, big bonus and share options. You get the picture. Fast forward just a few weeks and Sombat was fired even before his first working day. To make matters worse, he had already given notice to his current employer, so in less than a month he lost two jobs.
Candidates on blind dates
Tom Sorensen, Published on 27/11/2017
» Blind dates are sometimes good, usually bad, and always weird at the beginning. So are many interviews between a candidate and a hiring company. If you have never been on one yourself, a blind date is when a friend sets you up to meet a mystery person that you don’t know.
The seven year itch in recruitment
Tom Sorensen, Published on 06/11/2017
» It is said that 50% of marriages, or more, end in divorce. That's a scary prospect which makes many think hard before proposing or walking down the aisle.
Headhunters don't take the rap for clients' behaviour
Tom Sorensen, Published on 02/10/2017
» If you want to know how to jerk the headhunter around, how to make recruiters hate you, how to toy with them and lie to them, or how you lead them to believe one thing while meaning another, promise them something when you really have no intention of keeping your word, then the following will tell it all.
The top five fatal mistakes made by Job-Seekers
Business, Tom Sorensen, Published on 03/01/2013
» In my last column, "How to Make the Headhunter Hate You", on Dec 21, I looked at five of the Top 10 faux pas committed by people in the course of applying and interviewing for new jobs. To recap briefly, they were: getting people's names wrong, an overlong re{aac}sume{aac}, dressing for the disco instead of for an interview, failing to prepare, and faking your qualifications. But it gets worse: here are our final _ and potentially fatal _ five: