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Great leadership is a real feat and very few get it right. It is a complex business. As is the hiring and priming of a leadership population. Leadership requires a mix of skills often deemed to be contradictory; the ability to proffer a reasoned response with a forward thinking creativity that encourages, and fosters ideas and innovation and so facilitates progress.
Gone are the days when any graduate with a 2.1 from a decent university could happily expect to get a job within a few months. Now, I think, being ‘good’ is not quite enough. What sets some graduates apart from the others is Commerciality.
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FreshMinds has always attracted candidates with an entrepreneurial bent and recently I’ve had a flurry of emails from candidates letting me know about their new businesses. It’s something I always love hearing about, so thought I’d share a few of them with you. Three to be precise.
The assessment process will almost inevitably consist of a final round Assessment Centre, which often causes many of my candidates to break into a state of panic. Whilst all Assessment Centres are structured differently, there seem to be certain exercises/activities that commonly crop up.
business priorities for education and skills, reveals that over half of the employers surveyed are concerned they won’t be able to fill posts requiring the right graduate level or higher skills in the coming years. A large majority of employers want the government to ensure all young people leave school or university equipped with the employability skills they need to succeed in a commercial environment.
Despite all the talk of ‘Generation Crunch’, the lost generation of graduates, the most recent survey from the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) revealed the positive news that the graduate market had a surprisingly buoyant 2009 compared to expectations. OK, so vacancies still dropped by 8.9%, but many feared this would be more like 25%.
A pretty common sight on job boards across the land. The bonus is a powerful incentive to motivate and ultimately reward employees. A package without a bonus is typically seen as unattractive to a high flier, but the bonus comes many different shapes and sizes.
When I mention the term Executive Assistant to candidates here at FreshMinds Talent I often receive a slightly bewildered gaze in return. Images of making haste through the crowded streets of New York, fetching hot lattes for demanding bosses in the Devil Wears Prada race through candidates’ minds.
Following on from Soraya’s post on first bouncers, I thought I’d share some thoughts from a different angle – how can you keep hold of your graduate employees at the crucial 1-2 year stage?
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