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How to HandleYour Recruitment Consultant Brilliant insider tips, tricks & secrets to maximise the performance of your recruitment consultant and secure that perfect job and knock out salary you know you want and deserve Click here to read Amazon, Blackwell & WHSmith reviews Available from: Short Stack Direct, Amazon.co.uk, Blackwell Online, WHSmith, Waterstones "Finally a careers book that tells the truth about what really goes on! Don't even contemplate a job hunt without it..." |
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| This brilliant book is the first on the market devoted to handling your recruitment consultant. Let's face it, all those CV & interview books are great... but there's no point in having a killer CV and mind blowing interview skills if no one, other than your consultant, ever gets to see them!
Now with these insider tips, tricks and strategies your consultants will be like putty in your hands. At long last you'll get them working their little tushes off to secure you those interviews, jobs and salaries you want and deserve! Perfect for graduates, career changers, first jobbers, new jobbers, in fact all 'jobbers'. In short for everyone who's reluctantly realised that Recruitment Consultants are a fact of job hunting life. (Note: Never ever call them a Necessary Evil (that gets explained inside).) |
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Price: £6.99 & UK delivery cheaper than Amazon standard delivery.
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Availability: In stock. Dispatched from and sold by Short Stack Publishing.
Chapters:
One ~ The Beginning: A Very Good Place To Start
Two ~ The Notebook of Success
Three ~ Preparation: Helping Yourself
Four ~ Think RC: Two Moons In His Moccasins
Five ~ Being Handled: How RCs Try to Handle You
Six ~ RC Speak: Reading Between The Lines
Seven ~ The 7 Secret Keys That'll Bring Them to Their Knees
Eight ~ I Want That One: Choosing Your RC
Nine ~ First Contact
Ten ~ Face to Face: The Aesthetics & Admin of Your First Meeting with Your RC
Eleven ~ Head to Head: The Brains of Your First Meeting with Your RC
Twelve ~ Maintenance
Thirteen ~ Pre Job Interview
Fourteen ~ Post Job Interview
Fifteen ~ Result: Offer? Second Interview? Rejection? Silence?
Sixteen ~ The Close: Contract Negotiation & Acceptance
Seventeen ~ Troubleshooting
Eighteen ~ The RC Handling Commandments
CV Crib Sheet
An A to Z of Recruitment
Index
Paperback: 124 Pages
Price: £9.99
Author: Herbie Henderson
Series Editor: Oscar Dyson
#5 in The How to Handle Series
Published: 07 February 2008
ISBN: 978-1906467050
Available direct from Short Stack (comes with extra very special Short Stack present from us!)
Also available online from Short Stack at Amazon, Amazon, Blackwell Online, WH Smith, Waterstones and many others, and of course from all good bookshops!
Amazon Reviews:
Book Rating: 5 Stars
This book is brilliant, and I have worked in recruitment for 16 years...
By Sarah A
This book is brilliant - I have worked in recruitment for 16 years and this is so true of how you should handle any recruitment consultant. Highly recommended both for job seekers and industry experts alike - my whole team will be borrowing this book once I've finished it.
Book Rating: 5 Stars
The insider info is invaluable - I now recommend it to all my graduates and undergraduates
By Mrs S Denny
Excellent book. As a University tutor students often ask me for advice on job hunting. I am now recommending this book as one of the key books for my students. It is written in an easy to read format, with practical advice and examples that everyone can relate to, and put into practice.
The most useful fact is that it is written by someone who has worked within recruitment and not simply as a careers advisor etc. For years I've been frustrated by books that just don't tackle the real issues even if they are basic and obvious to some people, they are so often overlooked by the undergraduates and graduates I work with and have tried to help. This book tells people why to do certain things and not others, what to write, how to communicate and what to do to stay on top of your job search.
Whenever I talk to my students about job searching I direct them to How to Handle Your Recruitment Consultant. With so many people searching for jobs and with so many of those jobs being handled by recruitment consultants I want my students to have the edge over their competitors and I believe this book gives them that edge.
My own copy is constantly on loan to students and is well worn after just a few weeks of ownership which is high praise indeed when you bear in mind that many of these same students rarely even appear to read to the end of their subjects' reading lists let alone books!
Book Rating: 5 Stars
Great Book for Job Hunters - Does exactly what it promises to do
By Suzy Campbell
Good book that covers all the basics and more. Gives insights into how recruitment consultants work, and provided genuinely useful advice. I found the writing style engaging, which was a pleasant surprise as I find most books in this area are pretty dull and turgid. This book covered the key areas but did so in such a way that I actually absorbed what was being said rather than finding I was tuning out. The book is short, but, as the author says, it is designed to be read in a handful of tube journeys. I liked it and found it very useful and a good read. Am already finding it useful and am reaping the benefits of having read this book. Would recommend it to anyone who is starting or is already in the middle of a job search.
Book Rating: 5 Stars
As a recruiter can honestly say that this was both amusing and surprisingly insightful
By Sam Devlin
Having read a favourable review of this book I decided I wanted to judge it for myself (I suspected the reviewer wasn't as harsh on it as I was planning to be). Also, as a recruitment consultant, I wanted to know what my candidates may be reading. Was very pleasantly surprised by what a genuinely practical book this is, and also impressed by Henderson's approach. The title is good, and really sums up the book well. I can see that candidates who read this will genuinely have a much greater chance of success. As a side point, having read it myself and handed it around to my colleagues, we are in agreement that it actually is a useful book for recruiters to read too. In fact several of our newest consultants said they wish they'd been able read it when they started. A good read with useful ideas - definitely worth reading if you want to get the best out of your recruitment consultants. Basically 'it does what it says on the tin'. 5 stars.
Book Rating: 5 Stars
Excellent. Tells you everything you need to know.
By "Wolfgang" (UK)
Really excellent book. Had read a v positive review in weekend newspaper which is why I bought it. Am very pleased I did; it covered all the areas I hoped it would plus much much more. Herbie Henderson writes well - she is amusing and engaging, a very nice style. The book doesn't try to be anything it's not, just gets on with dealing what it promises to deal with in the title, and doesn't waste time with filler and waffle (which I personally find some books in this area tend to do). Extremely handy book. It has been incredibly useful to have the inside track on what actually goes on inside recruitment consultancies, and to know how to get them to do what I want. Really great book - and vital for a job search.
Book Rating: 5 Stars
An invaluable guide for job hunters. Told me everything I was hoping it would.
Highly recommended.
By Georgie Hayes
Finding a job is a tricky business in itself, but finding the RIGHT job is even tougher. Having a really good recruitment consultant (or consultants) should make your job hunt easier, but often they not only fail (hugely) to make our job hunt easier but in fact make our job searches even tougher by being sloppy and inefficient. This excellent little book plugs the gap left by the other books in this genre: the others deal with CV writing and applications and covering letters, psychometric tests and interview skills, but if you haven't got your consultant doing their job all that sort of misses the point and is somewhat wasted. This book tells the truth about how to deal with recruitment consultants and also tells the truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Henderson has used insider knowledge and combined it with industry research and hands on experience to create a really useful tool to help you in your job search. On top of that the style is highly engaging, and as you read it you feel as though you're sitting across the table from a really good friend who knows the industry well enough to be able to give you the inside track. Overall a great read and has already proved to be thoroughly useful for me and several of my friends. Highly recommend buying this book if you want to find your ideal job!
Book Rating: 5 Stars
A big little book
By "Bugalugs"
Whether you already have problems with recruitment consultants or are just starting to contact them in your search for a job, this simple book explains it all. It is clear, concise and precise. Everything you need to know (and more) is here. Buy this book and you will have your recruitment consultants doing what you want them to be doing (finding you the jobs you are looking for). It illuminates all the mistakes people commonly make and provides a clear way to proceed. The writing style is relaxed, which may not be everyone's taste, but I like it.
I've found it extremely useful and now have an excellent job I love, for which I am grateful to my recruitment consultant, and in turn am therefore grateful for this book.
In short it's worked for me, and so I highly recommend it.
Blackwell Review:
Book Rating: 5 Stars
Brilliant book. Genuinely useful and well written.
By Emily Marshall
Really useful. Well written. Explained a lot of things! Glad I bought it, can already see a difference in how my consultants are behaving. Am getting calls returned and have two interviews for jobs I actually want lined up next week. A great read that fulfills the promise of its title.
WH Smith Review:
Book Rating: 5 Stars
By Grace Andrews
Excellent read. Covers everything I wanted it to cover. Some really useful ideas, and explanations of how to actually get Recruitment Consultants to do what they are supposed to do. Great book.
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