Posts Tagged ‘company’
One of the biggest frustrations that job seekers have, is the amount of time spent applying for roles online, for such limited return. I can understand this, when hours are invested in clicking around websites, browsing and attaching generic, badly written resumes. Typically, what follows is lots of recruitment companies gathering resumes (sent by lazy [...]
Major employers spent an average of $6,000 per graduate hire in 2009 – down only marginally despite a big increase in the candidate pool, according to new research from the Australian Association of Graduate Employers. The annual AAGE employer survey, carried out by research firm High Fliers, polled 185 member companies during August and September. [...]
YouTube is being utilised by a number of employers to attract new staff, and some of their videos involve “Lip dubbing” which seems to be attracting GenerationY candidates to roles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWhUeAy35qc is an example of a popular lip-dubbing team promiting their organisation. But does this really work? Are candidates really attracted to this type of promotion? I couldnt help [...]
When you are introduced to someone for the first time, there is a window of 4-14 seconds to create a good first impression. If a poor first impression is made, it will take this person a further 21 encounters for them to change their mind about you. With this in mind, it pays to create [...]
One of the most common styles of interviewing, is to ask “behavioural based questions”. Whilst this is a common line of questionning in interviews, many are still under-prepared. Not knowing what to expect can lead to more nerves which will have an impact on your performance in the face to face interview. This line of [...]
ProGrad attended the B&T awards on Friday 4th December as a proud sponsor of the event, and presented the award for “Young Achiever of The Year”. The award was presented to Bruce Mundell from Mindshare. Other award winners on the night were: Interactive agency – Deepend DM agency – Mercer Bell Experiential agency – Chieftain [...]
ProGrad are currently recruiting for a few organisations based in Singapore who are keen to kick start their graduate recruitment drive in early 2010. One organisation in particular, is a technology services organisation who are looking to grow their business development team in the APAC region. This is a great opportunity for high levels of [...]
B2B Sales (or business-to-business sales) is the transaction from one business to another. ProGrad specialise in placing graduates into B2B sales roles across a variety of industries. We place graduates into the IT sector, media, FMCG, Phamaceutical, Finance, Events and Entertainment…just about any industry. The roles however, are all pretty similar. Our graduates are responsible [...]
ProGrad have certainly felt our own growth over recent weeks as companies start to launch large recruitment drives, but we’re by no means alone. ProGrad have seen a large increase in demand for recruitment companies in every sector to grow their teams also. We’ve hand selected several organisations who are looking to recruit graduates to [...]
One of the key recommendations made by ProGrad to candidates, is simply to remain “open minded” when looking at career options. With limited commercial experience, it is hard (as we all know) to identify the best opportunity for you needs. As a recent graduate, we recommend opening as many doors as possible, not closing them. [...]
