One Vision Housing has created a new in-house maintenance service creating up to 100 new jobs.
Since Connaught PLC went into administration, One Vision Housing has been exploring the best ways to provide essential front line services to its customers. In order to increase their services, One Vision must recruit approximately 100 new staff.
If you read online forums, magazines or websites aimed at helping line managers, you get an interesting insight into the mindset of an interviewer. An increasingly common headline confidently suggests employers ‘should hire the attitude and train the skill’.
This is why your behaviours, attitudes or personal traits, are so important at interview. Skills can be taught, but an employer can’t make you get out of bed each morning. With teamwork being so important in today’s organisations, having the skills or experience to match is not enough.
A person’s value to an organisation is not just the value from their own work, but also the value they bring to others. Good attitude is the glue that sticks a team together.
Before attending an interview, learn to manage your attitude. This means your enthusiasm, motivation, positivity, integrity and a genuine interest in the company you are applying to. Even simple things like manners – thank the interviewer before and after the meeting – can make an impression.
An interviewer will look to assess your experiences, skills and behaviours. You probably have the interview on the basis of the interviewer being attracted to the skills and experience outlined in your CV. Hence the focal point on attitude at interview.
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Santander, the ever growing high street bank is to place greater emphasis on individual branch managers to hire their own staff directly.
The bank is thought to be planning to hire an additional 600 new staff to its branch network. This is thought to be an initiative to lead to more successful hires seeing that branch managers will then have greater responsibility for those new employees.
The boss of Stena Line, Pim de Lange, has called British employees ‘quite fat and tatooed’ and claimed that it was becoming difficult to locate British workers who are young enough and fit enough to do the job.
British unions have been up in arms in response to the statements and De Lange later regretted any offence caused.
The demand for senior level IT staff has continued to rise even though there is ongoing doubts as to whether the UK economy will face a second dip, much expected by many economists.
IT recruiter IntaPeople recently reported that requirements for senior IT positions in August soared by 39%, compared with July.
