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Our blog is designed to enable us to post our own content, principally in the form of news and resources, and to showcase other parties' quality content in the areas of talent acquisition, talent development, and career development. 

We're also open to publishing guest posts. If you'd like to propose a post, please email us (with 'FAO Anthony: guest post' in the subject line) to discuss the idea.

Improving recruitment processes: Afrah Qassim of Savera UK

Anthony Haynes writes: Hearing how organizations have worked to improve their recruitment practices can be both fascinating and instructive. Savera UK is a leading charity working to end ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) and other culturally specific abuse and harmful practices in the UK. It campaigns to eliminate all such practices for good, while also providing life-saving direct intervention services to survivors and those at risk. In the latest episode of our podcast, Recruitment in...

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Practical guidance on how to optimise your CV: free webinar

Anthony Haynes writes: There’s plenty of advice available for job-seekers on how to write CVs. But if you merely follow the standard advice, the risk is that your CVs will turn out looking much like everyone else’s. So we've decided to provide a free webinar based on our experience of reading countless CVs. The session will provide advice on how to stand out from the crowd. The webinar will be hosted by Dr Bart Hallmark and co-presented by our Managing Director,...

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How best to present yourself

Anthony Haynes writes: On our podcast, Recruitment in the modern world, some episodes are aimed at employers and some at employees or jobseekers. In both cases, we seek to publish 'evergreen' material - that is, content that retains its value over time. We think that's true of an episode we published a year ago: Presenting yourself: 'self-branding'. In it, Sherah Beckley (pictured) and I seek to present techniques to help convey who you are and what you can do. In particular, we consider...

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