by John Purser | May 31, 2016 | Blog
Sharing best practices the way this company has should happen more often. We interview people everyday and everyone of them are questioned on their lean manufacturing skills. When a manufacturing business hires these days, one of the main requirements is to have a...
by John Purser | May 5, 2016 | Blog
Resume format is something that I constantly discuss as feedback with candidates after their interview, whether it be content, the name of the file, the structure and lastly and what this post is about…file format. I came across this older article on...
by John Purser | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog
What makes every individual in the engineering & manufacturing industry or life in general is different for everyone. The below image is interesting because it gives certain traits that either lead you down one path or the other. I am certainly guilty of some...
by John Purser | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog
I thought I would share this article I read on statistics in recruitment. Very interesting. The two points that stick out the most to me are: It takes an average of 27 days to make a new hire – and this is an all time high. The best candidates are off the market...
by John Purser | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog
I saw this tweet from @UndercoverRec and it is something that comes up with every hire and I believe that it truly comes down to both. A lot of our clients come to us because they need a specific skillset. Our goal here @JPRecruitmentCA is when we sit down with our...
by John Purser | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog
This is an interesting video on how @Heineken got creative with their interview process. Now, I am not saying that you need to be as drastic as what we see in the interview but how many of you have gone through the same old questions time and time again. Lets be...