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The importance of giving interview feedback to candidates

In the dating world, ‘ghosting’ is when a person you’ve been dating cuts off all communication, with no explanation. You never hear from them again – you’ve been ghosted. It’s a cut-throat tactic, but it’s common enough to have its own name.    For this reason, it’s really important that employers don’t ‘ghost’ their prospective…

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Personality profiling and talent management: Getting the best and retaining the best

Finding, recruiting and retaining talent: perhaps the biggest challenge for businesses in the late twenty-teens. The war for talent is over, and talent won. Now businesses are on the back foot, trying everything to find the right recruits that will drive the business forward and stick around long enough to make a significant difference.  …

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identifi Global supports NeuroCyber:2

Identifi Global is thrilled to support NeuroCyber2, part of a series of events designed to grow the engagement, inclusion, and understanding of neurodivergent people whose skills are so suited to cyber.  What is NeuroCyber:2 and what’s it all about?    Our neurodivergent population has so much to contribute to the world of cybersecurity, but few…

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Data-driven recruitment: Should you be doing it?

  In a recent LinkedIn survey of 8815 recruiters and hiring managers, 65% said they use data in their hiring practice – with technology-driven campaigns one of the site’s key trends for 2018.   This makes sense. With hiring the wrong individual incurring costs of as much as £132,000, workplaces need all the help they…

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The rise and rise of personality profiling in cybersecurity recruitment

  In Ancient Greece, (c. 460 – c. 370 BC), the physician Hippocrates developed a theory that our temperaments were directly influenced by our bodily fluids. We know his test now as The Four Humors, each ‘humor’ representing a different fluid – yellow bile, black bile, phlegm (bear with us, we know this is disgusting),…

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There’s no such thing as a bad interview, only a bad interviewer

  Some love them, many hate them, but however you feel, the job interview is still the unavoidable cornerstone of securing a new role. The worst feeling is to come out of an interview thinking it was a catastrophe. But we’re here to tell you there’s no such thing as a bad interview, only a…

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