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Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 11:02am On Sep 21, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: I thank God you are posting this based on your personal experience and not on general practice. Honestly I feel sorry for your clients because they have miss out individuals who would have made a difference based on your so-called experience. I read an article about a young man who became CEO of a robotic company at the age of 26. Do you know how he was recruited? Through linkedin in a discussion where the boy was proffering solutions to problems. It will interest you to know that this boy is not a graduate. There is no HR expert that will advice you to disregard an application based on an email address. If I were you I will start looking for creativity potentials from this. I taught best practice advises you shortlist based on the ability to do the job. 2 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 8:02pm On Sep 21, 2018 |
TRUSTEDGUY:What you don't know is more than you, and if you don't understand how recruitment process works for mass employment for entry positions, then just ask. Thank you. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 8:11pm On Sep 21, 2018 |
klexycole:You know software are not as intelligent as humans and can't understand a CV the way a human mind does. So for a single CV it assumes automatically that the CV is not rich and that is true. For an average Nigerian CV, your personal profile alone would occupy half of the front page, and your educational history would occupy the rest, so if you can compress all your details (personal profile, education history, working experience, skills, e.t.c that means it is not that rich. I guess you also know that Google algorithm ranks websites with thin contents lower? |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by klexycole(m): 9:49pm On Sep 21, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: But it is said that Résumés shouldn't be too long either. I learned that keeping it short, clear, concise, and simple with necessary ATS keywords is the best. Might be that the normal standards are totally different from the one with have in Nigeria. I'm open to learning, sir. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by bolagabriella: 10:38pm On Sep 21, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: Thanks for this, i remember when i graduated and i didn't have any idea about putting a cv together, there was no one to help. What you are doing may seem little to some but it goes a long way to helping others. I got an invite for a job interview and i replied requesting for reschedule stating my reasons but till date they didn't get back to me. Pls do mention me if you are reqiested to fill the position of microbiologist or quality assurance/control officer or laboratory analyst. I am a fresh graduate with B.Sc. in Microbiology, although i have already started my Masters program, i am looking for an opportunity to start my career. Thank you. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 11:35am On Sep 22, 2018 |
bolagabriella:The truth is entry level positions rarely get a reschedule, unless you are lucky. I wish you good luck. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 11:36am On Sep 22, 2018 |
klexycole:You are right, but it shouldn't be 1 page, the best for entry position is 2 but don't exceed 3. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by bolagabriella: 12:07pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig:Oh ok. Thanks. I wish myself goodluck. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by klexycole(m): 3:37pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: Noted sir. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by poshestmina(f): 5:06pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
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Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 8:19pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: I understand the recruitment process perfectly. From manpower planning through to offer . And there is no HR best practice that supports your view . I can confidently say that your advice is based on your personal bias not on best practice. 1 Like |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Queenmark: 8:49pm On Sep 22, 2018 |
Nigerian Recruiters or HR professionals or whatever you call yourself you guys you have turned yourselves to mini gods. You go for an interview the way someone will even talk you because you are looking for a job is pathetic and at the end what they have to offer is zero. They tell you to do 1million things just to get a job 2 Likes |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 5:49am On Sep 23, 2018 |
TRUSTEDGUY:Ok. Hopefully by the end of 2nd week of Feb, I would take delivery of my promotion letter and this would make me one of the youngest in the history of our company. I am less than 30 and I have only been with the company for less than 10 years. January I am going to UK for the mandatory training. I was certified to practice in Nigeria few years ago and next year, I would be fully certified to practice in UK. I didn't get there by being stupid or getting intimidated by what people think of my process. 1 Like |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by EdoBoy90(m): 10:42am On Sep 23, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: OfficialAPCNig, please still remember us, me and the other guy as promised by you. Kingsley. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 8:03pm On Sep 23, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: You have an impressive resume no doubt but I am not moved by these because you merely harness the opportunities that came your way . As far as am concern if you are as good as you claim you would have moved to more strategic function in HR . I am not an HR practitioner but l knew the field inside out. If I were to take up a career in HR I would have prefer more strategic functions like Organisational design and development , Talent management and development , Employee Relations and Negotiation, Training and development, before your recruitment and selection. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 6:22am On Sep 24, 2018 |
TRUSTEDGUY:So the promotion, what do you think it is for? Achieved in less than 10 years. That is a record itself. What do you understand by strategic HR roles? Anyway I head my organisation's star team, if you understand what that means. We handle all those responsibilities, except Organisational design, which is a separate Team and all the Teams are under one Department headed by a Senior management staff and luckily I am joining that cadre next year. Currently, I am on the same level with the Head of Organisational Designs and he has close to 20 years experience in the field. I hate talking too much because it would seem that I am being arrogant for grace I attribute only to God. I thought you are even into HR. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 6:25am On Sep 24, 2018 |
EdoBoy90:I would reassign you to someone else. I wouldn't be around to handle that process again. Keep reminding me. Thank you. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 11:16am On Sep 24, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: As a CIPM practitioner aspirating for CIPD I was expecting real technical questions. OK. A star team is a high performing team and comprises of high performing and high potential individuals. They are usually valued by their organisation. Before I answer your first question I will like to clarify something. Strategic function is different from strategic roles. A strategic role is the role responsible for the long range planning of the business and it determines the wellbeing of the business. In HR they are usually positioned in areas where key HR data are synthesised and interpreted or they are key decision makers. Although you claim to handle activities in the strategic functions but I can clearly see that it is in a transactional role. You are probably Head of HR services. Comparing yourself to Head of Organisational design is akin to a Head Nurse comparing his/her self to a Head medical doctor. Do you think your organisation is a fool for keeping an individual with close to 20 years in that role? He/She is the strategic head of HR. Since I have answered your question let me ask mine. What are the advantages of P-O fit to P-J fit in recruitment. What is the difference between Talent Management and Succession Management. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 7:19pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
TRUSTEDGUY:I can't descend to that level with you. Believe whatever you want. But before I leave you, let me help you. Strategic simply means long term. Organisational Design is a function within HRM just like Recruitment and Selection, Training and appraisal. Design is one boring work. Recruitment is as strategic as Designs. This is because even if you come up with the best design and Recruitment is unable to fill up those roles with smart pips, you just wasted your time. But without Designs Recruitments would know the roles to start filling for and the requisite skills. Like I told you before, I am currently on the same level with our Head of O.D and I got my promotion first. This is the farthest I can go with your game. I am not on Nairaland to run a race rat. I am here to bash APC and whatever they represent. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 8:38pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: Then go and BASH the APC. Form your explanation you are not in a strategic role. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by slimbless(f): 10:26pm On Sep 24, 2018 |
@OfficialAPCNig Thank you so much for this post. Pls I'd like to know the differences between Resume and CV. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by EdoBoy90(m): 7:17am On Sep 25, 2018 |
This platform is getting interesting every seconds, minutes and day. I am following OfficialAPCNig and TRUSTEDGUY assiduously. We are here to learn from other disciplines in addition to our engineering accumulated experience and capabilities. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by kunlesmiles(m): 10:24am On Sep 25, 2018 |
Sir, am a graduate of Pure and Applied Chemistry, am also a masters degree holder in Industrial Chemistry, and I don't seem to be getting any invite, could my age be one of reasons am not getting an invite,am 32 years old, what can I do to increase my chances of getting a job. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 6:40am On Sep 26, 2018 |
TRUSTEDGUY:Are you sure you even understand what this term you have been throwing around careless is? Strategic roles are those roles carried out strictly to achieve long term objectives. Tactical roles are the day to day performance of strategic roles. Strategic roles are geared towards business sustainability. Every function in corporate HR is strategic. Like I said before, I am not playing this rat race with you. I defended my Masters thesis 3 years ago and I am not going to do that on Nairaland again. Thank you. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 6:45am On Sep 26, 2018 |
kunlesmiles:Is it in education? If yes, where are you based? |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by OfficialAPCNig: 6:55am On Sep 26, 2018 |
slimbless:We don't use a resume in Nigeria and nobody is going to ask you to submit one. Resume is just a summary of your CV and it is usually a page. This is the reason I always advise people not submit a one page CV. One system would filter it out thinking it is a resume. We only ask for resume for advance roles and successfully shortlisted candidates would be asked to submit a CV. I hope this answers your question? |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by kunlesmiles(m): 7:09am On Sep 26, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig:my degree is B. Tech not B. Ed, I can work in an Industry and I can also teach, am presently in Kogi State, but am open to relocating .thanks for your response |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 7:18am On Sep 26, 2018 |
OfficialAPCNig: Let me clarify you using recruitment as an example. Strategic roles deals with long term planning in the case of recruitment it entails man power/workforce planning, new skills requirements, Organizational interventions and they are done by the executives Tactical roles are not day to day functions as you claim but mid-term roles in the case of recruitment would entail high potential identification, candidates sourcing channels, using recruitment analytics to improve the process and it is undertaking by management typically GM and snr managers . Finally we have the operational roles which involved the day to day functions of recruitment like screening of CVs short listing of candidates interviews and the likes handle by recruiters NOT all roles in corporate HR is strategic. Corporate HR depends on the size of the organisation. smaller organisation will have all HR functions in corporate but larger organisations will have just strategic functions and roles in corporate and other distributed within the business. AND to remain you you've not answered my question. Abi you no know am? |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by dramaticspeak(m): 12:27pm On Sep 26, 2018 |
I agree with @officialapcng. Every function in corporate hr is strategic. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by woodfrank(m): 1:18pm On Sep 26, 2018 |
TRUSTEDGUY: Baba, it seems you are ever ready to help. Please I need your help. Please pm your email. Thank you. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by TRUSTEDGUY: 3:08pm On Sep 26, 2018 |
dramaticspeak: Including HR Administration, Payroll, Recruitment and employee welfare? No body fit catch me mugu again I don know everything for HR. Tell me why did the NNPC outsource recruitment? Because it is a transcational role not transformational . I repeat not all HR roles are strategic that is why organisations outsource those transnational roles to save cost. The strategic roles are those roles your clients companies will never out source. |
Re: Interview Etiquette 101: My Personal Experience As A Recruiter by Fabuloski(m): 3:09pm On Sep 26, 2018 |
souljaboi51: please sir, I am an undergraduate and I will love you to elaborate about these applications and algorithms. Thank you. I will be sending a mail for future purpose if that cool with you |
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