A Recruiter's Job is Easy! Right?!

"There is an absolutely wonderful children’s book called 20 Heartbeats about a painter who paints a horse for a very wealthy man. I hate to ruin it for you, but I have to say what happens.

The rich man pays this famous painter to paint his favorite horse. But years go by and the painter won’t finish the painting. The rich man finally shows up at the painter’s house and demands the painting. The painter obligingly whips out a piece of parchment, dashes off a horse in black ink with his brush, and then hands the painting to the rich man. All this takes less than the time of 20 heartbeats.

The rich man is, of course, aghast. He storms after the painter to demand his money back. However, as he walks after the painter, he sees what has been taking so long.

All along the walls are hundreds and hundreds of painted horses. The painter wasn’t procrastinating, he was practicing. The rich man then finally takes a look at the painting that he purchased so long ago, now in his hands. It’s a perfect horse, a horse so real that he whistles to it.

As every art form takes discipline and practice to look easy, every kind of work takes years of diligence to perfect. Recruiting is no different, but few professions look so simple. It’s really hard to pass along a piece of paper, right? You can almost hear hiring managers thinking to themselves, “Yeah, I’ll bet your fingers are really tired from dragging all those resumes from a folder into an email. Real hard work.” Few jobs seem so easy to duplicate.

For the rest of the article, go to: http://www.recruiter.com/articles/why-recruiting-looks-easy/

Acknowledgement to Miles Jennings, CEO of Recruiter.com

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Everything in the (Recruitment Industry's) Garden is Rosy!

Current statistics relating to the recruitment industry include:

• Turnover in temporary/contract staffing has returned to 2006/2007 levels at £22 billion compared to its low point last year of £17.8 billion, a rise of 24.1 per cent
• Permanent recruitment also rallied to reach £2.5 billion in the past year, a massive 37 per cent increase on £1.8 billion recorded in 2009/10
• Volumes of perms placements rose by 38.3 per cent from 436,822 last year to 604,193 in 2010/11 while temp placements were up 19.3 per cent and top the million mark again at 1,049, 333 compared to 879, 000 last year
• The number of people working in recruitment has gone up 13.1 per cent from 80,528 last year to 91,114 this year
• The REC’s Medium Term Forecast predicts the recruitment industry’s annual growth at 3.6 per cent next year (2011/12) followed by 4.7 per cent in 2012/13, rising to 7.1 per cent for 2013/14 and 7.3 per cent in 2014/15. This represents a return to single figure growth over the next four years to reach a new peak of £30.8 billion in 2014/15.

Source: The REC Annual Recruitment Industry Trends 2010/11.

http://www.rec.uk.com/about-recruitment

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Why 2012 will be The Best Year Ever (Part I)!

Hope will triumph over reality:
Stephen Hawking, the world's most famous living scientist and a symbol of the triumph of willpower over adversity, has celebrated his 70th birthday, revealing he did not learn to read properly until he was eight years old, and that his school friends had made a bet that he "would never come to anything".
Guardian 8 January 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/08/stephen-hawking-70-cambridge-speech?intcmp=239

The End of Ageism (old people can still cut the mustard):
Arsène Wenger described Thierry Henry's match-winning return to Arsenal as the stuff of dreams after the French forward, on his first appearance for the club in almost five years, scored with his fifth touch to propel his side into the FA Cup's fourth round.
Guardian 10 January 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/10/thierry-henry-arsene-wenger-arsenal-dream

Andy Murray will win a major tennis tournament:
Andy Murray is excited about what the future holds with his new coach, Ivan Lendl, after preparing perfectly for the Australian Open with a victory in the Brisbane International.
Guardian 8 January 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jan/08/andy-murray-brisbane-international-lendl

Postscript 27th January 2011 14.00: Maybe next time Andy! Ed.

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Why 2012 will be The Best Year Ever (even if it's not!)!

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
(Richard Dawkins: Unweaving the Rainbow 1998)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins

Which reminds me:

Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies (one notable exception being Kievan Rus), although currently only 58 nations actively practice it, with 96 countries having abolished it (the remainder having not used it for 10 years or allowing it only in exceptional circumstances such as wartime)

... over 60% of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, inasmuch as the People's Republic of China, India, the United States of America and Indonesia, the four most populous countries in the world, continue to apply the death penalty (although in India and Indonesia it is used only rarely).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment

This writer (speaking only for himself) calls for the immediate and total abolition of capital punishment worldwide! Life's just too precious!

Have a great year in 2012, just because you can!

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Hot Jobs

At the Labour Party's 1963 annual conference, Harold Wilson made possibly his best-remembered speech, on the implications of scientific and technological change,in which he argued that "the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated measures on either side of industry". This speech did much to set Wilson's reputation as a technocrat not tied to the prevailing class system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson

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Australia's Michael Clarke hits unbeaten triple century against India

The Australia captain, Michael Clarke, made history at the Sydney Cricket Ground to leave India fighting to avoid defeat in the second Test.
India reached 114 for two in their second innings at stumps on day three, a day dominated by Clarke's remarkable unbeaten 329.
Afterwards, Clarke said he had never considered batting on beyond 329, despite having Don Bradman's highest innings record of 334 – a figure subsequently matched by Mark Taylor – within his grasp. On a benign wicket, he could even have threatened Brian Lara's world record unbeaten 400.
"I didn't have Don Bradman and Mark Taylor's score in my head whatsoever," he said. "I'm stoked to have managed to make 300-odd runs today in this Test match, but the most important thing for me now is that we win the Test and that was a big reason for my declaration.
"It's about putting the team first, that's why we play, that's what I love most about this game, seeing this team win. If I had thought it was best for the team to continue to bat, I would have continued to bat."

The Guardian 5 January 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jan/05/australia-michael-clarke-triple-century?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Willing to put the team - your team!..your company! first..are Seltek's Hot Candidates, not quite as hot at cricket as Michael Clarke, but definitely very hot!

Scientific Sales & Marketing Division

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