Personal PR is a way to keep yourself at the top of your audience’s mind. It doesn’t just apply to landing a dream job, it could also bring you incredible speaking opportunities and brand collaborations. Our friends at SOCIATE, a communications agency headquartered in Dubai address some questions that can help send your personal brand soaring off the ground.
CONGRATULATIONS! You have an interview!
We understand that interviews can be stressful at the best of times, but the switch away from face-to-face interviews to those conducted by applications such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams throws up more challenges.
Follow our 10 Top Tips for a Successful Video Job Interview to help you get that job!
We are seeing a regional trend of jobs being offered to market at lower salaries than ever before and overall packages being squeezed. We recently ran a survey asking our vast LinkedIn network whether they would take a salary cut. ***A quick note here about Inspire...
You have been trying to fill a role for a long time, but no one is quite hitting the mark, could it be that you are being too narrow with your requirements? We find it is very much a Middle Eastern issue, as brand new candidates from overseas coming into the region...
You’ve decided that you want to start a new career, or perhaps you’ve been looking for a while but that perfect opportunity hasn’t arisen yet. Perhaps you are between jobs and you now have time to improve and develop on your career/life skills. Now is the ideal time to start developing your skills.
Inspire Selection is delighted to announce that Carolyn Ross has joined the agency to head up the Digital Recruitment Team. Carolyn has been recruiting in the Middle East since 2008 and therefore has a substantial understanding of the recruitment market specialising...
As we begin a new year, many employers are seeking fresh new employees to help them to recover and build their business. As recruiters, we support our candidates to perform their best by briefing them on interview skills however, we also find that that a great...
Now that 2020 has drawn to a close, we look back on the successful placements we have made last year and the diverse make up of candidates we secured jobs for. Whilst it has been an unusual and unsettling year, we are proud to say that we still managed to change many...
Everybody could do with some kindness at the moment and whilst the world has been stumbling to catch up through a global pandemic, we have been overwhelmed to see acts of kindness within our own circles.
Last month, many employees who were expecting a return to full pay received notice that their cuts were due to be extended until the end of the year, resulting in the real prospect of some families existing on 50% pay for 9 months.
GCC university staff report feeling positive about the future of Higher Education in the GCC despite expecting ‘a new normal’ in post Covid education. The Higher Education team at Inspire Selection recently surveyed a group of GCC Higher Education Professionals to get their thoughts on how the pandemic will change how they deliver Higher Education in the region.
Attitude or experience? Which do you hire on? Which would get you hired?
For recruiters, the longstanding question remains – who makes for a better hire – someone with the perfect experience, or someone with the right attitude?
Research shows us that amongst customer facing staff, the majority of people who fail at their role is not down to lack of skills or experience but rather down to their ”attitude” towards customers/management. Skills and experience are easy to demonstrate on a CV, however follow these top tips to prove to potential employers that you also have the attitude to positively impact their business.
Calling all Higher Education/University staff in the GCC. We are surveying the Higher Education community to understand how the changes imposed by the Covid19 pandemic will affect the industry. All responses are confidential and the final results will be shared via...
Inspire Selection surveyed a group of people living in Dubai about their experience of working from home for the past few weeks. 6% always worked from home, even before Covid-19. 32% cannot wait to get back to the normal place of work. Explanations for this include:...