Tit Bits
Tit Bits
It is FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED; not first come first serve!
It is FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED; not first come first serve!
What’s the colour of your voice?
As a Recruitment practitioner, I always conduct (and recommend) telephone interviews first, after resumés have been sieved through, before the initial face-to-face interview.
This is because, for me, the quality, cadence and ‘professionalism’ of the voice goes a long way to ascertain if candidate A will be invited over candidate Q. I look for the punch, the verve, the right dose of ‘aggression’, that voice-quality that tells me that this prospective employee knows what s/he wants.
Copper or gold: who are you?
Many years ago, I read a passage in the Opus Dei handbook which compared gold to copper. It held that gold is much higher in value, but copper serves a better purpose.
The rhetoric question; copper or gold: who are you? had resonated within me over the years.
