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Head Hunters tips 2 
An extensive, well presented and interesting CV wont be enough to get you an interview in the Public Sector. It’s an application form and the important section is Supporting Information. You need...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Apr 2025
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Some people are a lot better at the job than at being interviewed. 
It’s not unheard of for the best person not to get the job because their performance at interview let them down. By best person I mean someone who meets all the criteria has bags of experience and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Jul 2024
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The clue is in the Chinese proverb
It starts off as a possible missing person enquiry. Then as is often the case suspicion falls on the partner. Is this a murder investigation? The husband is asked to recount the events leading...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Sept 2022
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The gate at the bottom of our yard.
When I was very young, pre school,  I had a best friend who lived across the narrow alleyway behind our house. Every day at some point but usually after breakfast and lunch I would ask my mum...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Sept 2022
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From Rotherham with Love 
 Did you ever fantasise about being a spook. Working for the service. If you did I bet you didn’t think it would be like working for the LA! You would have to sign the Official Secrets Act but...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Sept 2022
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Knowledge Hub upgrade and redesign
After months of hard work, we’re thrilled to announce that the newly upgraded and refreshed Knowledge Hub is due to go live soon.  On the morning of Monday 19 September 2022, the updated...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  06 Sept 2022
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A new meaning to hitting the target
 You may have already come across this but for the half of the population not familiar with male public  toilets there are urinals with a difference in some locations. These urinals...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Sept 2022
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Cost of living crisis 
There are reports of employers giving their staff hardship grants, low cost meals and vouchers to buy their children’s school uniforms. Others have set up food banks, provided salary advances,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Sept 2022
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The obsessive manager
The head hunter is singing the praises of an individual they think is an ideal candidate for the Chief Executive vacancy. There is of course an impressive track record  but it’s the personality...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  29 Aug 2022
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Community Safety Charter
The Community Safety Charter is a means by which Neighbourhood Watch members, local residents, businesses, and organisations, agree to do whatever they can together to provide an environment...
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Maggie Lewis
Last updated:  29 Aug 2022
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The boy and his dog 
  In a post apocalyptic world a boy and a dog wander the wasteland scavenging. The boy/teenager in the absence of parents or any adult is uneducated and governed only by basic instincts,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Aug 2022
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Head Hunters tips 
Your application form gets you the interview your interview gets you the job.    The difference between a CV and an application form is that the application form is written specifically for the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Aug 2022
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Big personality Big ideas 
 This larger than life person is interesting therefore what they have to say is interesting. Whilst this doesn’t follow people frequently behave as if it did.  “ People don’t believe in...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Aug 2022
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Is being ambitious still a good thing? 
I set my self a target to be a Director by the time I was 50. According to research by the Family and Work Institute in the US most people stop jostling for promotion at 35 coinciding with...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Aug 2022
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Powered by People 
The corporate slogan prominently displayed on the recruitment advert was Powered by People. So what does this bring to mind, a treadmill or the John Lennon song Power to the People ? Do you...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Aug 2022
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Seek out the reluctant candidate 
Seek out the reluctant candidate who needs to be cajoled into accepting the position because they are not driven by naked ambition, they are not over confident, they will not see dissent as...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Jul 2022
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My Story
 A good story gets you an interview, expanding convincingly on that story gets you the post.  I didn’t always want to be a manager let alone a senior manager. In fact when I started out I...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jul 2022
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Top Gun and the Maverick Manager
  Thundering rock music,  super sonic jet fighters and a central character who is a rebel with a need for speed, Top Gun gives a lot of bangs for your bucks. But why are senior management...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Jul 2022
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 Diversity - The Phoney Version -looks different but isn’t 
The image is of someone frantically bailing out a leaky boat whilst water continues to pore in through the holes in its hull. There is a lot of effort but it doesn’t  make much difference. This...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jul 2022
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Learn  how to lose 
It’s Wimbledon so the sports pages have an interview with John McEnroe. He who was as famous for his on court tantrums as his skills with a racket. He was a serial winner who said he had to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Jul 2022
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