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Aug 18, 2021

How to start and run a recruitment agency — part 1

Why should you start a recruitment agency? When I told my parents that I want to leave my cushioned, well-paid, relaxed software engineering job, my dad thought that I am crazy. They raised me to become an engineer, just like my dad, and I got a very lengthy education as an MSc in computer science. …

Recruitment

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How to start and run a recruitment agency — part 1
How to start and run a recruitment agency — part 1
Recruitment

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Jul 30, 2021

How To Bond With Tech Candidates

Hung Lee invited me to talk on the Brainfood recruitment show on “how to build social capital with programmers”. The show airs today here, and will be available on replay at the same link. While gathering my thoughts, I wrote this article. What is social capital? Wikipedia says: “the networks…

Recruitment

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How To Bond With Tech Candidates
How To Bond With Tech Candidates
Recruitment

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Jun 29, 2021

How to be less depressed as a recruiter: Treat work more like a craft

Recruiters are rarely proud of what they do. Most do it solely because the money can be great. It is no surprise that depression among recruiters is common, and the high level seems to be unique to our profession. I don’t remember that my dad, an engineer, would ever complain…

Recruitment Agencies

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How to be less depressed as a recruiter: Treat work more like a craft
How to be less depressed as a recruiter: Treat work more like a craft
Recruitment Agencies

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Jun 4, 2021

Recruitment agencies: What is your added value?

What is the biggest added value of agency recruiters? If you ask me, it’s de-risking candidates on behalf of the clients. Depending on how long you have been in recruitment you may reply to me: Well, yeah, you could say that, or you could try to put yourself in the…

Staffing

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Recruitment agencies: What is your added value?
Recruitment agencies: What is your added value?
Staffing

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Dec 27, 2020

Five bad incentives recruiters have and what job seekers can do about it

When there is big money involved and little chance of getting caught, people do immoral things. As a recruiter, I am often faced with such a dilemma. In over five years in this business, I wasn’t honest or ethical all the time. When I use the term “recruiter” I refer…

Recruitment

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How recruiters (can) destroy your chances to land a job
How recruiters (can) destroy your chances to land a job
Recruitment

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Sep 12, 2020

As a web developer, should you switch to a more niche field?

In my day job in technical recruitment I talk to dozens of tech firms and hundreds of software engineers every week. Some developers think the web domain is crowded with too many developers and that salaries will go down because of it. I was asked by a reader if it…

Careers

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As a web developer, should you switch to a more niche field?
As a web developer, should you switch to a more niche field?
Careers

10 min read


May 3, 2020

The Essential Video Meeting Guide

This is a guide I wrote with a professional editor to sell it but we decided to publish it for free. Enjoy: You might think video calling is trivial. You just switch on a camera and then have a meeting. But there is so much more to it. Once, I…

Remote Work

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The Essential Video Meeting Guide
The Essential Video Meeting Guide
Remote Work

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Mar 15, 2020

Toilet paper shortage? Learn how to hygienically clean your butt without toilet paper 💩

👉 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/toilet-paper-shortage-learn-how-to-hygienically-clean-your-butt-without-it-a875cbb06cbe

Toilet Paper

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Toilet Paper

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Mar 15, 2020

Toilet paper shortage? Learn how to hygienically clean your butt without it

Why this article? The toilet paper shortage made me write this post how you can hygienically clean your butt with water and your hand only. After reading this educational post, you won’t need to buy paper anymore, so you can avoid supermarkets. So, the likelihood of you being trampled to death for toilet…

Pandemic

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Toilet paper shortage? Learn how to hygienically clean your butt without it.
Toilet paper shortage? Learn how to hygienically clean your butt without it.
Pandemic

11 min read


Feb 16, 2020

Why recruiter spam works and why you might as well stop complaining

tl;dr; The incentives of employers, job-seekers and recruiters don’t align and won’t change. Platforms like LinkedIn make the situation worse by giving the tools to scale spam. To understand why recruiter spam exists, one has to look at the incentives of all players involved: Employers, recruiters and platforms like LinkedIn…

Recruitment Agencies

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Why recruiter spam works and why you might as well stop complaining
Why recruiter spam works and why you might as well stop complaining
Recruitment Agencies

6 min read

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