What recruiters look for on LinkedIn

Recruiters look for specific searchable keywords, recognised job titles and measurable impact on LinkedIn — and then check that your location, availability and career history match the vacancy they are trying to fill. Your profile is not simply an online CV. To a...

Professional reviewing a LinkedIn profile to understand what recruiters look for when searching for candidates.

Candidate Experience That Builds Trust

Candidate experience is how job seekers perceive and experience an organisation's entire hiring process — from finding a vacancy and applying, through screening and interviews, to the final decision, the offer and onboarding. Trust is what that experience either...

Recruiter and job candidate discussing a professional recruitment process designed to build candidate trust

Interview Preparation With AI Tools

AI can make interview preparation more focused, personalised and practical — but only when it's used to strengthen your real experience, not manufacture answers you can't back up. Instead of trawling through generic question lists, candidates can now feed a job...

Candidate using AI tools for role-specific interview preparation and mock interview practice.

Reducing Hiring Risk Before Interviews

Reducing hiring risk before interviews means using the early recruitment stages to gather enough credible evidence to justify progressing a candidate — not eliminating every risk before you ever meet them. A bad hire rarely starts in the interview room. It usually...

Recruiter reviewing structured candidate screening criteria before scheduling job interviews.

How To Prove Transferable Skills

Quick Answer: How do you prove transferable skills to an employer? Transferable skills become credible when you connect each claim to evidence. Show where you used the skill, what you were responsible for, what changed because of your actions, and how the result can...

Professional demonstrating transferable skills with measurable career evidence during a recruitment process

How Recruiters Screen CVs Quickly

Quick Summary: The 10-Second CV Scan Recruiters screen CVs quickly by looking for relevance before detail. During an initial 7 to 10-second scan, hiring teams check your professional title, recent experience, hard keywords, and essential qualifications to decide if...

Recruiter screening a CV quickly for job title, recent experience, skills, and measurable achievements.

10 More Recruitment Screening Questions to Prepare For

Recruitment screening questions beyond the basics usually test your motivation, workplace fit, career direction, judgement, resilience and professional credibility. Prepare to discuss other applications, preferred work arrangements, manager fit, conflict, rejection,...

South African candidate preparing for deeper recruitment screening questions with a recruitment consultant