Selhurst Recruitment

If you are trying to attract excellent sales people, but you can’t put together a proper commission structure, what are you doing?

If you apply to a job and they reply saying you need to send your CV in a different format and they know a guy who can help for a small fee, it’s a SCAM!

Never put your ID or passport number on your CV.

There are lots of scams targeting job seekers so be careful.

I’ve been wishing a connection on LinkedIn a happy birthday for years. Never had a reply until today. He’s looking for a job.

If you have the ‘open to work’ frame on your LinkedIn profile and a recruiter reached out to you - reply.

Don’t slow down on the job search, even though it’s near the end of the year. The work you do now will bear fruit early next year.

Was told the position was ‘urgent’ a month ago. Now reassessing the role, likely to go into next year. Happens too often.

Hoping that next week everyone will have realised 15 pages CVs are a thing of the past.

Someone I write a CV for, now wants me to apply to jobs for him. He seems to think it’s part of the deal.

It’s great to have ‘cocktail’ Fridays and ‘bowling Wednesdays, but what staff really want is more money.

Last quarter of 2026 - how many companies will decide to stop recruiting and look again next year?

Instead of rushing to fill a vacancy, take some time to think about how that role fits into the organisation and how it impacts other people. Sometimes companies just fill a role without thinking about the long term.

Treat people well during the recruitment process.

Just had someone reply to a LinkedIn message after 3 years. Amazingly, it turns out they are now looking for a job.

If you have 20+ years of experience, you are not going to be able to include everything you have done on your CV. Concentrate on the more recent experience and your achievements.

Saying the salary is ‘competitive’ doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know what it is ‘competitive’ against.

Candidate has sent me the ‘wrong’ CV three times. She wants to send me an updated version, but keeps attaching the old one by mistake.

You need to keep learning. If you are in a job and you haven’t learnt anything new in the passed year, then do something about it.

First CV I open today - spelling mistake on the second line. It’s not hard to check your spelling.