Welcome to the Sense Recruitment blog.
Interested in recruitment? Trying to find a great recruitment agency that gets it? Looking for a job in Perth? Well, you are in the right place, because Sense have been in the recruitment game for 9 years, and have some secrets to share. We will lift the lid on all things recruitment: the recruitment business, how to attract and retain quality talent to your business, how-to tips for candidates, your personal and employer brand and much much more.
How to Professionally Turn Down Candidates
Not Rejecting Candidates Is Killing Your Brand! How exciting is it to recruit a new person? It’s because there’s so much potential for them to grow the business, evolve your culture and maybe change everything [...]
Helping Perth’s Homeless
Sense Recruitment is proud to support Homelessness We Care – Perth. Jane Armstrong and her partner Sim started as a Homeless Food Run on a Tuesday night. These wonderful people and their group of supporters [...]
Bringing Clients and Candidates together for 12 years!
In 2007, Sense-IT was formed with one goal in mind: to deliver a high touch, high quality service to not just meet, but exceed, the recruitment demands of businesses in Perth whilst providing a great [...]
Most of our Clients are Executives
Most of our Clients are Executives Transcript Almost all of our clients that we work with at Sense Recruitment are executives as well. And because we've built relationships with them, not just relationships but I [...]
Win Win Win
Win Win Win Transcript When we established Sense Recruitment 10 years ago, right from the very get-go - vision, and mission and values, were always a very important part of who we were and what [...]
Sense Values
Sense Values Transcript The number one is making meaningful connections - and that's all about networks. But having authentic genuine conversations, and us really caring about, whether it's a company or whether it's a candidate, [...]
It’s a candidate’s market at the moment
It's a candidate's market at the moment Transcript It's a buyer's market, or it was a buyer's market a couple of years ago, and probably even 3 months ago. Things have changed again. The market [...]
Help us help the homeless
Hi Everyone, The nights are getting cooler here in Perth. Help us help the homeless by donating a warm sleeping bag or blanket. In conjunction with Homelessness We Care – Perth, we are rallying to [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Announcing Sense Executive
One of Perth’s leading recruitment agencies, Sense, has launched its new Executive Search Division; Sense Executive. Sense is excited to bring the brand to life in answer to increased demand for a high-touch search experience from the Executive [...]
3 Tips for Panel Interviews
Transcript One of the biggest challenges faced by the concept of the panel interview is that candidates can feel overwhelmed, intimidated and nervous when entering the interview situation. So these are my three biggest tips [...]
10 years in business is worth celebrating.
Surviving 10 years in business is worth celebrating, through the highs and low, here’s how Sense Recruitment has built their success.
Cost and Risk of Hiring the Wrong Person
If you use these particular tips, you can mitigate poor hiring processes and hopefully you won’t have to go through the pain of rehiring.
1 Amazing Tip to Use SEEK.com to Help You Stand Out! [Video]
Transcript: Hi it’s Anita from Sense Recruitment, in today’s video I just wanted to share some tips for anyone who’s at a cross-roads in their career. We get referred people an awful lot (particularly [...]
People vs Paper – Don’t judge a CV by its cover (letter)
Transcript: Today I'd like to talk about the request for interviews and hiring manager engagement with referred candidates. We read a lot of CV's here and one thing we find is that it's been [...]
How to build a strong partnership with internal recruitment teams
When companies are looking for their perfect candidate, it makes sense that they spread their search far and wide. Many businesses have relished in the fruits of cohesive partnerships between their in-house recruitment team and [...]
To Avoid Hiring a Bad Attitude, You Need to Read This
The last thing you want is a negative employee bringing down the vibe of your workplace Have you ever noticed how the recruitment game is a bit like the dating game? At the start, you’re [...]
First Impressions are EVERYTHING – Tips on engaging Perth’s Best People [Video]
Transcript: My top tips for any organisation that is looking to find top talent: It’s really important to build a relationship with a recruitment company that understands talent and talent pooling and who really [...]
Interview Tips: Prepare like a PRO [Video]
Transcript: My biggest tip on preparing for a crucial job interview is to get as much information as you can before you enter that room. I find the best source of that information is the [...]
Expert Advice: Recruiting for your Start-Up
Gearing up to recruit staff for your start-up? Hiring your first staff member is a BIG deal. We know how much hard work and dedication it takes to get to that point. The hard work [...]
Why Top Talent is Walking AWAY From Your Business
There’s never been a truer saying than, ‘first impressions count’ when it comes to recruiting the top talent, the best of the best. If your hiring process is slow and sloppy, the top talent will [...]
Why Having GOOD References Are Crucial For IT Recruitment [Video]
Transcript: Here at Sense Recruitment we actually do references before we submit a candidate to a client and there are two main reasons that we do this: The first is that a reference is a [...]
Perth Recruitment Insights: Reject Them or Die
Rejection is HARD. It’s hard to receive, to give… it’s hard for some to overcome… and as I sit here and type I’m discovering it’s also hard to write about. Working at a recruitment agency [...]
3 Ways Recruitment Takes Your Brand to the Next Level [Video]
Transcript: "Hi I’m Anita Pages-Oliver from Sense Recruitment, we've been partnering with businesses here in Perth and offering quality recruitment solutions since 2007. When Sense gets to partner with a business it's about trust, it's [...]
Perth Recruitment Insights: How LinkedIn is helping and hurting your talent attraction efforts.
We’ve seen the fortunes of the Perth recruitment industry fluctuate over the years, especially with one of the city’s major industries – resources – taking a bit of a nosedive. We’ve all seen the tumbleweed [...]
The Number ONE Reason We Love Recruitment and How It Helps You [Video]
Transcript "For me the most compelling part of the role that we play as a recruitment consultants is, yes we get to help companies, but it's really the individuals - and we get referred people's [...]
The ONLY Reason To Work with a Recruitment Agency [Video]
Transcript: Hi I’m Georgie from Sense Recruitment and today I'm here to answer some questions for you. A question that I get asked a lot is “why do I do what I do and why [...]
Recruitment Sucks (or does it?)
In an industry that deals constantly with rejection (both giving and receiving), peoples' livelihoods and unarguably copping the most amount of 'haters' than any other profession. Recruitment can suck. But not today. Today, recruitment is [...]
PURPOSE: Why employees come & go
The power of purpose when it comes to attracting and retaining employees is so huge. I've been reading about 'purpose' a lot recently. Both for my own self-awareness and to help me in the art of [...]
KEYBOARD WARRIORS AND YOUR EMPLOYER BRAND
THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYER BRAND. The competition for talent is real. Now more than ever before, companies around the globe are competing for their greatest assets – their people. What enables them to win this [...]
Questions You Should Ask of a Recruiter Who Calls You About a Job?
What company are they recruiting for? (If you’ve already applied directly to that same company, they would usually not be able to represent you there.) Find out everything the recruiter knows about that company. If [...]
Structuring your CV for Success – Keywords are King
The industries I work across in Perth have taken a huge hit resulting in a higher applicant:role ratio than I've ever seen. Some of the executive campaigns we have run this quarter have attracted over 300 [...]
Structuring your CV for Success – Part 1.
A big part of my job working with candidates is responding to the question 'how can I improve my CV'. And at the request of many of my connections, I've put together some info on what [...]
My 2 cents: SEEK Talent Search as a recruitment tool.
Funny story: I received a voicemail message last week from an IT Recruiter, who happens to work for one of our biggest competitors in Perth. He left a message telling me about an awesome telesales/appointment setting role that he thought [...]
Mind the gaps (on your CV)
Gaps in CV's. I'm not the first to discuss them. I've seen many articles on 'How to explain the gaps in your CV' and I thought I'd put my two cents in. So here it [...]
