Proving that there has been age discrimination is tough, particularly at the recruitment stage.
Yet women are out performing men at university and, in many sectors, at the graduate recruitment stage.
"Internationally oriented companies recognise the significant importance of language knowledge at recruitment stage and further into employment.
"Even when the main trafficker is male, they often use other women during the recruitment stage to lure women into a sense of security".
At the recruitment stage, we look at emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills – we want people who understand the impact of their behaviour on others.
But when we externally judge success, for instance at the promotion or recruitment stage, are these the metrics that are used?
Concordance between seed rain and seedling recruitment was affected by the heterogeneity of population-dependent forces acting upon each recruitment stage.
Paul Young, director of Grad-Careers Ltd, recommends using this space to "communicate an extra point or two about why you should be selected for the next recruitment stage".
It is a growing issue: recent research conducted by the CIPD showed that two out of five employers look at job applicants' online activity or profiles on sites such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn at the recruitment stage.
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According to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), two out of five employers look at job applicants' online activity or profiles on networking sites at the recruitment stage.
