Show industrial strength
13 September 2012
Recruitment firms love to hire salespeople because they believe they’ll expand the business quicker. But recruiting from the sector you’re hiring for – or a different industry altogether – could prove more lucrative in the long term
As a probation officer, Jennie Dawson found herself listening day in and day out to horrific tales of violent crimes committed. The setting for these disturbing conversations was, more often than not, a prison.
As Dawson recalls, her most harrowing experience in two years on the job involved interviewing a sex offender so that she could offer a suggested prison...