I'm the Head of Operations of Document Direct, a virtual secretarial service working for Liverpool's top businesses. I'm a great believer in hard work=great results. I am now also a gadget freak and am constantly finding uses for new technology to help me work smarter. I don't understand people who refuse to adopt or adapt remain ignorant to the effects of it on their business.

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Digital Dictation and the psychology of application forms

All of this blogging and and gobbing (if that is a word for using your mouth instead of your fingers to type I mean), seems to be paying off when it comes to receiving applications. You do get what you ask for and so far I've received six new application for a position with Document Direct since the New Year. Not bad considering not a penny extra has been spent on recruitment.

I've re-designed the whole application procedure and have sent out my new application form to some possible candidates already. Now comes the hard part. Receiving the completed (or incomplete, as the case may be) forms and resisting the temptation to return it and ask the candidate to DO IT PROPERLY PLEASE. Obviously the name of the game is to filter out the wrong personality type for the job. I'll only find out if it works though, if I receive a form that is completed properly and the candidate is successful through the whole process. I am so, so impatient.

Come on people - ask me for an application form!

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