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The job brief meeting that went from hell to heaven.
Although I’ve had many hundreds of job brief meetings (or intake meetings for any American folks looking in), I’m getting…
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Should recruitment agencies be bothered about the candidate experience?
Depending on what statistics you read, some 55% of applicants believe the standard of recruitment practice has declined. I’m surprised…
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How to deal with clients who try to lowball you.
Hiring companies regularly try to lowball agency recruiters. I think it’s because they think recruiters just hit F5 on our…
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A lot of hiring managers have a warped sense of entitlement when it comes to hiring.
And many of them can be quite demanding – sometimes unreasonably so. Some of them view the job brief meeting…
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The Recruitment Rush
There are two polar opposites on the ‘How To Fill A Job’ spectrum. At ‘Point A’ you have the scenario where you…
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The phrase “top talent” is meaningless
I wish our industry would stop using the phrase “top talent” in their content marketing. That’s because I think for…
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Is LinkedIn contributing to the dumbing down of the recruitment sector?
Today I saw this doing the rounds on LinkedIn. It’s an article on how to attract candidates to your job postings,…
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Do you have an artistic side?
Recruitment can sometimes be quite boring. It’s a relentless sausage factory, pumping out hour after hour of tedious tasks; sales,…
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It’s the little things…
One of the things I’ve learnt over the years is that effective recruitment is usually the result of lots of small…
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Institutional Corporate Arrogance.
‘Institutional Corporate Arrogance’ is a phrase I came up with a few years back, after years spent looking for reasons…
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More Hiring Managers need to be called out
If you want to write better job ads, you need to be having more conversations like this one with hiring…
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Job boards should stick to what they’re good at
What job boards are good at is processing job ads. What they’re bad at is giving advice on how to…