Live Event, Experiential and Brand Experience musings
Here you’ll find recruitment news, plus event and brand experience commentary
This is where I share my insights based on 20+ years observing and experiencing the sector’s recruitment challenges and opportunities.
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Disclaimer: I’m not the oracle, no one knows what’s really going on.
“I have a Black friend.”
It makes me cringe even typing that, but yes, I have uttered these words before when discussing racism. I’ve even gone so far to utter the immortal “I don’t see colour”. But I never got near “all lives matter” because that’s just plain nuts, isn’t it? Or is it? This...
Social recruiting is the present, not the future.
If the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, then the best time to start recruiting is before you have a vacancy to fill. Every company needs to have a recruitment policy which is created and implemented way before they need to recruit, and one major part of...
Recruitment isn’t broken beyond fixing, it just needs a bit of tweaking.
By jove, I think I've cracked it. Recruitment gets a bad rep and unfortunately, nine times out of ten it’s deserved. So, I’ve come up with a six-point master plan to restore some credibility to the whole sector and in turn, make life easier for everyone. You're...
REACH Event Scholarship Launched
A new university scholarship has been launched to encourage black, Asian, and minority ethnic talent into the events industry. The REACH Event Scholarship has been launched in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) to provide a fund for students...
Talent shortage? What talent shortage…
People are saying there’s a talent shortage in our industry. Well, I disagree. Whilst it is true that of the 250,000 event profs who were made redundant, 10% (25,000) will not be returning, we don’t have a talent shortage, or even a people shortage; what we do have is...
Diversity is more than Shutterstock pictures on a website
D&I is a hot button topic right now and rightly so, but what exactly can you do when only 3.5% of the sector is from a black or brown background. I can count on two hands the amount of black or brown people I worked with during my seven year event career and on...
