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.
Have you got ‘Time to hire’?
I get that everyone is really busy at the moment, and diaries are totally stacked; BUT everyone wants to recruit and we all know that recruitment is vitally important to get right. So why does recruitment end up being a side of the desk job – something to be looked at...
How to do a Killer Interview Part 2: The Employer
In last month’s column, my advice was targeted at the job seeker, so for this month, I’d like to share some advice for the employer / the interviewer. First things first, all interviewers have to remember that the interview is a two-way thing; it’s not just a process...
How to do a Killer Interview Part 1: The Job Seeker
Job seekers tend to assume that the interview starts and ends with the face-to-face meeting, but there’s lots you can do before and after to make sure you stand out. It’s worth me pointing out early on in this column that I believe interviews now should be conducted...
No over 50s please
Why ageism seems to be an acceptable discrimination… We all rightly talk about the next generation of event profs and we all discuss the talent pipeline – and by that we mean the people coming into the industry at the beginning of their careers, as graduates or...
How do you do fellow kids?
Millennials (those born between 1981 and ‘96) were apparently the second largest age group to leave the workforce during the pandemic. We all know that we need next generation employees for our businesses to flourish, so how do we attract and retain Millennials? The...
Personalisation
As we settle into post pandemic life, there’s one thing we can all agree on: there is no back to normal. Employers need to embrace the biggest mindset change of the last decade; one hundred thousand people are not coming back into our industry, and attitudes and the...
