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.
Candidate attraction is not recruitment
How many CVs do you get in response to your job postings? How many CVs does your recruitment partner send you per live role? If these are the metrics you use to judge the success of your recruitment strategy, trust me, you’ve got this recruitment thing back to front....
What is the future for recruitment?
It’s all robots surely?? With the so-called recruiter-replacing AI and ‘disruptive’ tech (read shiny) we continually read/hear/are shouted at about, it comes as no surprise that recruitment is again being looked at as something transactional rather than something that...
#noagenciesplease
You’ve probably seen this alongside job adverts or posts on this platform when people have a new vacancy opening. Whenever I see it, I always ask myself… Why? Why no recruitment agencies? Why bother with saying please when really you want to put… “look recruiters, we...
Why can’t LinkedIn be a bit like Facebook?
“This is not Facebook" Four words that make me instantly think, “look out, it’s the fun police”. I understand that people posting pictures of a cheese sandwich saying how great their lunch is can be a bit much, however what if they were having that sandwich during a...
Why retained or exclusive search is often a better model than contingency perm recruitment.
I feel there is a wind of change coming within the recruitment sector and if you’re a recruiter you need to be prepared and if you’re a company looking to recruit senior staff in the future it would help to know what your competitors already do. Where is the wind...
Why Jordan Belfort could be damaging your business.
Jordan Belfort is not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy For those of you who don’t know who this guy is, this is his Wikipedia opening paragraph. Jordan Ross Belfor (born July 9, 1962) is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker. In 1999, he...
