Live Event, Experiential and Brand Experience musings

Pretty much every recruiter (in-house or agency) will promise to recruit “the best talent”. I like the phrase as it uses 2 key words that interest the reader ‘best’ and ‘talent’, however I also think it's a load of sales tosh. For regular readers of my posts you’ll...

As search specialists all of our work is on either an exclusive or retained basis so we’re lucky we can invest time and money into helping our clients with this challenge. When passive candidates are approached by agencies there are usually 2 methods that will...

Well, what a week that was! Now the weekend is out of the way and the four horsemen haven’t showed up it’s time for us recruitment folk to have a long hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves two questions; 1. What does this mean for me? 2. What am I going to do...

It’s much easier and cheaper for companies to do this themselves, agencies just use LinkedIn then send a CV over so you’re paying a search fee for very little searching. You won’t be surprised to hear that someone who runs his own search and selection agency doesn’t...

So it’s been 9 weeks since I returned to the world of recruitment and I’ve noticed something; people outside of the sector do not seem to like us at all. Even those within the sector seem to have created sub groups whereby internal recruiters don’t like executive...

Now this might seem a strange topic.  After all, none of us would set about deliberately losing our jobs – we might resign and move onto pastures new, we might retire from work altogether or we might decide that the company we are working for is not the right fit for...