For many years as a 360-degree recruiter, I have been trying to work out the sweet spot of advising clients when they should trust a recruiter to enter their process – and get the person they need. Over those years, I have gathered, maybe the obvious confirmed – A recruitment agency should not be the automatic… Read More
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At the moment, I think every recruiter and hiring manager is discovering something of a pickle with the hiring market. And with over 1 million jobs on the market live. What is really going on? Every conversation with hiring managers since June has been about the mystery of where the candidates are. See we all had… Read More
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Recruitment costs are usually judged by the number written on an agency invoice. That makes sense. The fee is visible. It is easy to measure, easy to question and easy to try to avoid. But the cost of leaving an important vacancy open is much harder to see. It is spread across the business through lost… Read More
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Hi! Happy new year, or if you are reading this in June, What’s the world like then? Did we survive April’s energy price raises? 2023, following on from what I call, 2022 – The hard year for recruitment. Is, and will probably be no different to 2022. There I said it, it’s sadly the fact of… Read More
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Ten years. A whole decade of running a business that started with me sitting at a computer on the first of January, writing the copy for a website I’d already secretly bought years before. Back then, I wasn’t building an empire. I was trying to build something that made sense for me, for clients, for candidates,… Read More
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Recruitment is not just about finding candidates. That is the bit everyone sees, but most hiring problems usually start much earlier than that. The role is not fully defined, the salary has not been sense-checked, the interview process may not get to the bottom of things, feedback takes too long, and by the time a decent… Read More
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