How to Build a Toxic Culture in your Start-up
Are you a founder of a company? Recently promoted MD or CEO? Would you like to shake things up and do things in a new way? Wouldn’t you like to replicate what the truly great companies you’ve read about online do? Building a great culture means happier people, more productivity and better decor! What’s not…
How much does an in-house recruiter make? How much could they make?
Recruiters see a lot of salary surveys. Each year new ones are produced and we spend time looking at them and nodding sagely, all the while wondering if they are at all reflective of the truth. Salary surveys have never really gone far enough to explain any real context for their findings. Most often the…
Ready for the GDPR? Make sure your best asset doesn’t become a liability!
By now we’ve all heard the panicked screams and collective gnashing of teeth that is the industry’s response to the GDPR. For many HR departments the date has seemed to sneak up on them despite their best efforts. Though they are still hastily drawing lines on the org chart between legal and HR they are…
Shitty reasons for choosing an ATS
There are many reasons you might find yourself looking for a new ATS. Speed, efficiency, usability… but how did you end up with the last one? The software you’ve chained yourself to for the length of that hastily agreed contract has become a millstone around your neck. So before you leap head-first into another awkward…
Your Talent Tech Stack for 2018
We’ve come a long way. There are increasingly few of us that remember the wilderness years before LinkedIn arrived. There are still fewer who remember writing things down with a pen and paper. Whilst there are still those who cling to older technology or who will forever sing the praises of “banging the phones” there’s…
The Thought Leader’s New Clothes
“Thought Leaders” are the celebrities of mundane arts. Whilst pop stars fill stadia and the Hollywood elite dazzle on the silver screen the world over, there are those that covet a decidedly smaller stage. Whilst the children of ancient Athens grew up admiring the philosophers of the Agora, and the youth of the Renaissance had…
A Model for giving Feedback
I’ve been asked recently about how to implement a more formal process for feedback in a growing organisation. A lot of the time these processes are reliant only on a few members of staff who value the importance of people management and can be sporadic at best. For those that are uncertain of giving and…
The Next Big (Data) Thing: Awaiting the Robo-Revolution
As the quest for the shiniest silver bullets in recruitment continues the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and “Big Data” are proving to be a great hunting ground for salesmen and sensationalists alike. To the trained eye these fields are distinct and separate, yet when selling a solution that makes a claim in one…
Data and HR – Numbers are Nothing Without Insight
Managing employees and an HR function requires a more holistic approach than exploring issues from the surface. People use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost – for support rather than illumination. – E. Houseman (1903) Our online activity has meant a ubiquitous lens is shone on our lives where the accessibility of data leaves…
“You’ve got to have an Algorithm!” A Recruiter’s Guide to the A-word
Even if you only have a casual interest in the world of hiring it’s not long before you’ll encounter someone touting a magic bullet, a panacea for the “broken” world of recruitment globally. Currently riding high on the buzzword bingo cards of these self-styled saviours is the humble “algorithm”. This isn’t the algorithm you might…