An Uncomfortable Truth about Sourcers
Something is rotten in the state of modern sourcing. The sourcing community at large is brilliant. When I was in Budapest last year at SourceCon, the world’s largest sourcing get together, I’d never experienced the types of familial bonds they shared when I’d been to broader, general recruiting conferences. They were supportive, actively encouraging and…
Nothing compares to EU; More Brexit Musings
Friday, the 24th of June, 2016, wasn’t like the usual Fridays we’d had at work. The tech startup I worked for was successful, but still relatively small at 105 employees. What made it feel much larger was the 38 nationalities who worked alongside me in my daily work life. Fridays were traditionally about a longer…
Brexit Through The Gift Shop
With just months to go until the UK leaves the European Union, and no deal yet in place, many employers continue to worry about the possible impact of Brexit on UK businesses and the labour market. Although 25% of UK businesses currently employ staff from the EU, an August 2018 survey reveals that over 50% of UK…
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…