How to be Happy – Time to call off the “Engagement”
“Yes that’s right, we had a one hundred percent response rate to the survey.” The speaker from a international airline proudly stated his results. His lovingly compiled pie charts labelled “Engagement” were resplendent in the Power Point behind him. The audience were incredulous, a one hundred percent response rate how was it possible they asked?…
The Bidding War for Talent – When Motivation is More Than Money.
The war for talent is a term coined by Steven Hankin of McKinsey & Company in 1997. It has since become a cliché. It’s used as both a rallying cry and a cause for concern for HR and recruiting professionals everywhere. Whilst the “war” metaphor is overused and without appreciation of the nuance of hiring…
The Mis-Match of Algorithmic Recruitment
It’s the not so distant future. A mobile app linked to a wrist mounted wearable wakes you, at precisely the right moment. It monitors your sleep patterns and pulse rate and greets you each morning with a chipper “Go get ’em!”. You dress and get ready to leave the house, the fridge has emailed to…
Why the Recruitment Revolution won’t be sparked with Tinder – Candy Crush for your Career?
The world of HR and recruitment software seems to be going through something of a renaissance as of late. The world that was dominated by user-unfriendly bloatware is becoming increasingly fragmented. As more players rose to fill the gaps in usability for a beleaguered audience so smaller competitors rose up too. For a small provider…
The Magic of the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator – The Technological Panaceas of Hiring that aren’t.
Hiring is scary. Hiring is a risky process that we all know can do irreparable damage if we get it wrong. There are countless studies that all make the case that a false positive is more damaging that a false negative. It’s hard to “undo” a bad hire. So how do we mitigate against this?…
7 Myths About Great Résumés
When friends find out I work in recruitment they often have a lot of questions. They might ask for funny stories, the strangest applications I’ve seen, but it’s never that long until I’m asked if I’ll look at their own resume. Sad though it may seem, I don’t mind doing this, actually I quite enjoy…
The Talent Hacker’s Manifesto
Nick Marsh of Lostmy.name recently introduced the term Talent Hacking. His contention was that hiring was broken and there existed a movement towards a new way of thinking. How did it come to this? Why is it that the world of recruitment can be called out as broken with no argument to the contrary?Long ago in…
Metrics that Matter
Firstly apologies to those of you that aren’t quite as geeky about the numbers of recruitment as I am, I’ll be back to ranting about the misuse of Pinterest for recruitment soon. As I promised previously I wanted to give a little insight into those individual statistics that go to make up the metrics I…
The Itchy Security Blanket of Recruitment Metrics
The rise of more intuitive technology enabling the recruitment process has made for an interesting corollary – a rise in an organisation’s ability to collect and report data connected to the recruitment process. The increasing data driven programmatic approach to recruitment can do much to aid in the design and selection of a recruitment strategy.…
On “Culture” – “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means”.
How many job adverts currently advertise a “great culture”, “a start-up culture” or a “Google-like culture”? It seems as though the only company not shouting about how Google-like their culture is are Google themselves. It’s a particular bugbear of mine at the moment because it’s not only a trite cliché it’s also meaningless. “Culture” as…