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Talent Acquisition

The Real Life of a Recruitment Mum

I go to bed on Sunday nights more knackered than when I finish on Friday evenings. My weekends start with me schlepping my daughters to stage school and horse riding (which is all done and dusted by Saturday lunch time) and like millions of other parents, I “sacrifice” my free time at the weekends to do…

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Talent Acquisition

10 Candidate Questions That’ll Make You Squirm (But Earn)

There’s nothing worse than working closely with a candidate and genuinely believing that you’ve found them the PERFECT role, only to confidently deliver them the offer and have a curveball hit you out of nowhere! They tell you that they’ve decided to stay at their current company, or that something else has popped up down the…

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Workplace

Get Used to Feeling Underqualified, Baby

Do you ever feel underqualified for your job? Like, you’re sitting in a meeting with a client who is waffling on about this and that and you deserve an Oscar because you feel so unbelievably out of your depth, but they don’t know that. It’s an out-of-body experience where you find yourself questioning everything you know and all…

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Employer Branding

How HR Uses AI to Uproot Unconscious Bias

Intelligent machines aren’t stealing our jobs – they’re making us better at filling them with right fit hires. The development of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword: we marvel at intelligent machines achieving bigger and better things, but at the same time, they’re starting to outcompete even human superstars at their…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

The Future of Tech Recruitment: Sourcing, Hiring and Retaining Top Talent

This post is sponsored by Technically Compatible.  Times have changed. We humans have never been more connected, and yet, never been more closed off. The dawn of technology has opened endless avenues to reach candidates and for a time made all our lives easier. Now, however, the information age has turned into the information overload…