How To Recruit Accurately and Avoid Bad Hires
As a recruitment and retention coach, clients often come to me having experienced a recruitment failure. In fact, 85% of HR decision makers admit that their organisations have made recruitment mistakes.
Bad Hires Are a Waste of Time and Money. Don’t Rush Into Things!
Our workforce is fragile – with a severe talent shortage predicted for the UK post-Brexit. How can we protect our teams and organisations from the changes that many believe are just around the corner?
The Future of our Workforce … How the World of Work is Changing
The world of work is changing, and so are candidates… What skills will they need? Persistence and curiosity says Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google. But how can we attract these top candidates and identify who to hire?
The Beer Test: Has The Humble Pint Given Recruitment Managers Beer Goggles?
There has been a rise in The Beer Test where a candidate is invited to join the team for lunch or a drink, in order to test-drive them and see if they can get on with colleagues in a more relaxed, social setting. How accurate is it? Find out more …
Miss-hiring Leads to Firing… How to Avoid Common Recruitment Mistakes
Recruiting has personal and financial costs that we often don’t think about. The results of miss-hiring are significant.
Using ‘Blind Recruitment’ helped me see hidden potential
What exactly is “Blind Recruitment” and how can you find your ideal candidate without being able to see? I trialled the approach on a senior role with surprising results!
Job advert not attracting right candidates? The Power of Words
Words have power. They have the power to make or break someone’s career or send your business down the pan. When writing a job advert, it’s important to consider the long term.
What’s Your Workplace Culture? How to Recruit the Right Candidates for your Team
There are plenty of models and research available around how to identify who will fit into your workplace culture when recruiting. But when it comes to the crunch time, do these really apply?
Job descriptions: best practice is boring
One of the biggest and most common mistakes most companies make when hiring is that they don’t seriously think about the type of person they are looking for and what they specifically need them to achieve before jumping into the recruitment process with neglected job descriptions. Most job descriptions are