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Acquiring Talent
22 September 2025
The Job Interview – It’s Not About You
Part One: Attention Hiring Managers Great Candidates Are Scarce Not just good ones, the great ones. The kind who elevate teams, shift culture, and deliver results. If you’re lucky enough... Read more...
1 September 2025
Applicants Aren’t Candidates
Why So Many Hiring Processes Fail Before They Begin Overheard in a corridor the other day. A hiring manager was speaking to their Talent Acquisition Partner:“None of the CVs you... Read more...
1 May 2025
Build or Buy?
What’s Your Underlying Talent Strategy? Every effective talent strategy must tilt toward either building talent internally or buying it externally. Both paths are valid. Both come with strengths and risks.... Read more...
10 December 2024
If you want to increase diversity, don’t recruit with an ideal candidate in mind
We have written before that in our line of work we see a lot of Position Descriptions that aren’t worth the paper they are printed on (or the kilobytes they... Read more...
26 November 2024
Don’t Buy a Dog and Bark Yourself
The 10 Must-Haves for Effective Recruiting Partnerships The never-ending rise in social media (LinkedIn, Meta et al), the supporting technology, and the globalisation of talent (some jobs can be done... Read more...
12 November 2020
“You have too much experience”
We’ve heard that line from a couple of people lately. They had applied for vacant roles with high profile companies and were screened out early in a recruitment process.... Read more...
8 July 2020
Talent budgets are tight. Time to get back to basics.
Many HR teams are winning high praise for the role they have played in keeping their organisations functioning through COVID-19. They have worked incredibly hard and fast to ensure those... Read more...
6 November 2019
People Join Managers and Leave Managers
Late last century Marcus Buckingham gave us the insight that ‘people join companies and leave managers’. Times have changed, people have changed and it would appear that Buckingham’s insight has... Read more...
26 August 2019
The Recruitment Strategy Type Indicator
Since the dawn of time, we have found ways to describe and categorise people. From the four temperaments of the Ancient civilizations – sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic – to the latest... Read more...
26 July 2019
The Major Forces at Play Against Retained Executive Search
The way we find Talent is changing. The rapid growth of LinkedIn and the democratisation of candidate research has been one of the most disruptive forces in search and recruiting... Read more...
