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  When people tell stories about themselves, you can discern a lot about how they interact with the world, and, in particular, its challenges. Although far from providing a complete picture, I would like to first mention four main types that I have met over the course of 16,000+ interviews during my recruitment career:  …

  I am prompted to write about this topic as yet another candidate has shared with me their suspicions around their most recent interview process. I’m confident many will identify with the problem…the elephant in the room no less!   Have you ever gone to an interview and felt that they were interested in understanding…

  Just because the mechanism of recruitment has transformed over the past decade, it doesn’t mean that the ethics have changed with it.   Candidates have as much of a right to confidentiality as they ever have, and it is up to our industry to regulate itself in the face of overwhelming temptation to cut…

The weeks leading up to Christmas are often the busiest in my year. Contrary to popular myth, recruitment doesn’t take a month’s break in December/January, and actually it can be a great time to hire and integrate someone into your business. You’ll still need that Marketing Director come January 1st. The Sales team is still…

Corporate agency recruiters the world over are obsessed by numbers. Some aren’t, but the majority are. They have had 78 CVs submitted. They will have a two-minute conversation (no longer) with 16 of them. They will submit 7 for first interviews, and if they are lucky, they might make a placement and earn some commission….

The best executive recruiters are trusted intimately by their candidates and clients. They are trusted by market leading executives to secure them a role, and trusted by clients to compile the best possible shortlist of talent. They are ambassadors, negotiators, psychologists and consultants (in the truest sense of the word). Their work is based on…