AI can support, but it won’t fix human job briefs Did you miss me? While most were summer holidaying, I had a hiatus to write my memoir, The Damage of Words. I also launched Beyond The Damage of Words podcast for perfectionists, people pleasers, masked, labelled, people whose emotional needs…

How will we be seen in so much content sameness? Thanks to the state of the economy, many recruiters are now on the receiving end of countless poor business development messages. Attempts similar to the poor candidate messaging I have been begging recruiters to stop doing for years. The type…

Is this something you have even considered? Is your use of GPT giving the right impression? Last week I saw a comment about me and my book that blew me away. I took a screenshot and shared it on FB and Instagram, because the words moved me. Truly moved me. I believed the words. But after a conversation with…

Because your irreplaceable time is valuable! So is it a waste of your time or a hiring solution? Take your salary and divide it by the number of weeks you work. Then divide that by the number of hours you work each week. e.g. £60,000 ÷ 48 weeks = £1250 per week ÷ 45 hours per week = £27.77 per hour. What’s…

What’s the gain? Truly. What do you gain by allowing poor manager behaviour? I’m still on my global talent acquisition training adventure with Sue Ingram and we were nattering about manager behaviour — especially towards recruiters — especially when managers misbehave. Because that’s what it is. Behaviour. Behaviour that does not belong in the hiring process and impacts everyone…

You are if you are exhibiting this self-sabotaging behaviour! In-house recruiters & talent acquisition, read this to your hiring managers — especially those who are acting crazy and self-sabotaging. This past week, yet again, I was chatting to a lovely talent acquisition pro who couldn’t get her manager on a…

With confidence and a boundary! — I opened a can of worms. After each edition, lovely readers send me more stories! So it’s a good job I like venting here every other week because sometimes I feel like I’m just howling into the wind, hoping that anyone involved in hiring would just, quite simply, be kind. …

We women need to stop doing this too 😬 — As many readers know, I am writing a new book called Conquer Hiring. It is for all managers and leaders (not recruiters) and will focus on the easily fixable things they can do to make this hiring malarkey better for everyone — especially themselves (and us!). Choosing to start it…

Who comes up with 💩 like ‘we never hire rejected candidates’? — ‘Our company’s policy is to never hire rejected candidates’ 😲 I sometimes fear I’ll run out of things to rant about each fortnight, and then I hear a doozy like this. Is that not the biggest load of crazy you’ve ever heard? Never hire rejected candidates? …