Hiring, and the craft of writing about it.

I wish our industry would stop using the phrase “top talent” in their content marketing. That’s because I think for…

Do you want to get a lot fewer unsuitable job applications? Of course you do. What are you, a masochist?…

Today I saw this doing the rounds on LinkedIn. It’s an article on how to attract candidates to your job postings,…

Recruitment can sometimes be quite boring. It’s a relentless sausage factory, pumping out hour after hour of tedious tasks; sales,…

I saw a job posting today for a Full Stack Developer. Those kinds of jobs aren’t easy to fill, are…

I recently did some coaching work with a recruiter.  One of the things I urged him to do was invest…

One of the things I’ve learnt over the years is that effective recruitment is usually the result of lots of small…

‘Institutional Corporate Arrogance’ is a phrase I came up with a few years back, after years spent looking for reasons…

If you want to write better job ads, you need to be having more conversations like this one with hiring…

What job boards are good at is processing job ads. What they’re bad at is giving advice on how to…

Yes, that’s an inflammatory title. Sorry. We’re pretty sure you’d say: “No”. But it’s more complicated than that. You might…

Are you trying to attract someone to move sideways? From a job somewhere else that’s a similar level to the…