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Even Santa Can’t Fix Recruitment Advertising

Posted on January 8, 2026 Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, I posted a joke festive job advert. A confidential search for an Interim Chief Logistics Officer (Peak Trading Transformation), based in Northern Finland, offering ‘seasonal goodwill’ as part of the generous remuneration package. It was deliberately tongue-in-cheek, and obviously so. A moment of festive frivolity. Subtlety wasn’t the point. And yet within 24 hours […]

Gambling with Murdoch

Posted on April 11, 2016 11 Comments

Take a look at yesterday’s Sunday Times appointments section….or rather, the appointments page, gone are the days when it had its own section. It now struggles to even fill a whole page. And yet, there is still approaching £100,000 worth of advertising contained within that one page, with each advert costing £10-15,000. Amongst them only one quotes […]