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Making The Most of a Candidate-Short Market.
Posted on January 26, 2022
I have a milestone birthday tomorrow. A big one. The sort that really makes you reflect, and feels like the culmination of years of counting down to it. The gravity of this milestone was heightened by a new search we won and commenced last week – a fantastic MD role for an eCommerce fashion business, […]
The War For Talent Goes Cultural
Posted on January 25, 2022
2022. Three weeks in and already it’s the year of [alleged] illicit parties and the Chinese ‘James Bond’ (who turned out to be a 58-yr old female solicitor). It’s also the start of the most candidate-driven market place I’ve seen in 25 years, with more people working than ever and more job vacancies than job […]
31 Hacks to Help Your Next Career Move
Posted on September 3, 2019 2 Comments
Today, approximately 8.3m school pupils return to school for the new school year. If the other 8,299,999 were anything like my 10yr old daughter, the end of another summer and beginning of the new school year brought a mix of emotions – part excitement, part dread. At the same time, 31m adults likewise ‘return’ to work after summer, many returning to […]
First Impressions. 13 tips & why you should look at your feet when meeting someone.
Posted on September 27, 2018 28 Comments
“You have less than 30 seconds to make a first impression”. An old adage that everyone got taught as soon as they were expected to make an impression. Is it right? Or is it 7 seconds like my old school careers guidance counselor repeatedly repeated? (whilst wearing hush-puppies and a corduroy jacket with at least 20 […]
Why Recruitment Is Like Gin
Posted on April 2, 2018 28 Comments
Seemingly the world’s most tenuous subject for a blog? But bear with me. Gin really is the same as recruitment,….. As anyone who knows me will testify, the only thing that can challenge my family and my business for space in my life is Gin. Gin is my Kryptonite, what started as a means to […]
Recruitment Grid Girls?
Posted on February 16, 2018 8 Comments
Last week signalled the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote in the UK, thanks to Manchester’s Emmeline Pankhurst. A landmark moment in sexual equality, arguably THE greatest landmark in UK history. It paved the way for the first sitting female MP in 1919, and the first female Prime Minister in 1979, all of which […]
Dear America….
Posted on November 11, 2016 28 Comments
We feel your pain. You didn’t get the President many of you wanted. You didn’t get the President most of us wanted you to get. But as President Obama predicted, the sun still rose on Wednesday. It rose again yesterday and today. It will rise again tomorrow. We now see protests, complaints and anger. Don’t […]
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 […]
31 Hacks to Help Your Next Career Move
Posted on September 16, 2015 7 Comments
Earlier this month, approximately 8.3m school pupils returned to school for the new school year. If the other 8,299,999 were anything like my daughter, the end of summer and beginning of the new school year brought a mix of emotions – part excitement, part dread. At the same time, 31m adults likewise ‘returned’ to work […]
Too Fat To Get A Job?
Posted on July 8, 2015 45 Comments
A recent conversation with a business journalist started with the bizarre comment that her research had uncovered that ‘Fatism’ didn’t really exist in recruitment. I nearly spat my Gin & (light) Tonic out. Fatism exists in life, and most certainly in recruitment. First Impressions count for everything. I blogged on this subject last year and […]
20 tips to turn your next Video Interview into an Oscar winner
Posted on May 7, 2015 9 Comments
It’s over 50 years ago that JFK defeated Nixon in the first ever, televised presidential debate. JFK won, not just because of what he said, but because he and his team knew how to manage that new medium. He knew that a blue shirt played well on screen, Nixon just wore his standard white and […]
“I’m ‘oot” – What now for Scotland’s ousted MPs?
Posted on April 30, 2015 4 Comments
If yesterday’s polls are to be believed, the SNP are about to reclaim Scotland, predicted to win every one of the 59 Scottish seats. Big political statement, a potential Tsunami over British Politics,….and a worrying invasion over English politics and political power if Ed Miliband [or his union backers] happen to a) win the largest […]
Manchester Mayor: Please, Not Another B****y Councillor
Posted on November 11, 2014 25 Comments
So Manchester is getting its devolution. Great news. Another first for the UK’s second city. As part of the deal, we also get a Mayor, our own ‘Boris’ to oversee Greater Manchester in a similar fashion to the remit the real Boris has overseeing Greater London. I was asked to speak (to rant on a […]
What to do WHEN you get HeadHunted….
Posted on January 6, 2014 4 Comments
We’ve all been HeadHunted. It’s flattering, but when that all important call comes from a true Corporate HeadHunter…are you ready? This could be a genuinely life changing experience, many of these calls I have made have ended up making the recipient a (multi)millionaire. ….So how do you make sure you are not caught off-guard, pre-screened […]
Getting Noticed by and Networking with HeadHunters
Posted on January 3, 2014 7 Comments
Would you sell your car and walk home if someone offered you enough money for it? If you wouldn’t, you are unlikely to be commercial in your life, or your career. Same is said for building a relationship with Corporate HeadHunters. Whether you are actively seeking to add to your own team, actively searching for a […]
Bale and Able?
Posted on September 3, 2013 18 Comments
Yesterday, Gareth Bale stood proudly in the Santiago Bernabéu stadium wearing his Real Madrid shirt. He showed his ball control skills, until he dropped the ball. But is he the only one? The move has been on the cards for months, and has had universal approval (even from most at White Hart Lane given the […]
Replacing Fergie
Posted on May 9, 2013 7 Comments
First the shock resignation of Pope Benedict; Then yesterday the announcement of (for some) an even more significant departure of an even bigger spiritual leader. Sir Alex Ferguson. Early yesterday morning when Sir Alex’s retirement was still just a rumour, one of my fellow gym goers commented that he was sure that wasn’t an assignment […]
What’s wrong with women?
Posted on October 26, 2012 25 Comments
I love women. We all love women. Lord Davies wants us to make sure we have at least 25% of them at every party. Martha Lane Fox wants more than that. Viviane Reding wants even more still, and wants to enforce it with a 40% quota backed by European Law. I am of course talking about […]
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