by Katrina Collier | Mar 25, 2025 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Recruiters, is it AI snake oil? For those of us who experienced the previous recruitment fads, the trend of placing AI in front of everything is all too familiar. Of course, this means we have also been around the block and have a healthy cynicism about what is real...
by Katrina Collier | Feb 12, 2025 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Initially, hiring is personal! Think about it. It’s your partnership with the manager, your understanding of who they need to hire, and your job to go and find them. You then engage, woo, convert, reassure, support, cajole and more to convert them from a...
by Katrina Collier | Jan 29, 2025 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Enough with ageism! Over the last year or so, I have seen ageism play out repeatedly in the TA profession against their TA peers. You’ve probably seen it too—hundreds of experienced TA pros knocked out of processes for lame excuses that barely shield the truth....
by Katrina Collier | Jan 15, 2025 | Recruitment Isn't Broken, Uncategorized
Can you substitute a recruiter with AI? Matt Ballantine wrote in a post last week: People will not be replaced by AI, but they might be substituted by technology. He went on to explain, “The distinction is important because the former implies a like-for-like...
by Katrina Collier | Jan 2, 2025 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Can we really stop hiring humans? On Christmas Day, ironically, a post appeared in my Instagram feed screaming, “Stop Hiring Humans!” The image below was the one that stopped me. Who in their right mind plasters stop hiring humans all over San Francisco? A...
by Katrina Collier | Dec 4, 2024 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Ditch ‘do more with less’! 🙏🏻 If there was a phrase to be ditched, I wish ‘do more with less’ burned in a fiery hell. At what point do leaders realise it’s unsustainable to do more with less and that people are burning out? That unhappy...
by Katrina Collier | Nov 19, 2024 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Tired of chasing hiring managers for feedback? A few days ago, I asked for the number one reason that recruiters have to chase feedback and received some excellent responses. As I would expect from such a talented TA pro, Jo Dellicott gave a great reply, ‘There...
by Katrina Collier | Nov 8, 2024 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
How do you create connection under a job applicant deluge? Last week, Glen Cathey shared an update about, “Anthropic’s Claude (via API) can now use computers the way people do – “read” computer screens, move a cursor, click buttons, type...
by Katrina Collier | Oct 21, 2024 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
What if your hiring manager isn’t? I’m concerned for talent acquisition pros after the BS of the 2020s so far. I see people-pleasing and keeping-head-low behaviour created by job insecurity. Burnout is rife. Good people are leaving the profession. Company...
by Katrina Collier | Oct 9, 2024 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Sh*t tech has no place in hiring! Prem Kumar gets me! He said before our Live that I am anti sh*t tech. 💪🏻 I remember smelly blue rollered photocopies in the 1970s, Beta and VHS players in the 1980s, and the excitement of owning a typewriter with a correction key in...
