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Recruiters, is it AI snake oil? For those of us who experienced the previous recruitment fads, the trend of placing...

Initially, hiring is personal! Think about it. It's your partnership with the manager, your understanding of who...

Enough with ageism! Over the last year or so, I have seen ageism play out repeatedly in the TA profession against...

Can we really stop hiring humans? On Christmas Day, ironically, a post appeared in my Instagram feed screaming,...

Ditch 'do more with less'! 🙏🏻 If there was a phrase to be ditched, I wish 'do more with less' burned in a fiery...

Tired of chasing hiring managers for feedback? A few days ago, I asked for the number one reason that recruiters...

How do you create connection under a job applicant deluge? Last week, Glen Cathey shared an update about,...

What if your hiring manager isn't? I'm concerned for talent acquisition pros after the BS of the 2020s so far. I...

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...

Too busy to create mapped processes? When talent acquisition is busy filling roles, just thinking about finding...

CandEx: Is it possible to calculate the cost? As part of my series of Lives celebrating the launch of my new...

Let's celebrate Reboot Hiring! THANK YOU! 🤩 I cannot get over how many recruiters and TA pros have already ordered...

Reboot Hiring is nearly here! I didn't plan to be an author. It came as a surprise but not in the way you might...

Another post using sexism to garner likes 🙄 It is 2024. The patriarchy is falling. Women are rising. We understand...

This is not being cruel to be kind. Reading about the cruel email from Intuit's CEO has left me worried about those...

Disrespected! This is for those recruitment and talent acquisition professionals yearning to be replaced by AI 🤖...

AI buzz 🐝 I get the concerns of recruiters; the buzz around AI is incessant. It seems overwhelming; there is a...

The final discoveries before I turn 53! These final 17 are the most personal things I have learned over the last 5+...

So many life discoveries to share! If you missed part one, you'll find points 1 to 17 here. They are the most...

Discoveries found Getting older is fascinating. I'll be dancing around my kitchen feeling like a 30-something, and...

Pondering AI I'm back!! I hope you didn't miss me too much while I was furiously typing out my new book, Reboot...

Talent Acquisition... what do they do again? It is optimistic to see so many new job notifications for talent...

If you were to work on one thing in 2024 that would help you feel calmer and happier, I would make it building your...

Because maybe you shouldn't be a recruiter? Maybe in 2024, you should choose something else... I sure hope I leave...

Please don't think GPT is a panacea for bias! I don't know what it is about the blind uptake of AI that is winding...

Yesterday evening, catching up with my wonderful friend Glenn Martin, I shared that I was meant to publish this...

A post about people suppressing people. How sad to have to write. I felt sad writing it. I wasn't even going to...

No more unicorns! Recruiters, for the sake of your sanity, stop it! If you keep looking for unicorns instead of...

Did you miss me? While most were summer holidaying, I had a hiatus to write my memoir, The Damage of Words. I also...

Thanks to the state of the economy, many recruiters are now on the receiving end of countless poor business...

A waste of your time or a hiring solution? Take your salary and divide it by the number of weeks you work. Then...

What do you gain by allowing poor hiring manager behaviour? I'm still on my global talent acquisition training...

In-house recruiters & talent acquisition, read this to your hiring managers - especially those who are acting...

What do you do with a biased hiring manager? I opened a can of worms. After each edition, lovely readers send me...

We women need to stop doing this too 😬 As many readers know, I am writing a new book called Conquer Hiring. It is...

'Our company's policy is to never hire rejected candidates' 😲 I sometimes fear I'll run out of things to rant about...

You may have seen my LinkedIn post/poll last week about Recruiting Hell on Reddit. I made the mistake of popping in...

This red flag stopped me talking! This is my 20th year in the recruitment/TA industry so to be left speechless by a...

As this is my first article of the year - HAPPY NEW YEAR beloved reader, subscriber, and especially those who read...

Recruiters, 5 things to leave behind! Wow, this is my last article for 2022! Ok, I could squeeze one more in but I...

Recruiting rollercoaster, it's up, it's down... or is it up? 🎢 While the press is focused on the doom & gloom...

Are we recruiting in ambiguity? Who knows! My feed is full of layoffs. My feed is also full of new starters &...

Are Talent Acquisition pros being set up to fail? Last week I had a ball speaking at #LDNLive22 about 'Handling...

Hiring Managers; They're Only Human! Sitting between the candidate and the hiring manager can feel like being in an...

A cost centre! How often do you hear Talent Acquisition called this? The people who bring in the people, therefore...