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...
