by Katrina Collier | Sep 27, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
No more unicorns! Recruiters, for the sake of your sanity, stop it! If you keep looking for unicorns instead of actual candidates… You will get super frustrated and hate your job. You could start doubting your capabilities. If you do get close, and your HM still...
by Katrina Collier | Sep 6, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Did you miss me? While most were summer holidaying, I had a hiatus to write my memoir, The Damage of Words. I also launched Beyond The Damage of Words podcast for perfectionists, people pleasers, masked, labelled, people whose emotional needs weren’t met, the...
by Katrina Collier | Jul 19, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Thanks to the state of the economy, many recruiters are now on the receiving end of countless poor business development messages. Attempts similar to the poor candidate messaging I have been begging recruiters to stop doing for years. The type of noise that gets in...
by Katrina Collier | Jul 4, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
Is your use of GPT giving the right impression? Last week I saw a comment about me and my book that blew me away. I took a screenshot and shared it on FB and Instagram, because the words moved me. Truly moved me. I believed the words. But after a conversation with Jan...
by Katrina Collier | Jun 19, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
A waste of your time or a hiring solution? Take your salary and divide it by the number of weeks you work. Then divide that by the number of hours you work each week. e.g. £60,000 ÷ 48 weeks = £1250 per week ÷ 45 hours per week = £27.77 per hour. What’s the...
by Katrina Collier | Jun 5, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
What do you gain by allowing poor hiring manager behaviour? I’m still on my global talent acquisition training adventure with Sue Ingram and we were nattering about poor hiring manager behaviour – especially towards recruiters – especially when...