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...
by Katrina Collier | May 22, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
In-house recruiters & talent acquisition, read this to your hiring managers – especially those who are acting crazy and self-sabotaging. This past week, yet again, I was chatting to a lovely talent acquisition pro who couldn’t get her manager on a call...
by Katrina Collier | Mar 22, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
What do you do with a biased hiring manager? I opened a can of worms. After each edition, lovely readers send me more stories! So it’s a good job I like venting here every other week because sometimes I feel like I’m just howling into the wind, hoping that...
by Katrina Collier | Mar 8, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
We women need to stop doing this too 😬 As many readers know, I am writing a new book called Conquer Hiring. It is for all managers and leaders (not recruiters) and will focus on the easily fixable things they can do to make this hiring malarkey better for everyone...
by Katrina Collier | Feb 22, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
‘Our company’s policy is to never hire rejected candidates’ 😲 I sometimes fear I’ll run out of things to rant about each fortnight, and then I hear a doozy like this. Is that not the biggest load of crazy you’ve ever heard? Never hire...
by Katrina Collier | Feb 7, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
You may have seen my LinkedIn post/poll last week about Recruiting Hell on Reddit. I made the mistake of popping in there to gather some research for my new book and left depressed due to all the situations created by ‘recruitment blockers’. People who get...
by Katrina Collier | Jan 24, 2023 | Recruitment Isn't Broken
This red flag stopped me talking! This is my 20th year in the recruitment/TA industry so to be left speechless by a dumb practice is now pretty rare but this one had me agape. Like wide-mouthed, wide-eyed, stunned into silence, agape. 😮 Of course it didn’t last....
