#TalentAcquisition

If you are 'Ghosting' Candidates You Ought to Think Twice

If you Are Professionally 'Ghosting' Candidates You Ought To Think Twice Sometimes I find my Talent Attraction passion gets the better of me and I just have to speak my mind. With advances in automating talent acquisition and TMS systems, some Talent Attraction basics have been forgotten about. One of those being common, old fashioned, decency. The rudeness and lack of follow up engagement with candidates, by some in-house talent acquisition professionals and agents, is shock

Why Outsourcing Your TA Function Has Gone By Its Sell By Date & Stinks!

Why Outsourcing your Talent Acquisition team has gone by its sell by date and stinks! If you have been knocking about in the corporate world for a couple of decades you will probably remember the push by big global outsourcing companies to encourage you to outsource critical functions of your company like IT, Accounts, Payroll etc. It was so enticing to think that you could save x amount of money just by passing off such functions to these external experts. Outsourcing took

Agencies - Love Them, Hate Them but you Must Partner with Them

Recruitment Agencies – Love them Hate them but you must Partner with them When Linked In came along TA people were saying that it would be the end of recruitment agencies. But it hasn’t been. Certainly, the percentage share of hires made by good companies have dropped significantly for agencies. Top companies are looking at maybe as low as 1:10 in terms of the amount of agency hiring they need to use to fill roles. Before Linked in that could have been as high as 4:10. Bu

How to Go From a 'Maybe' Employer to a 'Hire Me' Employer

Your time is up if you think you are still in charge of deciding who to hire. We are back to the pre-recession days of offer rejects mounti

Why I am a Talent Attraction Troubleshooting Detective

When your company is failing to attract particular candidates and you can't work out why, it is time to bring in a Talent Acquisition Tr

Quit Trying to Hire the Best

We have all heard the phrase ‘brain drain’ in the context of people leaving the country but attempting to seek out the ‘best’ through overly

Neurodiversity is trending up! What are you doing?

Transcript of 'Neurodiversity is Trending Up!' A lot of companies are walking the walk when it comes to diversity in their hiring but many others are lagging behind. Why is this? Are they waiting to see how this ‘diversity experiment’ is going to pay off for those who have started these programmes? Are they watching the competition and will only react to this growing success story when they have the full facts, or equality and diversity laws are enforced more? Well, it’s s