This Week in Talent (17th February)

Sup? Are you like me where you’re a bit baffled by all this talk about the ‘metaverse’, and using virtual reality headsets to pretend you’re actually in the office or to tackle Zoom fatigue? Part of me thinks … what a great idea (and of course I’d love to give it a crack – I…

This Week in Talent (10th February)

Hey hey hey – welcome to your Thursday morning! Have you ever heard the term “collective restoration” before? I read an article this week that I found so interesting around how humans were statistically less depressed/stressed when we were in periods of collective time off. Think about the Xmas/new year period, or Easter. It’s so…

This Week in Talent (3rd February)

Howdy, it’s Thursday again. AND it’s February 2022. Time flies when everything in the world is bananas, am I riiiiight?! Last week I spoke about how we’re in the process of looking at our suite of candidate assessment tools, and totally shaking things up – particularly in the project delivery/engineering recruitment space. More practical activities,…

Recruitment is Marketing

The talent shortage, the pandemic, and the dislike many potential candidates have for bureaucratic firms make recruiting even more challenging than it has been. One of the challenges recruiters face in attracting talent is the inability to market jobs effectively. We need to recognize that recruiting is fundamentally a marketing function. To attract talent and…

This Week in Talent (27th January)

Welcome to the HOTTEST WEEK OF MY LIFE. Seriously, can summer please calm down? I’m a ranga, and my freckly pale skin and sunburnt eyeballs cannot handle any temperature above 30 degrees. (Yes… the optometrist has told me I have sunburnt eyeballs). So, I’ve been making plans for the year, and I am flippin’ excited.…