I read and hear many people blaming the skills shortage for why they’re not able to achieve their business objectives. I’ve also been hearing many recruiters bemoan how tough the market is right now to recruit. I have no doubt that it is more difficult than before to recruit staff of all types. Illness, isolation…
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,…
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…
It’s nuts out there. Talent acquisition teams are overloaded with reqs, recruiting recruiters, moving their company toward its DEI goals, training up their own teams, training up hiring managers, improving candidate experience, rolling out new policies (remote work being a big one), building talent pipelines for future needs, and more. So much more. So, what can…
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.…
We all know how challenging it is working in talent acquisition right now. The Great Resignation, the battle for talent (and subsequent salary wars), border restrictions, and growing skills shortages are just some of the issues caused by the global pandemic which have impacted almost every recruiters’ workload. In fact, the 2021 State of Talent…
I couldn’t start the final TWIT for 2021 any other way than to acknowledge the beautiful and brilliant talent community for your insane levels of hard work this year. In a completely changed market, the swift direction change has taken every ounce of thinking, creativity, drive and spirit. You’ve given it your all. This has been…
It’s my last TWIT of the year!! What a year it’s been – fun but challenging. FUN whilst we all attended virtual networking events, made virtual friends and picked up new hobbies. CHALLENGING in that … the candidate market has gone dry and crumbly. If you were at our State of Talent Acquisition event last…
Strengths are the things that we do well and find energising, they are found in every person. Strengths can be interpersonal – like Rapport Builder, they can be about how we think – like Creativity or how we are motivated – like Drive. They can also be about who we are as people, what we…