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…
If there was a perfect storm in the world of talent, it would be one that promises high demand, low supply, precarious market conditions, challenging new health and regulatory requirements, and a wave of resignations. Some talent functions are facing the storm in a warship with a well-defined battle strategy and others in a sailboat,…
Hello there – happy Thursdays! So … obviously we talent folks understand the market right now. I’ve been recruiting for 12 years, and I don’t ever remember the market being this gross – counter offers, nil appoints, and I’ve had 3 candidates in the last 3 months withdraw from a recruitment process I was running…
It’s been nineteen months since the Black Lives Matter movement. Nineteen months since we saw organisations post their black squares on social media, make public pledges to fight for racial justice and vow to be allies to black, Indigenous & people of colour (BIPOC). So, where are we now? We’ve all seen the organisations that…