Forgive me for taking the next few paragraphs to state the bleeding obvious. In every job board, there are three interested parties; those who run the board itself, the job advertisers (employers and recruitment agencies) and candidates. Candidates may feel that it is they who are looking for jobs, but the truth is that they...
This phrase is famously quoted in the seminal (in my opinion) movie, Wayne’s World, and attributed to either “Kierkegaard or Dick Van Patten”. It’s not always easy to control how we are defined by others, but we all make attempts to do so. Often random events or idiosyncrasies become how other people relate to you,...
I’ve changed my mind about something this week. The germ of an idea had been growing in my mind about religion and recruitment. In many countries there are constitutional laws enacted to keep religion and state separate, for many reasons, but largely to ensure that the governance of a country is neither swayed, nor (more...
I wouldn’t really class myself as a brave person, or a risk taker. What I am though is headstrong, obdurate, stubborn, and compulsive. I usually like to call it decisive. This normally manifests itself in committing to a course of action, rather than regret making no decision at all for years to come. I know...
As a young-ish industry, subject to change at any time (as is the wont of many internet businesses) the online recruitment sector is subject to the threat of game changing moves, which can radically alter the premise upon which we mostly operate. Our industry is entirely predicated upon a set of assumptions, about how we...
It’s a competitive world, and never more so than now. We all want our fair share, or at least what we think is our fair share. Employers want to attract better employees, candidates want to get better jobs, with more pay, and websites want more traffic. However, very few of us actually believe we are...
This may seem a no-brainer to anyone in the online recruitment industry, and perhaps even a preposterous question for me to ask, given my role in the sector over the past decade. In the picture here “La strada per l’inferno e lastricata di buone intenzioni” translates as “The road to hell is paved with good...
