I recently recruited a Responsible Sourcing & Fisheries Manager for a client of mine. One candidate in particular stood out, or rather the conversation that we had stood out, he said he wanted to help save the planet as the previous generations had done so much damage. And he didn’t want a job that was corporate in a large organisation in a city, he wanted a job where he could make a difference to the future of the world. Wow. How times have changed.
Read MoreI have had this conversation twice in the last week. And both times the “age” word cropped up really early in the conversation and both times, I was talking to male candidates. And it got me thinking, not about the Age Discrimination Act because I’m not that kind of person, but about at what age do you start worrying about your age?
Read MoreWhen leaving a job, there can be a million & one reasons but here I think is the BEST way of wording something so negative, into a massive positive.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing. In June 2011 I worked away from job as a Commercial Manager in the Food Industry to work in Recruitment. Some people thought I was insane and some people grinned from ear to ear in the same way I was. It had broken me. Not one part of it, a whole barrage of it.
Read MoreI spend up to 5 hours a day talking to candidates about their search for a new job, but when is the best time to start looking? Let’s discuss….
Read MoreContractors? Interims? Consultants? What is the right terminology? And are you one? And how do you decide what to call yourself?
Read MoreWhen I first had a thought to write something about LinkedIn, I had nearly 4,952 connections and was getting all excited about hitting the 5,000 mark. Then I wrote a comment on LinkedIn on Monday 15th May 2017 at 6.50pm just before I left the office, about a candidate of mine getting her dream job and who’d have known what would follow……
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