I 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.
Read MoreI only ever said this once. The candidate I said it to, it must have been his 2nd job interview he’d ever gone for and he took it literally. He turned up in shorts, T-shirt and flipflops.
Read MoreIt’s on my Friday morning swim (I must go on a Friday if I want a glass of wine on a Friday evening, that’s the deal!) that I usually get my thoughts together about what I’m going to write about and this morning once again, delivered a few ideas. But then a chat with a candidate this morning cemented the exact topic of something that I’ve been giving a lot of thought to. The Interim market.
Read MoreContractors? Interims? Consultants? What is the right terminology? And are you one? And how do you decide what to call yourself?
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