How happy are you with your job? On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate yourself? I hear it daily from our recruitment business that the pre-Christmas period is a time when candidates are active. Forget the New Year resolutions! We also see it from the data we get from our clients via Engagement
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It’s Not About the Coffee!
As a candidate, you may have noticed a trend when interviewing for prospective employment opportunities…that interviews have moved away from traditional company boardrooms, and into the local coffee shop. As a recruiter, I am seeing this more and more– in fact, informal interviews are becoming more common than the structured processes. A number of my
Good People Make Great Organisations
Despite what is portrayed, most of us are still inherently good. Once upon a time I was somewhat addicted to news. I read every square inch of newspaper I could find, ate breakfast with the morning news in the background, and was subscribed to various RSS feeds that gave me instant access to breaking news.
The Skill of Moving On Professionally
Everybody resigns from a job some time. We have all done it and most of us will do it again before we retire. It is never easy to resign; telling your manager that you are leaving your role is an extremely awkward and difficult conversation for most people to have. However, almost ironically, it is
My Younger Self
Wouldn’t it be great if at any one point in our lives we could go back in time and talk to our younger selves? What would we say? What advice would we give them? What would we have done differently? Recently I was in a meeting with a client who is heavily involved in