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202621 issues
77
Are We Ensh*tifying Recruitment?
Howdy Recruiters! Today is more of a question and an invitation to a conversation. Simple question. Are We Ensh*tifying Recruitment?
76
The First 90 Days
Howdy Recruiters! With so many green banners coming down for recruiters recently, here are my tips for onboarding in your new roles
75
What do Future Recruiters Look Like?
Hey recruiters, let's take a look into our crystal balls and see what would recruitment look like in the future.
74
Candidate Experience
Howdy Recruiters! let's shut up about AI for two seconds so we can tune into whats really important candidate experience.
73
Airbnb's AI for HR Playbook
Howdy recruiters! Check out Airbnbs new playbook!
72
AWS is RecTech Now? Don't Worry About It
Howdy recruiters, today let's get into the news that's on everyone's lips: AWS's entry into the Rectech space. Let's get stuck in.
71
With AI, Context is the new Template
Howdy recruiters! today lets take an old school recruiter skill and apply it to our brand spanking new toy, AI
70
The AI Productivity Gap & Why I Dont Care
Hey there you funky-fresh recruitniks! Dom't worry, Finally someone's talking about AI....
69
Will AI Give Recruiters More to Do?
Hey recruiters, today I'm going to mush economic theory into recruiting and see what kind of unholy mutant it creates. enjoy!
68
Robots Are Coaching Candidates
Howdy recruiters! Candidates using AI for interview prep. when is it good? When is it bad? ow can we help? let's get stuck in
67
You Need to Understand 'Human in the Loop'
Howdy Recruiters! We're taking a break from our usual light 5 minute read to go deep into what on earth 'human in the loop' means
66
4 Signs of Low Activity and How to Fix it
Howdy Recruiters! I'm gonna pop on my management trousers and leadership half cape to talk about how to manage recruiter activity
65
The Sourcing Sauce
Howdy recruiters! lets have a look at some simple ways to improve our sourcing
64
3 Low Tech ATS Improvements
Howdy recruiters! Here's some simple low tech ways to get more value from your ATS
63
Why Wont your Hiring Manager just Listen?
Howdy recruiters! today lets talk about ways to get real change from your hiring mangers
62
3 Low-Tech Ways to be a Better Recruiter
Hey recruiters! were always talking tech, lets get back to basics and explore three ways you can get better without new technology
61
Its About Time!
Howdy recruiters! Lets get stuck into a really important measure of success, time. Using it, managing it, wasting it. Lets get cracking!
60
More ATS Tips For World Weary TA Leaders
Howdy recruiters! Here's a few tips to improve any ATS...except Workday
59
5 Tips To Not Choose A Terrible ATS
Howdy recruiters! Let's answer one of the most common questions I get asked. How do you avoid lumbering yourself with a bad ATS?
58
Whats Gove(rnance) Got to Do With It
Howdy my recruitment nerd brothers and sisters and a happy new year! Today we are going to focus on governance. who owns what, and why??
57
What to Do When Your Career Path Stops
Happy new year recruiters! Let's start the year off with a bang and talk about our careers.
202525 issues
56
Why Communication Matters
Ok Recruiters! We've been digging into change, now lets talk about the 'stuff' of change, Here's why communication matters
55
You Still Need to Get Better at Change Management
We discussed organisational change, now let's talk about those weird squishy organic things that populate office buildings.
54
You Need to Get Better at Change Management
Howdy recruiters! Lets talks about a few ways we can make changes stick.
53
Nail Your New Role in 90 Days
Recruiters! Lets get in depth on how we can onboard successfully into our new jobs
52
Recruiter Vibe Coding Dos and Dont's
Okeydokey my lovely recruiters! Let's talk about the do's and dont's of Vibe for coding stuff for TA
51
Aggregating Marginal Gains in Recruitment
Howdy Recruiters! Let's talk about how to mush together lots of cool wee improvements, to make huge gains
50
Has A-Player Culture Gone Too Far?
Howdy my recruitment nerd brothers and sisters. This issue I have a thought experiment and a question for you.
49
5 Books That Made Me A Better Recruiter
Howdy all - Random Wednesday Book Club! Heres five books that aren't about recruitment that really helped me with... recruitment
48
How to Survive as a Recruitment Lead
Howdy all! In my opinion, Recruitment Leads have the hardest job in recruitment. Here's a survival toolkit!
47
3 Things Good Recruiters Have in Common
Howdy Recruiters! Here's a few traits I have observed from good recruiters over the years and simple advice for adopting them
46
ATS Wrangling Part Two : The Wranglen..ing
Your ATS Doesn't suck, YOU DO!..Jokes, but seriously, lets fix your ATS.
45
Are Bare Raisers BS?
Ok recruiters! let's tackle the do's and dont's of Bar Raisers
44
Learn to Stop Worrying and Love SkyNet
Ok Recruiters! let's cut through the swathes of BS surrounding AI
43
Is the 80/20 Rule Bullshit?
Howdy recruiters! Today let's explore your founder's favourite slogan/method of valuing human beings, the 80/20 rule
42
Here's How to Change
Ok folks! let's looks at how to actually communicate the changes we make as recrutiers!
41
Is Recruitment Still a Good Career?
Real talk. If someone asked you "is recruitment a good career?" What would you say?
40
The Three Mentalities Every Recruiter Should Fix
Howdy Recruiters! Here are three ways of thinking that are contributing to a lot of your stress and how to fix them
39
Four Tips for Recruiting at Events
Howdy recruiters! Let's looks at how to make the most from events!
38
How to Run a Great Debrief
Recruiters! Today we discuss the final boss of recruitment decision making, the debrief. Let's get into it.
37
What's Your Problem?!?
Today lets talk about how to define problem statements for leadership so they actually listen to recruiters
36
How to Budget Your Time
Today lets talk about the exciting world of time management!
35
Four Ways Poor Workforce Planning Wrecks Good TA
Lets have a deep dive into workforce planning, how it impacts us recruiters, and what we can actually do about it.
34
Five Awesome Recruitment Rituals
Today lets looks at some rituals we can build that will make us more consistent and effective
33
Nail Your New Role in 90 Days
Recruiters! Lets get in depth on how we can onboard successfully into our new jobs
32
Break The Silo Part Two - Project Management
Recruiters! Lets borrow some techniques from project management to turbo charge our recruitment
202431 issues
31
What Recruitment Metrics Matter?
today lets eschew the fancy-schmantsy metrics and focus on the fundamental metrics that matter
30
Recruiters! Break the Silo, Lets Learn Marketing
The first in my Break the Silo series where we will steal, erm I mean borrow knowledge from other areas to improve our recruiting
29
Five Formulas To Help Recruiters Manage Data
Lets collectively put on our nerd trousers and get into spreadsheets.
28
How to Be a Strategic Partner
How do you take off your service shorts and put on a pair of spanking new strategic partner pants? Lets get into it..
27
What Even is Skills Based Hiring?
Everyone is banging on about skills based hiring. Lets dive into what it actually means!
26
Recruiters! Here's Four Ways to Get Better
Today is a hodgepodge of tips from me to you that will help make your lives easier.
25
Why RecOps Matters
Lets get stuck into the ins an outs of Recruitment Operations. just another buzzword or a TA super power?
24
Are Bottlenecks Silently Stopping You Hire?
Today let's get right into bottlenecks. How to identify, elevate and mitigate those cheeky wee monkeys
23
How to Make the most of AI as a Recruiter
Today I'm talking about something that nobody else seems to be talking about...AI. Maybe it'll catch on....
22
Heres How to Use Recruitment Data to Stop Burnout
lets figure out how to use our awesome data to manage one of the most important parts of our lives, our mental health.
21
How to Automate Your Recruitment
Today lets go down a deep dark rabbit hole of recruitment automation.
20
This is Why Your Hiring Manger Doesn't Listen
Today lets talk about why your hiring manager isn't as excited about recruitment data and insights as you are, and how to fix that.
19
Remote Work Holiday Special
I'm in Tuscany eating gelato and saying "Ciao!" Heres some cool places to remote work
18
Hiring Managers
Today we discuss the squishy organic bit of the process that makes our lives so fun and easy. Hiring managers....
17
Use your ATS to make more hires
Today lets discuss how you as an individual recruiter can make the most of your ATS to make more hires with less effort
16
Cost Per Hire
Today let's put on our recruitment nerd trousers, grab our RecOps tambourine and dive into the rabbit of hole cost per hire.
15
ABC. Always Be Sourcing
Today we are going to talk about all the benefits of "always on" sourcing
14
Let's Get RACI
Today we are going to learn about governing the squishy organic things that get in the way of our perfect processes. That's right...people.
13
Is your interview Valid?
Here are some interesting studies on the validity of different interview formats. Use them to fight against arbitrary interview biases!
12
How to Implement an ATS
Part two in my ATS wrangling series is here with a full project plan on how to implement a new ATS
11
RecFest24 - the key theme you need to know about
I went to Recfest, I learned a lot, heres the one theme that was diaucssed in every talk I saw and why its so so important for you to know
10
Master the Process!
I'm going to give you a way of really getting under the hood of your process and start tinkering.
09
Is Talent Density BS?
Today, let's talk about the thing everyone else is talking about, talent density. You know me my friends, I'll tell it like it is.
08
Slow is Smooth & Smooth is Fast
Here's why focussing on hiring efficiency is more important than hiring fast.
07
The Sauce!
Here's how to source like Sourcey McSourceface's Top Sourcer, Rear Admiral Sourceington III
06
ATS Wrangling Part One
Here are some tips anyone can use to make more hires from their ATS.
05
Activity!
Today we are exploring what causes low activity in recruiters.
04
Y U Ghost?
lets look at the real practical reasons a recruiter may be ghosting candidates.
03
Time
This issue has five pieces of practical advice for multiplying a recruiter's time
02
What to Measure
If you are lost on what to measure for success, this one's for you. Complete with a free 2024 stat sheet.
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