The candidate interview is an important aspect of any recruitment consultant’s role. The interview provides an excellent opportunity for the recruitment consultant to see a situation through the candidate’s eyes. Carried out well, the consultant leaves an interview with a sense of the real motivation for applying, an assessment of capability, as well as the building blocks of rapport with …
“I wish I could send you some,” says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. “Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. It’s amazing stuff.“ I use the term moondust because of these qualities: a kind of charge, magnetism and resilience, similar to the qualities of a great recruitment consultant. Although moondust (the thin layer that covers the moon) is a …
For some time I have had the privilege of taking part in the Leaders in Residenceprogramme. Around twice a year, chief exec’s, managing directors, entrepreneurs and early career professionals from a range of sectors meet with students at The Leeds University Business School to take part in round table discussions. These discussions are part of the core curriculum for 1st and …
No matter how busy the world of work becomes, some principles remain as useful as ever. Those principles include fairness, honesty and human dignity, and they form a key part of the 7 habits of effective leaders popularised by Stephen Covey in his book of the same title. In this blog we are presenting the 7 habits in a little …
Many of us were brought up on a system of telling. We were told what to do, and most often, we did what we were told. “Why?” “Because I said so.” We listened to what others told us to do until we were old enough or in a position of enough authority and then we started telling others what to …
“Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.” – Margaret J. Wheatley 85% of what we know we have learned through listening. Effective listening …
You can’t expect your employees to exceed the expectations of customers if you don’t exceed your employees’ expectations of management. These are the words of long-time twice Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz. Over his years at the helm, Schultz turned the coffee company into a progressive force, providing above-average benefits, including health insurance to eligible full and part-time workers, and ‘bean stock’, …
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. And as J K Rowling famously said, a good first impression can work wonders! In our last post “The Race to Place”, we made it clear that setting yourself up for success from the get-go is essential if you want to build an inspirational career in recruiting. But setting …
According to Mercer’s 2018 Global Talent Trends Study – Unlocking Growth in the Human Age, 92% of executives in the UK expect an increase in the competition for talent. “Companies need to deploy talent faster and with precision to unlock the potential of their workforce,” says Kate Bravery, Global Practices Leader in Mercer’s Career business. 96% of UK companies have …
If you talk to employees across a variety of industries and fields you’ll probably hear a common theme. Employees today are feeling overworked, underpaid, unrecognized, and unsure how long they can keep doing what they’re doing. Everyone is doing more with less, being expected to produce unprecedented results, and often workers know that if they left their job today they …