27 Jun, 2019 | Attributes, Capability, Recruitment, Strategy
My discussions with senior leaders and executives often gravitate towards the best way to determine if someone is going to be successful. People in senior roles, and those in just mid-level performance roles are often assessed by their managers on a range of issues.... 
30 May, 2019 | Attributes, Capability, Recruitment, Strategy
Good candidates are hard to find, in times of low unemployment and high unemployment. Often when recruiting, clients want to ‘squeeze the lemon’. This is an expression regularly used by one of my clients, meaning they want to get as much as they can out of their... 
29 Jan, 2019 | Culture, Recruitment, Strategy
You often hear talk of the CEO being an organisation’s number one salesman. As figurehead of the company, they are the most visible, influential, recognisable and most likely to articulately ‘sell the dream’ of their organisation and therefore attract external... 
16 Aug, 2018 | Recruitment, Strategy
Recruitment is too often, and too easily, seen as simply a role-filling exercise. Someone’s left or you’ve grown to a point where you need a particular role, and away you go to recruit that person. Behind the scenes of that important but tactical exercise is a much... 
4 Jul, 2018 | Culture, Strategy
Culture isn’t jeans Friday. And jeans Friday won’t generate better margins or more innovation or smarter programs. The heart of our business is culture-fit recruitment. What makes this critical to our clients’ competitive advantage is that it directly impacts an... 
