THOUGHTS

Opinion, advice and analysis on marketing recruitment.

Is AI Really Changing Recruitment At All? A Year with LLMs…

How Content Roles Very Quietly Became Very Important

Fixing The Leaky Talent Pipeline

Meet the AI Candidate

Pinpointing up-and-coming talent for a leading HealthTech company

Hiring Introverted Candidates

On Diversity Of Thought & Hiring People You Disagree With

When You Know, You Know...

It's Not Me, It's You. When Candidates Revolt.

The Passion Trap - Why The Best People Aren't Always Following Their Passion

On Doing Things That Are Hard and Slow

Good People = Growth, A Financial Analysis

The Danger of Incentives

Why We Should All Aspire To Inbound Talent Acquisition

Talent Doesn't Just Want A Job...

The Insult Of Anonymous CVs

The Art Of Finding Extraordinary Talent

Some Perm Recruiters are Cheaper Than Other Recruiters (Why?)

The Unearned Advantage of Pretty Privilege

How To Find Young, Inexperienced Marketing Talent

The Eight-Week Window, And Why You Need To Move Quickly

I hope this finds you well...

In praise of Middle Managers

We Need To Talk About Boys

Good Candidate, Bad CV?

Why Conversational Interviews Work, And How To Do It

Bollocks to Cultural Alignment?

Do You Get More Candidates When Hiring Multiple Recruitment Agencies?

Distressed hires & Planned hires

On hiring marketers with difficult backgrounds & the value of curiosity

You're just not ready yet (it's OK)

On recruiting for agencies vs in-house roles

Why interviews are decided in the first 3 seconds, and why you only need a sip of the milk to know if the bottle is off...

Understanding Your Available Talent Pool of Digital Marketers with the benefit of fancy Venn Diagrams

Ten Things Candidates Can Do To Stand Out From The Crowd

How to listen

The importance of shutting up

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