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Read the latest industry insights from our Guest Blogger Alison Humphreys, award-winning NED.
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Posted on Saturday, April 1, 2023 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
Most of the recruiters I know tell me that engaging great candidates is really hard. Despite increased candidate availability in some sectors, most are extremely reluctant to move and risk their employment rights. At the same time, many are dealing with a deluge of unsuitable candidates. Why? Here’s a few reasons: Desperate job seekers who find it easy to apply indiscriminately Poor candidate ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
One of the biggest fetishes in business is especially worshipped in the recruitment industry. A “never give up” mindset, the determination to “power through”, a value system that celebrates “grit” and dogged repetition. Some recruiters I know argue that this is more important than ever. I don’t agree . While determination to achieve is important, I have never thought that “head down, charging at ...
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Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
In my last blog, I discussed whether a genuine specialist can make a move to a new recruitment market. The answer is a conditional “yes” – as the key to a specialist making the move relies on successful adaptation. And successful adaptation boils down to one thing – how you sell your proposition . Recently, I’ve been listening to a few BD calls for one of my clients, a recruitment business owner ...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
A few years back, I was in the position of explaining to a substantial recruitment workforce why their contracts had to change to a new recruitment market. Some staff were clearly suspicious of the changes. Some of the staff were finding the legal language a little hard to understand. I explained that the new clause was actually much more narrowly focussed a restriction from their point of view, ...
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Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2023 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
In my last blog, I began to outline what you need to do to maximise your chances of success when entering a new market. Here is part two – you can get a refresher on part one here, or continue reading to for the final four points… This is a guide only, please seek professional help when entering a new market. 4. Start building your network. Good old LI is your friend here, but you need to put ...
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Posted on Sunday, January 1, 2023 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
In one of my recent blogs, I referred to the VUCA environment (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) in which most recruitment businesses now find themselves. In this world, agility is key. That may mean: Rapidly changing your proposition or product Finding new geographies Entering new sectors Engaging staff with different talents For certain, though, there are very few recruitment ...
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Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2022 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It describes the environment of constant, unpredictable change that is now the norm in certain industries and areas of the business world. Once you recognise that you are in a VUCA environment, the only logical approach for leaders is to be highly adaptive and responsive- in other words, agile. Agile leaders are constantly taking ...
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Posted on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
To adapt Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a recruitment leader must never, ever be a micromanager. Every time the phrase comes up, recruiters tend to shake their heads sagely and concur that micromanagement is a bad thing. But in the present situation particularly, perhaps it’s time to revisit what we mean by micromanagement and whether your business may be throwing the ...
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Posted on Monday, October 3, 2022 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
You can do better than “get back to normal”. If you’re a recruitment business owner who has started seeing some signs of recovery in your sector – and I sincerely hope you have – you’ll be thinking about bringing people back to work and getting productivity back to normal. I’d like to suggest that you don’t. Before activity and immediate decisions take over again, take a few minutes to ask ...
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Posted on Thursday, September 1, 2022 by Alison Humphreys - Award winning NED and strategic advisor
So, you’ve got the message. Your recruitment agency is a lot more resilient and attractive to investors if it has a serious temp/contract capability. Interestingly, about 75% of start-up recruitment firms start – and stay – largely perm placement oriented. And I’d like to suggest that it’s no coincidence that 90% of recruitment firms stay with fewer than 10 employees. If you are a perm recruiter, ...