Google's senior vice-president of people Laszlo Bock wrote a LinkedIn post that really got noticed in the social media world of IT recruitment. Bock shared his five steps for getting a promotion. It's aimed at employees but I've been considering what impact it could have on emplo...

Casually leafing through some older articles on last year’s Outsourcing Industry reports inspired me to put pen to paper (or rather fingers to keys). 2015 was a great year for outsourcing of HR functions. According to the Quarterly Outsourcing Index, carried out by industry analy...

From an IT talent perspective, Gartner's CIO Agenda Report makes interesting reading. It usually takes the temperature of the industry well and gives IT leaders’ intelligence for planning the year ahead. I always look forward to Gartner's survey of almost 3,000 CIOs from nearly 9...

“If you woke up and had 2,000 unread emails and could only answer 300 of them how would you choose which ones to answer?” As a candidate how cold does your blood run when you're asked a question like that in an interview? The above question reportedly comes from Dropbox and it ma...

According to a CareerBuilder survey of more than 3900 workers, 75% said that they had applied for jobs and then not heard anything back. Inconsiderate, unethical, unprofessional, disreputable, unprincipled - candidates react using different adjectives but the feeling is the same ...