"Hiring a team of high performers is impossible!" Someone actually said this to me last week. To me!!! A recruitment specialist!!! It’s like telling a chef that the perfect soufflé is impossible! I disagree - we do it all the time. So, what's the secret? Well, I think it's all ab...

Making the perfect hire is one of the most important things that SMEs do. I mean, probably second only to getting the coffee right, having the right members on board your team is probably the most crucial contributor to the success of your business. I've noticed a couple of inter...

Some recent feedback from clients about talent we had placed caught my attention. I'm paraphrasing, but the gist of it was that each of the new hires had come with a growth mindset. To demonstrate what that is, here are a few of the comments ...  1 - They added value to the organ...

What value would you bring to your potential new employer and the role? This a great question to ask a candidate. The reason I like it so much is that it is one of those curved ball questions that allows you to really get inside the head of the person that you are interviewing. T...

In a candidate driven market it is so important that everything in your recruitment campaign sells your business as a great place to work. Why is this front of mind right now? Oddly, because of job ads posted recently for priests and police officers!! More on the vicar at the end...

Are you in the right place to attract your perfect hire? Now is a great time to attract specialist talent. Depending on what poll you read, switching jobs is the New Year resolution for between 14% and 33% of the population. As I write this, the first full week of 2019 at work ha...