Is now the time to rethink how you recruit specialist IT talent? Are your candidates getting profiled by people who have never performed that role? Do you feel that all your recruiters appear to be using the same CV databases? Are you forking out upfront fees with no guarantee of...

I had a very interesting email exchange with a Director of HR this week about how the talent management lifecycle is becoming increasingly difficult to control. Among the key challenges, she told me, is the ever-accelerating rate of change in technology. IT is altering all aspect...

Businesses that are reliant on IT need to pay special attention to their recruitment and retention strategies in 2018 as a recent survey suggests that a third (32%) of IT professionals hope to switch jobs within the next 12 months. Given that just about every business is now reli...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Access Talent! We hope you enjoy reading our blogs and posts and we look forward to sharing many more with you in 2018. We’ll be back on 2nd January with a great year of articles ahead. In the meantime, if you’re missing our bl...

It caught my eye. I cannot find robust research that backs it up, but I have to agree, that when you look through the 'situations vacant', you do see a lot of basic errors in grammar and spelling. Also, there’s often a lack of focus on who hirers are actually trying to attract. S...

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh once estimated that bad hires had cost his firm company "well over $100 million", almost half of hiring/HR managers (41%) believe that bad hires have cost their firms "thousands" and the U.S. Department of Labour puts the price of a bad hire is at least 30% ...