Why a Company Culture is Essential to Hire Top Talent

Why a Company Culture is Essential to Hire Top Talent

In almost all aspects of life, people look for a sense of belonging. Finding a place, or group of people, where we feel valued and respected helps to bring out the best in us. The same is true in the workplace. The culture of any organisation can directly affect the...
4 Key Challenges Facing a Digital Age CFO

4 Key Challenges Facing a Digital Age CFO

In The Digital Age, The Chief Financial Officer role in an organisation has evolved to become vastly more complex than number crunching and presenting figures to the board. In today’s constantly shifting world, a Digital Age CFO must have a broad understanding...
Effective Interview Questions to Ask Candidates

Effective Interview Questions to Ask Candidates

There are legendary stories of Google coming up with some real brain-teaser and not particularly effective interview questions to ask candidates. Such as “How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?” or “Why are manhole covers round?” These...
Will intelligent robots replace recruiters?

Will intelligent robots replace recruiters?

It seems a fanciful thought but the idea that rapidly advancing computer algorithms could one day make better recruitment choices than people is gathering some serious pace. In this post, I shed my two cents on the idea, and for those who fail to grasp the obvious,...

What Makes a Good Recruitment Consultant?

It’s no secret that the recruitment industry has its fair share of sceptical reputations and shady goings on. While plenty of the nay-saying is justified, there’s far more said and spread about recruitment that those within the industry know to be far from the mark....
Can Internal Recruiters Replace Executive Headhunters?

Can Internal Recruiters Replace Executive Headhunters?

Executive headhunters may well be under threat from the well documented rise in the numbers, and I would add sophistication, of internal recruiters now employed directly within organisations over the last decade. When I encountered my first internal recruiter it was...