Tag: Freaking Hired!
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Rehabilitation – Who Needs It?
It could have been prophetic to be gabbing about hypocrisy and politicians for the last week or so. Following the terrorist attack on Friday, some of our newspapers (while leaking the identity of one of the victims before the formal identification had taken place – classy) latched onto the fact that the attacker had been…
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Not Waving but Drowning
I recently stumbled back onto an old classic that genuinely perked me up. Old – well it’s now been 50 years since publication; and a classic, because even after the extended passage of time, it remains bang on the money. The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. In it, they advance that…
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A Dogma is for Life…
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. And there’re only one goose in the charlatan realm, and that’s the charlatan goose. But it’s the one time of year when charitable sentiment is front and centre, and all the reprobates have to don their metaphorical Santa suits and indulge in a little goodwill to…
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Imposturing
Imposter syndrome. Articles on it are seeping out of every social media orifice. impostor syndrome or im·post·er syn·drome [ im-pos-ter sin-drohm] noun anxiety or self-doubt that results from persistently undervaluing one’s competence and active role in achieving success, while falsely attributing one’s accomplishments to luck or other external forces. (Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/impostor-syndrome) According to psychologists, sufferers are…
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The 6-Day War on Talent
Another little stunt being pulled out of the goody bag by volume recruiters is the job filled email. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord! At least they are getting back to candidates with something. And the ‘job filled’ email has been around some time, used mainly for ongoing volume campaigns when the hiring quota has been reached,…
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The War for Talent (continued)
As I mention in Freaking Hired! this is a beauty. Or rather the absurdity of its conceptual appropriation by mainstream recruitment bosses is a beauty. I’m sure that the recruiter bigwigs neck back some double comfort from the mention of McKinsey and the War concept. And nothing like a heavy blast of reflected glory from…
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Pep Talk
Delighted to see Pep Guardiola flying the flag at Anfield. Yes, Max Frances has been published TWICE. Not just once, but TWICE! TWICE! Always great to see passionate support on the sidelines. Flypaper for Freaks and Freaking Hired! On Amazon Now!
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The Pyramidas Touch
Just when you think the world of recruitment cannot stoop any lower, some determined hacks find a way to thwart your optimism. In Freaking Hired!, I mentioned the commercial methodology of aggregators. The job boards that use bots to scrape job ads to post on their own sites, with subsequent applications proving their concept, which…
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