Tag: Recruitment
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Buggers With Large Lies
In recent weeks, I’ve been working with an organisation on some recruitment activity, which has proved to be eye-popping candy. Now, I’m well-conversed with the approaches of recruitment charlatans; in fact, their peccadilloes were once the object of intense personal curiosity. The UK recruitment sphere has long since been a social large intestine. But now…
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No-BAME Culture
‘Diversity and inclusion have never been more important’. They’re at it again, all those boorish recruitment consultants, so-called brand specialists, and advertising gurus churning out whatever toss they think might snag them a hatful of clicks. And it’s always been important. Not more so now. It’s the concept of diversity that has never been more…
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Abracadabra!
The reaction to racism has sent the UK, along with much of the world, into gestural frenzy. Well, it’s less a reaction to racism and more a reaction to a fear of pointing fingers. Unless, of course, they had never have heard of racism before? Seems unlikely. Now, everybody seems to be checking themselves into…
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Fraudian Slip
Remember when Dr Jenny Harries, the UK’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, first attended the daily Government briefings? She was drowning in an ocean of kudos. Clear, articulate, and factual with ‘a measured tone’. She was, in March, an ‘unlikely hero’. Of course, at the start of this whole mess, much was unknown, and we were…
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Just Eat
I’ve been catching up with more old contacts in the outsourcing world and all the old bounders are decidedly perky. While business owners are shedding backside bricks in their silvery wake, there are only tears of joy for many managers. Furloughed but earning to the max. Absolutely creaming it. The scams are vanilla, even wafer-thin,…
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Furlough Blows
Cometh the hour, cometh the charlatan. And in business, coronafraud is not just confined to online ads by individual twicers for non-existent supplies. It’s becoming part of corporate policy. As most will know, the UK Government has stepped up to the plate and will pay 80% of an employee’s salary, up to £2,500 per month,…
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Unfurling the Freak Flypaper
Earlier this year, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser launched a recruitment campaign ‘seeking weirdos and misfits’. He’s patently never worked in the recruitment sector, because that is indeed longhand for ‘launched a recruitment campaign’. Every campaign attracts weirdos and misfits – it’s one of the rules. The modus operandi of the switched-on is that such weirdness…
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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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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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