The lasting legacy of poor leadership

“A fish rots from the head down” My friend was stood down from her job due to COVID-19 on March 23, she, along with her colleagues, hasn’t had any contact or communication from her employer at all during this time. At the time of writing this blog that’s been 11 weeks. I have another friend […]

Is 2020 the year ethics will become cool?

Do you feel like change is in the air? So much happened in 2019, economically, politically, it seems like we’ve kicked off 2020 with a collective “the rot stops now” attitude. First inclination it’s not just me was reading this article by Gary Martin the head of AIM WA. In the article Gary talks about […]

It all starts here

When does a new employees’ introduction to your business begin? Day 1? Signing of the contract? It starts when they first hear about your job and make that decision to apply. And that settling in, falling into the culture of your business process, takes about a year. Task & skill wise it takes a new […]

Building an “always learning” culture

“No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, more to learn, more to achieve” Barack Obama One of my favourite questions to ask of potential new employees is “what is something in your area expertise would you’d like to learn more about” When looking to future employees […]

Stop ghosting your candidates – the vlog

I love recruitment, out of all the HR functions it’s my favourite, I tell people it’s because it’s mostly a positive experience, you know, up until you have to tell someone they were unsuccessful for a job.A lot of companies and recruiters deal with this by just not getting back to candidates, whether by the […]

The rise & rise of the office mean girl

I’m sure we’ve all been personally victimised by our fair share of office mean girls in our time, in the past few years on social media I’ve noticed a significant increase in people talking about being bullied at work and if you type “office mean girl” into Google you get 946,000,000 results.