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The lost art of the “boozy lunch”

Booze and recruitment have historically gone together like gin & tonic. When I started in this industry, you could not meet a recruiter who was teetotal. Actually, there weren't even occasional or "social" drinkers. Recruiters, like sailors, soldiers, dockers, and the homeless, tended to be habitual binge drinkers, 'cept everyday…
Sean Walters
January 31, 2025
Recruitment

A New Year’s Resolution: Meet more candidates

Merry New Year - as they say in countries who speak English as a second language. If you're reading this, you're one of the seemingly few who decided to start your working year on the 6th of January, and not the 13th. Hopefully everyone is well rested, although if your…
Sean Walters
January 10, 2025
RecruitmentSourcing

The Ten Commandments of Recruitment

The last few years have not presented ideal conditions to learn the craft of recruitment. The post-Covid bounce, coupled with the dearth of candidates has skewed the nature of what recruitment really is. If you have started your career during this period, and forgetting the past 12 months, you could…
Sean Walters
February 23, 2024
EmploymentHuman ResourcesRecruitment

What’s your favourite “ism”?

I've been thinking about "isms" this week. No, not prisms, organisms, or specialisms. More so sexism, racism, ageism, and..errm..homophobia-ism. It's always difficult to write a blog about isms however, especially when you fit squarely into a demographic which has never been on the receiving end of one. I'm an (annoyingly)…
Sean Walters
February 9, 2024
EmploymentHuman ResourcesPoliticsRecruitment

How Awful Are We?

If you spend any amount of time on LinkedIn, you'll see that Recruitment Consultants are almost universally disliked. Recently I've spent a bit of time dealing with other industries who are also perceived as being awful. Here's my ratings: Real Estate Agents I've just sold and bought a house, so…
Sean Walters
January 26, 2024