My dream includes killing off the scourge of contingent, multi-listed-order recruitment. It just drives much that is bad in our [recruitment] industry. Speed over price, shortcuts, resume racing, fee discounts,…
How much longer can you keep your head buried in the sand, pretending there isn’t a problem where there really is one? We call it the ostrich effect from the…
Hello Baby Boomers, Ladies and Gentlemen, all of you born between 1946 and 1964 (BE 2489-2507); that’s about 25% of the world’s population. Still. You are no doubt proud of…
If thousands of company leaders, from all over the world and different industries, agree on most-wanted HR Manager personality profile, why would you not do the same? Would it be…
Your third-party recruitment agency and executive search firm calculate their service fee as a percentage of the successful candidate’s first year’s annual income. The percentage will typically vary from, and…
It’s better not to be on LinkedIn… than to be there with an outdated and not-completed profile. That’s it. I could end this blog right here. But no, I won’t.…
There is nothing as frustrating as getting a call from the candidate, who recently signed your employment contract, that he has accepted a counter-offer to stay with his current employer.…
Totally not true. Recruitment firms do not work harder if competing with another recruitment company. On the contrary. Let me explain. Most recruitment agencies compete on price and not on…
Can you believe it? It’s almost unreal that it was back on 1st October 2003 that I started my executive search and recruitment career at Grant Thornton in Thailand. Thank…
And no, the resume is not to get you a job. Yes, really. The resume is your two-page marketing pitch document. The purpose: To get you an interview. It's the job…
