Why is hiring so hard and so expensive right now? The numbers speak for themselves: Full employment is typically defined by economists as the point at which less than 5% of the workforce is unemployed. The UK unemployment figure is currently 3.9% there few, if any, “spare workers” in the system. Over 1.3 million non-UK Read more about Exit Interviews – are they worth the effort?[…]
Over the past month I’ve seen and read, what appears to be, an increasing number of articles covering the more negative aspects of home/hybrid working. Now we’ve passed the 2-year anniversary of the big move to a more home/remote based working model are the rose-coloured glasses perhaps starting to slip? The lack of face-to-face interaction, Read more about Are the rose-coloured glasses starting to slip?[…]
What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic interview question. So how do you answer it? My advice, as with any interview question, is to consider: why is the interviewer is asking me this? Habit might be one reason. This is straight out of the interview training playbook. So, it gets reeled out Read more about A classic job interview question…[…]
“The more I practice the luckier I get.” This is one of my favourite quotes. There is some debate about who originally coined it, but it’s most often attributed to the great South African golfer, Gary Player, when asked if he felt he’d been particularly lucky on one occasion. I’ve often stolen this great quote Read more about Investing in outplacement leaves less to chance[…]
How you exit people can be as important to your talent strategy and employer brand as how you onboard them. Done well it can pay big dividends – encouraging people to return in the future and in the meantime act as advocates in the jobs market. I remember writing an article on the topic of Read more about Boomerang hires – get them back…[…]
I’ve just been reading an article from a US magazine that reports how sick leave amongst homeworkers appears to be 70% lower than for their office-based equivalents. As with all data, I think that raw statistic poses more questions than it provides answers. What it doesn’t tell us, for example, is whether fewer individuals are Read more about Are homeworkers healthier?[…]
Delegation – or frankly the inability to do it – is often one of the biggest constraints on business growth. Leaders, no matter how good, have finite capacity, and eventually even the best run out of bandwidth and become bottlenecks in their own organisation. So why do so many leaders find delegation so hard? One Read more about Delegation: why is it so hard?[…]
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback”. I first heard this old Dutch saying about 5 years ago. And, of course, it is true. Trust is lost much faster than it is won. Building up trust is a bit like filling a piggy bank. You put little bits of loose change in over a Read more about Trust is easier to lose than build…[…]