Hiring for fit: how to choose the right executives
Hiring for fit rather than technical ability is becoming more usual in organisations with a deficit of particular skills. Whereas once it would have been impossible to gain an interview without ticking every box on the job description, it is increasingly common for companies to recruit people who fit cultural parameters and have leadership or […]
14 Ways HR is changing and how you can stay ahead of the curve
HR is changing. Human Resources Directors need to be on top of their game to get the very best out of today’s fluid and demanding workforce. Human Resources. You know, that unfamiliar team sandwiched in the far corner of the office. The faces of which you see only twice (hopefully) during your tenure at a […]
Why Chief People Officers (CPO) are taking over HR
Remember when the human resources department was a back-office team that you only ever heard from when someone was joining or leaving the company? HR has come a long way from those days. Evolving trends in the HR landscape are now demanding a new, more strategic approach to HR practices. Firms are realising that caring […]
Should I hire interim or permanent executives?
It’s time to start looking ahead. Whilst life may be VUCA, your business cannot afford to stay on pause. Having the right talent leading your company will impact not just how you survive but thrive in the future. When things are unstable, you might be tempted to reduce risk by looking at interim hires rather […]
Should you return to the office or shut-up shop?
In real life telephone conversations, almost every CEO and Director that I have spoken to has had something to say about the future of the office. In our recent Leadership Survey their views were: 60% believe that home-working would become a right 73% thought that a head office would be retained but 65% said that […]
7 tips for virtual onboarding
If I had asked any of my CEO clients 15 weeks ago whether they would recruit and onboard a director virtually, they would have laughed. How times change because in our recent survey 29% of our respondents said that they would do exactly this…and indeed over recent times, theory has become the reality. As ever, […]
Essential Pre-Boarding Tips To Improve Hiring
Executive recruitment of promising new leaders typically has good companies focussing on the onboarding process, but amazing companies pre-board as well. Pre-board I hear you ask, what is this? For us, pre-boarding is a proactive strategic approach to assimilating your new employee well before their first day in the office (if offices still exist). It […]
How to recruit remotely: 10 tips from expert headhunters
HR consulting remote jobs could feel foreign to you. Making an offer without ever having met the person face to face seems like a strange idea at first but then so does having a team meeting hosted from a colleagues bedroom as their cat rests on their laptop and children are singing in the lounge […]
Workplace of the future: Is the office up to the job?
There’s no point pretending that everything is going back to normal. It simply isn’t. Whether this lockdown is sustained or not, a paradigm shift has taken place in the minds of those employees still with jobs, and they’re all wondering the same thing: why did they ever need to go to the office in the […]
The right remote communication tools for the job: from Slack to Snapchat
In the last month staying connected has become more important than ever. Between lockdown and social distancing, our person to person contact has almost disappeared. Co-workers have either been replaced by spouses, small children, pets or Netflix. Whilst some of us may flourish working at home, without the distractions of the office tea round, others […]
