It’s a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to talent attraction. There is an ongoing war on talent and recruiters show no mercy when it comes to poaching staff. They will relentlessly hunt your prime talent in an effort to nail that candidate. They will think nothing of leaving you behind, wondering why your most capable...

For IT recruiters, the pursuit of talent is relentless. It’s a never-ending game of cat and mouse as IT industries are growing whilst supply is drastically limited. The disparity between high-end tech roles and the talent available to fit these roles is a worry to employers. According to the annual CIO report from global research...

Tonight as I watched the World Cup, seeing the reigning world champions Spain well beaten by Chile; I can’t help remembering the training session I delivered to a team of potential world champion recruiters this week in Cardiff. During one of our discussions we reflected on the Kevin Durant quote: “Hard work beats talent when...

Since March 2013 when I wrote my immensely popular blog Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for the next 5-10 years, I have been consistently asked what are the recruitment sectors agencies should be avoiding. The first thing to say is that in my opinion, and those of most employment sector commentators, over the next...

      Was anyone apart from the board of directors of HMV or Blockbuster surprised when their businesses went into liquidation? I know I wasn’t and most people I have spoken too weren’t either. After all technology changed the way their customers could purchase their products and both HMV and Blockbuster were slow to...

Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for next 5-10 years With unemployment typically running at 8-11% across the developed economies of the world it seems bizarre to be talking about skills shortages but that is the reality of the world today. In last weeks blog ‘Can we win the Global Talent War’ I mentioned...

    If you read my blog ‘Third World War begins Now – Recruitment Agencies Mercenaries or Allies?’ then you will know that over the next 5-15 years the world is a facing seismic escalation in the ‘War-on-Talent’. The 140 million shortfall in skilled workers that China alone will face by 2030 is testament to...

    Dramatic? Possibly but the scale of what the world faces over the next few years is beyond anything we have ever experienced in our history and the consequences for the global War-on-Talent are massive. Read on and form your own opinion.   In recent months there have been a number of reports released...

    It is every recruitment consultants dream to turn their great individual client relationships with single line managers into lucrative corporate customers that will ensure their lasting success and prosperity. After 30 years in recruitment sales I now find myself, as a business development expert, trainer and coach, being asked this question repeatedly several...

When Lord Coe and the London 2012 Olympic Bid Delegation travelled to Singapore in 2005 to bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, their vision was to use the power of the Games to inspire lasting change. Since then ‘Inspire a Generation’ has become a phrase we are all familiar with. As a father...