Recruitment in the modern world
Insights, perspectives and practical advice. For and by employers, and job seekers and job candidates.
Episodes
56 episodes
Landing your next professional role: advanced insights from Ola Younis
Ola Younis is a data scientist who recently moved from work in the conveyancing sector to working for ACCA, the global body for professional accountants.In this interview, Ola reflects explicitly on the learning points that make for succ...
Outsourced employment and employers of record, with Janet De-Havilland
Anthony Haynes writes: This episode focuses on two concepts - outsourced employment and employers of record - that have become increasingly important in the landscapes of employment and recruitment. To guide us throug...
How the General Osteopathic Council improved its recruitment: a DEI success story
Anthony Haynes writes: Matthew Redford, the General Osteopathic Council's CEO and Registrar, tells the story of how the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) went about improving its talent acquisition from the perspective of diversity, e...
RIBA's role as a voice of the architectural profession, with Valerie Vaughan-Dick MBE
Anthony Haynes writes: On this podcast, we've tended to focus on talent acquisition and career development, especially in relation to our core market - which comprises professional organisation (membership bodies, awarding bodies, and ...
Diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Olivia Hill (AAT)
Anthony Haynes writes: Welcome to a new season (our 7th)! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Olivia Hill, People Director of Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). <...
Recruiting talent with a commercial edge, with Fiona Wilson's Talent Report
Anthony Haynes writes: Our experience of working with organisations for professionals (membership organisations, learning providers, and awarding bodies) shows that there is a long-term and still growing trend of wishing to recruit peo...
Candidate search and DEI, with Fiona Wilson
Anthony Haynes writes: Once a recruitment agency has been engaged and briefed on a role, the question arises of how to conduct the search for potential candidates.This entails two entwined considerations, namely how to conduct ...
Establishing a culture of coaching, with Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher
Anthony Haynes writes: 'Being passionate' has become a cliché of management speech - but in the case of Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher (CEO, Institute of Occupational Safety and Health), the culture of coaching is genuinely a passion.&nb...
Writing job advertisements: a DEI perspective
Anthony Haynes writes: There's plenty of guidance on how to construct job advertisements - but much of it has little to say about considerations of diversity, equity, and inclusion.In this episode, Sherah Beckley and I focus on...
Laying the foundations of DEI in talent, with Fiona Wilson
Anthony Haynes writes: Many organisations - employers and talent agencies - are reviewing their policies regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In this, the first episode in our occasional series on the topic, Fiona Wilson (...
Coaching: an inside view, with Fiona Wilson
Anthony Haynes writes: Though the majority of our episodes concern talent acquisition, we also cover wider aspects of human resources - notably talent development. That is our focus here. In particular, drawing on Fiona Wi...
DEI in talent acquisition, with Dawn Pike
Anthony Haynes writes: My impression from attending Recruitment Expo a couple of weeks ago was that a couple of themes were dominating discussion - one was technology, especially AI, and the other was diversity, equality, and inclusion...
Good practice in onboarding and induction, with Dawn Pike
Anthony Haynes writes: So, you've completed the selection process and offered the job to your favoured candidate: how does the journey progress from there? This episode focuses on two key, inter-locking, processes: onboarding a...
Using social media effectively
Anthony Haynes writes: Our work at FJ Wilson Talent Services is concerned with social media in two ways. The first (perhaps more minor way) concerns our own use of social media; the second concerns our stakeholders'.In this epi...
How talent agencies work: content production with Bart Hallmark
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent agencies work: interviewing and media, with Sherah Beckley
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent acquisition works, with Fiona Wilson
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent acquisition works: the Comms role
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent acquisition works: the Recruitment Administrator role
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent acquisition works: the Researcher role
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent acquisition works: the Resourcing Partner role
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.This series, How Talent Acquisition Work, is designed to contribute to the...
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How talent acquisition works: the Account Manager role
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.This series, How Talent Acquisition Work, is designed to contribute to the...
How talent agencies work: view from the inside
Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.In particular, it really helps when employers and individuals (job-seekers...
How to improve recruitment practices: Afrah Qassim of Savera UK
Anthony Haynes writes: Hearing how organizations have worked to improve their recruitment practices can be both fascinating and instructive. Savera UK is a leading charity working to end ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) and ot...
Reviewing your website: a non-technical guide
Anthony Haynes (pictured) writes: As part of our work with clients and prospective clients, we study employers' websites carefully. One clear conclusion: the quality and user-friendliness of employers' websites varies hugely!In...
