Monthly Archives: February 2012
The one with the golden envelope
If you watched this week’s Academy Awards the host, Billy Crystal, in his opening monologue said something along the lines of “because that’s what people want to see, millionaires presenting each other with gold statues”. To a certain extent he’s … Continue reading
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The one with my rose tinted view
I always had this notion that the recruitment function was something akin to the A&R function of a record label. The ‘A&R man’ was the one who spent their lives going to gigs, trying to find the next big thing … Continue reading
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The one with a quality measure
“I went to TRULondon and all I got was this lousy blog post” Trying to summarise a 45 minute multi-person conversation (for that read bun fight) into a blog post is something I find very difficult but here goes… Yesterday … Continue reading
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The one with the rarefied air
If accounting has it’s big 4, law has the magic circle then the firm I met with yesterday are the recruiting equivalent – what is sometimes referred to as a top-tier search firm. My objectives for the meeting were several-fold … Continue reading
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The one with a little love in the room
So it’s that day again…the day where the supply and demand curve makes dinner for 2 and a dozen roses double in price, every TV show run idiotic features and every person who’s single feel either smug or like reaching … Continue reading
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The one with the electric windows
When I was a kid one of my Dad’s friends had a Ford Granada. At the time my Dad had a Ford Cortina (for anyone under 30 – google it!) and the Granada was the bigger, better, shinier version. The … Continue reading
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The one with a positive index
Hands up who’s fed up of financial doom & gloom? Whilst it’s not difficult to validate the doom or gloom what I do find frustrating is that the general behaviour seems to be to jump on the bad news stories … Continue reading
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The one with TRU Quality
You those little grains of sand that get stuck in the machinery of your brain and as much as you try to ignore them you know they are there? Well it’s one such grain of sand that has led to … Continue reading
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The one without the silver bullet
You know those breakfast briefings you get invited to? They usually start at o’my god o’clock and are somewhere in London? This is about one of those. The thing that distinguished this session from most was it opened with one … Continue reading
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The one with the cooperative
If you read the post last week on the unconference sessions at the HR Director Business Forum in Birmingham you will know I was involved in starting one of the conversations. I was fortunate enough to be joined by several … Continue reading
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