Category: Opinionated

Our personal views shared on anything and everything that’s work related.

  • Why AI could be bad news for jobseekers

    Why AI could be bad news for jobseekers

    We’re seeing more and more apps that are using AI (apparently) to help jobseekers. Some we rate more than others, like the ones that help determine whether you should be applying to a role – good camp. But not apps that change CV contents, write covering letters or auto-apply – bad camp. We believe that…

  • Job searching. Garbage in, garbage out.

    Job searching. Garbage in, garbage out.

    Garbage in, garbage out. I learned this term when I was at university years ago attending Computer Science module classes.  Poor quality input will produce faulty output. It’s a great expression which can be applied to other spaces, like recruiting. Here are four examples of job searching garbage in/out from different perspectives. To those hiring:…

  • Best core value ever?!

    Best core value ever?!

    While researching companies and their core values, we came across this one which made us laugh out loud. We just had to share it with you. What an outlier. Can anyone name the company?! There’s a really good definition that goes with it. (Don’t worry, we’ll share the answer on day 7 of posting this).

  • Attracting candidates to a job poll results

    Attracting candidates to a job poll results

    Our poll results are in!!  We asked: Which one of these is your most painful problem when attracting external candidates to a job? And ran the attracting candidates poll for two weeks, getting these results: 64%   I just can’t find who we need 21%   Having to use our ATS system 7%    …