Body shop, agency, recruiter, head hunter. They make me wince, as in “ Can the next person in line please come to this checkout?” Do a search for “head hunter” and you’ll have your choice of about 9,560,000 results including “The Headhunters” ( a professional wrestling tag team) , the “Chelsea Headhunters”, ( hooligans associated […]
Like most other professional services, the recruiting industry—from transactional agency to sophisticated executive search—operates in a world which is part science and part art, and just like the Wizard in Oz, from behind a screen hoping that Toto doesn’t force the grand reveal. With apologies to the good guys, there is a reason why the […]
Uncle…I give up. For years I’ve resisted the new call of nature: hashtags, likes, SEO, SEM, crowdfunding, microsites, 140 characters, bots, bits and trending. Force fed by the immersion in technology and a tsunami of everything digital, I became convinced we had exchanged quality for quantity; that we had become a society obsessed with seeing […]