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Practical advice and resources for employers, hiring managers, in-house recruitment teams, job candidates, and job seekers
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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 Wilson's experience of providing coaching services, we reflect on the nature of coaching.In particular, we explore:who benefits most from coaching - and howwhich contexts are most suitablehow to establish goals, scope, and expectationscharacteristics of getting started an...
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 (DEI).When it comes to the latter, we think there's a premium on discussion that is rooted in experience and deals with specifics. In this episode, our returning guest - Dawn Pike of New Dawn Consulting - absolutely fits the bill.Here Dawn reflects on her exper...
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 and induction. To guide us through the journey, we interview expert HR consultant Dawn Pike of New Dawn PR (logo featured here). With the help of a positive case study - appointing a senior role at Dawn's previous employer, International House London.Our conversation cov...
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 episode, we reflect on the characteristics of effective use of social media. In particular, we consider:the significance of opportunity cost and the need for disciplinewhich metrics matterthe need to move beyond treating social media purely as push mediaFurther listeningIf...
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 development of such empathy.We explore the work of an agency by exploring in turn each of the roles involved.In addition to the client-facing and candidate-facing roles, we include in the series the contribution of ancillary roles.In this episode, the seventh interview...
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 development of such empathy.We explore the work of an agency by exploring in turn each of the roles involved. In addition to the client-facing and candidate-facing roles, we include in the series the contribution of ancillary roles. In this episode, the sixth interview...
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 development of such empathy.In the previous interviews, we've focused on one role at a time. Now, in this interview with FJWTS's Managing Director, Fiona Wilson, we step back to provide an overview.We explore what's involved in positioning and running an agency and wha...
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 development of such empathy.Here, in the fifth interview in the series, I'm interviewed by Sherah Beckley about the role of Communications Director. We discuss the purpose of the role, the work it entails - and what we don't do.Further listeningif you enjoyed listening...
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 development of such empathy.Here, in the fourth interview in the series, we interview Josh Turner , about the role of Administrator. Everyone knows roughly what an 'administrator' is - but what exactly does it involve specifically in the context of talent acquisition?J...
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 development of such empathy.Here, in the third interview in the series, we ask our in-house experts, Lina Beynar and Olga Lupu, about the role of Researcher.Olga and Lina explore the purpose of the role, the work it entails, and how to liaise with stakeholders (employe...
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 development of such empathy.In this, the second interview in the series, we ask Maria McNiven about the role of Resourcing Partner.Maria explains the purpose of the role, the work it entails, and how to liaise with stakeholders (employers and candidates) effectiv...
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 development of such empathy.In this, the first interview in our series, we ask Andrea Montgomery about the role of Account Manager. Andrea explores the purpose of the role, the work it entails, and how to liaise with stakeholders (employers and candidates) effect...
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, candidates) are given a window into how an agency works - and what factors make successful fulfilment of a job brief.This new series, How talent agencies work', is designed to contribute to the development of such empathy.Through a series of interviews, the series exp...
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 other culturally specific abuse and harmful practices in the UK. It campaigns to eliminate all such practices for good, while also providing life-saving direct intervention services to survivors and those at risk.In this episode, Afrah Qassim (Savera UK's Founder & CEO, pict...
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 this episode we outline some straightforward criteria that non-technical staff can use to assess their organisation's websites. They concern:provision for a various stakeholdersnavigabilityaestheticsLinks and referencesWebsites cited in this episode as examples of good...
Anthony Haynes writes: If you find that meetings don't make an undue demand on your time and that the meetings you attend are invariably engaging and productive, you don't need to listen to this episode.If, on the other hand, you live on planet earth, this episode might help to reduce your blood pressure.In this episode we're delighted to feature the meetings guru, Dr Carrie Goucher, (pictured), founder of FewerFasterBolder: https://www.fewerfasterbolder.com/.Carrie is motivated by a co...
Anthony Haynes writes: In a previous episode, we reviewed a business podcast that made a big impression on us - Drew McLellan's Build a Better Agency. We mentioned that we liked the thinking on business development ('bizdev'), particularly the ideas explained in Drew's interview with Dan Englander.Here we explain how we used the ideas from Build a better agency to transform our approach to bizdev at FJ Wilson Talent Services. The topics we cover include (a) team structure and roles, (b)...
How are talent services organised - and, crucially, what does that mean for clients, i.e. the employers and hiring managers using agencies?In this episode, we look below the bonnet of talent acquisition. We examine two models: a traditional (linear) model and a modified model.The latter is refined to provide benefits in terms of contingency and flexibility.The episode comprises an interview by Sherah Beckley with Fiona Wilson and Anthony Haynes.Further listeningif you enjoyed listening to thi...
Anthony Haynes writes: Frankly. when it comes to recruiting staff, many organisations use the same process over and over (seemingly regardless of how successful or otherwise it proves).But supposing you don't do that? Supposing, instead, you engage in reflective practice and action learning - how would that go.In this episode, our Managing Director - Fiona Wilson - Sherah Beckley, and I discuss FJ Wilson Talent Services's approach to recruiting the company's own staff.We reflect on:imperfecti...
Anthony Haynes writes: Any literate person knows how to write an email. But writing effective emails is another matter.The frequency of complaints about people not reading emails, or not understanding them, or not responding properly suggests that there's scope for development!In this episode, Sherah Beckley and I discuss ways to write emails more effectively. In particular, we identify six key, practical, decisions to inform the writing of emails.Further listeningIf you enjoyed this episode,...
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