Lee Harding

Lee Harding

The Top 10 Interview Questions & How To Answer Them

The Top 10 Interview Questions & How To Answer Them

I've been a recruiter for a long time and I've sat in a LOT of interviews. Here are the most common interview questions and how best to answer them. I'm not saying they're the best questions but they are the most common.

Will AI replace recruiters? Here's 10 reasons it won't

Will AI replace recruiters? Here's 10 reasons it won't

AI won’t replace recruiters, here’s why: 1. Whilst most hiring managers know what they want, many struggle to articulate it and it requires somebody who knows how to ask the right questions. A lot of the time, hiring managers don’t know what they want. 2. Think an

Agility in Talent Acquisition

Agility in Talent Acquisition

Picture the scene, a scene that as a Talent Acquisition leader we’ve all seen before. Your business has decided to close their London office and relocate 400 roles to their Manchester office. The London office will be closing in 6 months, which means all 400 roles need to be

Recruiter Enablement? What’s that all about?

Recruiter Enablement? What’s that all about?

It’s a job I’ve been doing for the last 3 years or so, and I’ve been meaning to write a post on it for quite some time but never really got around to it, because I’ve been busy enabling recruiters! So here it goes, at least

Is Quality Of Hire Even A Talent Acquisition Metric?

Is Quality Of Hire Even A Talent Acquisition Metric?

Let's talk TA Metrics, let's talk specifically about Quality Of Hire. For a really long time QoH has been considered the holy grail of TA Metrics, it's really difficult to measure, some use data around attrition, promotion, manager feedback and other data points to

What can the CPO learn from the CTO?

What can the CPO learn from the CTO?

What the CPO Can Learn from the CTO? Imagine for a moment that you're the CTO of a swanky tech company with a massive challenge ahead. You need help, so what do you do? You bring in partners and consultants, and then do the smart thing: CAPEX the

Candidate Experience, Ghosting & Recruiter Experience

Candidate Experience, Ghosting & Recruiter Experience

Let’s talk candidate experience, let’s talk ghosting, let’s talk recruiter experience. They’re all linked, obviously. No recruiter (in my experience anyway) deliberately goes out of their way to give candidates a bad experience, nor do they think “I’m going to ghost this candidate". Most