Lee Harding

Lee Harding

The Ultimate Guide To Job Searching

The Ultimate Guide To Job Searching

Searching for a job is hard. They say it’s easier to get a job when you’ve got a job, but given the last four years of mass lay offs and economic uncertainty, this is no longer true. The truth is, it doesn’t matter whether you currently have

Ending The Active Candidate And Passive Candidate Debate

Ending The Active Candidate And Passive Candidate Debate

I hate the terms active and passive candidates, I really do. And I think that’s because most folk don’t sit in either category, honestly I don’t even think the categories exist. I prefer to think more of it as a spectrum, a line that people can move

Recruiting Skills: How To Take A Hiring Manager Brief

Recruiting Skills: How To Take A Hiring Manager Brief

The moment you sit down with a hiring manager to take a brief is the single most important part of the recruitment process. If you don’t get this right you will waste a huge amount of time and energy, struggle to fill the vacancy, give a terrible candidate experience,

Recruitment SLAs & other such nonsense

Recruitment SLAs & other such nonsense

“We have an SLA with our hiring managers where they HAVE to review CVs within 48 hours” This came up in a conversation I was having with an internal recruiter a couple of years ago, they were quite proud that they had this SLA enforced on their hiring managers. Curiosity

A Recruiting Mindset: Servant or Business Partner?

A Recruiting Mindset: Servant or Business Partner?

I’ve worked with a lot of recruiters of the years, broadly speaking I think we recruiter folk tend to fall into two categories: those of us who want to be liked by our hiring managers; and those of us who would rather be respected by our hiring managers. Of

Recruitment is Storytelling

Recruitment is Storytelling

Everybody loves a good story right? Our kids love us reading them a story before bed, we share stories about our work day with our families and stories about our weekend with our colleagues on a Monday morning, but when it comes to the day job many of us forget

Asking Candidates Their Current Salary Is As Unnecessary As Asking Their Shoe Size

Asking Candidates Their Current Salary Is As Unnecessary As Asking Their Shoe Size

I shared a LinkedIn post yesterday which caused quite a bit of debate. The post basically said that recruiters & hiring managers should stop asking candidates about their current salary and it’s as relevant as their shoe size. By asking candidates their current salary you are anchoring them to