recruitment consultants

Apes, Recruitment Consultants and Metaphors.

I had two conversations with recruitment consultants the day before yesterday. One chinwag was engaging, challenging and positive (Do I get extra points in the ‘buzzword bingo?’). The other was like discussing nuclear physics with a chimpanzee. There’s never much point, especially when the other person thinks you’re the chimpanzee and try as you might, …

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The Problem with Recruitment Consultants

File this post under ‘career limiting moves’. The problem with recruiters isn’t just a general lack of imagination, it’s the overly serious and humourless way they undertake their job (I can think of only one tremendous exception). Very few seem to have a maverick streak of human understanding, an instinctive feel for company culture or …

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