Right then. Let’s get into it.
I’ve been in recruitment long enough to remember when a CV was something a person actually sat down and wrote themselves. When a cover letter carried a bit of weight. When a hiring manager would just pick up the phone rather than hide behind a portal, a scoring matrix or some algorithm quietly binning good people before any human being has even glanced at their application.
Things have changed. Some of it for the better. Quite a lot of it, if I’m honest…for the worse.
This blog exists because I got fed up of nodding along to industry crap. Fed up of watching LinkedIn turn into a conveyor belt of AI-generated “thought leadership bollocks” from recruiters who’ve never actually had to work hard to place anyone. Fed up of reading candidate applications so slick and so empty they could have come from anyone and in most cases, they did.
So here’s what this is. It’s my take based on years of actually doing this job. It’s honest, it’s sometimes blunt and if something I write makes you uncomfortable, there’s a good chance it’s because it hits a bit close to home.
I’ll be covering what’s really happening in the job market right now.
What candidates are getting wrong.
What employers are getting wrong and what recruiters are getting wrong, because we’re absolutely not above criticism in this industry.
I’ll also be talking about AI. Not because I think it’s all bad, it has its place but the way it’s being used in recruitment at the moment, across agencies, in house recruiters and by candidates, is often lazy, misleading and doing serious damage to people’s careers.
Some of it you’ll agree with.
Some of it you won’t.
A few of you will probably roll your eyes and hit unfollow.
That’s fine by me.
If you want the straight version of what’s going on in this industry, stick around.
If you’d rather not, no hard feelings.
More soon.
Scott
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