What a Hiring Scorecard Looks Like, and the Problems It Solves
If you have never come across a hiring scorecard, the simplest way to describe it is this: it goes well beyond hiring someone because they match the job description. Most hiring managers have been there. A hire does not work out, you go back to the job description, and the person ticked most, if not […]
Hiring Circles: Our New Community
For the last three years, we have run a roundtable every quarter, alongside webinars. Those conversations have been useful to us and to the people who attend. Hiring Circles gives everyone a way to have them more often. Hiring Circles is a community for the people who shape how organisations hire: CEOs, chief people officers, […]
What Candidates Look For in an Employer Now
In the last quarter of 2023, 85% of candidates accepted the job offer they were given. By the end of 2025, that figure had fallen to 48%, according to Gartner research. OFFER ACCEPTANCE RATEQ4 202385%Q4 202548%Source: Gartner. Directional, not plotted to scale. In other words, more than half of the people employers chose, interviewed, and […]
How to Run a Post-Mortem on a Hire That Didn’t Work
If a newly hired director leaves at month 11. The role goes back on the market with the same specification, and the search is run again by the people who completed the last. What businesses almost never do in between is a proper examination of how the original decision was made and exactly why the […]
The Wisdom Gap: The Hiring Problem Nobody Owns
The ageing workforce argument has been made so often that most leadership teams have stopped hearing it. Everyone accepts that more people will leave industrial, energy, life sciences, and technology businesses over the next decade than will join them. The figure goes on a slideshow for a leadership meeting, everyone agrees it is a concern, […]
Pharma Hiring 2026: Insights and Challenges
Large pharma spent 2025 cutting jobs and still cannot fill the senior roles it needs most. Almost all those cuts landed in commercial and support functions. The vacancies that will not close are in regulatory affairs, quality, technical operations and CMC, the chemistry and manufacturing work that sits behind a filing. Regulatory affairs shows the […]
The Executive Search Process: Explained Properly
The executive search process is one of the most important journeys a business goes on.  The person at the end of it could be running the company one day. There’s no room for error at this level.  That puts as much weight on the partner running the search, as on the shortlist itself. […]
What a 12-18 Month Recruitment Guarantee Actually Means
Every recruitment partner will tell you they stand behind their work and their recruitment guarantee. Ask them for how long, and the conversation tends to get shorter. The guarantee is the only part of a recruitment process that carries a genuine cost to the supplier. Everything else is a promise about effort, candidate selection techniques […]
Hiring Intelligence: Our New Hiring Solution
Before starting a search for a new hire, understanding the current market is crucial. This is where Hiring Intelligence has its role.  Knowing what the talent pool looks like, what candidates expect to be paid, and how many people genuinely have the required experience are among the key questions worth answering before a search gets […]
Semiconductor Hiring: A Guide for Engineering LeadersÂ
Semiconductor hiring has not kept pace with the industry as it grows faster than at any point in its history. The shortfall is sharpest in the mid-senior leadership roles that keep a chip plant or a design programme on schedule. Global chip sales are on track to pass $1.5 trillion in 2026. Demand from artificial […]