It’s a long time since I blogged; well over a month, if not two and it occurred to me how quickly the time has gone and how I hadn’t really noticed it fly by.
How easy it is to get absorbed in something else you are doing and not to pay attention to something. If that happened without me noticing I then asked myself – who and what else suffers in this way?
Well, the resolution, the diet, the exercise, the phoning of the mother regularly, the cleaning of the house, the keeping in touch with a friend who is struggling….the list is pretty much endless.
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It’s always been a bit of a mystery to me how recruitment businesses can be so bad at recruiting for themselves. The success rates in the recruitment industry are very low and staff turnover high – not always to do with the companies themselves not being a great place to work but more to do with only a small percentage of hires being ultimately successful in the job. Even if we accept that recruitment is a tough business and hard to succeed in, it doesn’t explain the woefully low hiring success rates. So why are recruiters just so poor at hiring for themselves.
This is a photograph of a measuring tape like the one sitting on my office desk. It belonged to my Dad.
A gentler but nonetheless critical activity kicks off this final week.
