The Role You Think You’re Taking
A leadership role can look excellent from the outside. Ask when the fund bought the business and the shape of the job changes.
The AI Leadership Hire Nobody Is Making
AI ambition has outrun business value, and that is now a hiring problem. Why one AI chief rarely fixes it, and what a clear mandate looks like.
AI Skills Pay More Than a Master’s Degree
The skills commanding a premium in the new economy are not the ones most leaders expect, and the gap is widening.
Knowledge vs. Skills: The Hidden Gap in Hiring
🧠Declarative vs. procedural knowledge: why some hiring processes fail? Many companies know how to hire. They’ve got the job spec, a clear EVP, and someone internally to manage the process. That’s DECLARATIVE knowledge: knowing what to do. But when the process stalls? When candidates ghost, offers fall through, and engagement quietly dies? That’s when […]
The Hiring Market is the Mess: Let’s Fix It!
The hiring market is TOUGH at the moment. Everyone is slagging everyone off (on LinkedIn). Recruiters showing why they’re superior (often over other recruiters). Jobseekers are frustrated with recruiters / hiring managers. Hiring managers are frustrated with the market / recruiters / and candidates. Even LinkedIn users are slagging off LinkedIn. It’s a total mess. […]
Turning Hiring Stress Into Seamless Success
The recruitment status quo is BROKEN, so here is what I am doing differently at Talent Pools. Traditional recruitment models aren’t working. Hiring managers are frustrated, candidates are disengaged, and companies are losing out on top talent because they’re stuck in a reactive hiring cycle. I’ve spent years seeing the same pattern: roles get posted […]
