Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh once estimated that bad hires had cost his firm company “well over $100 million”. Almost half of hiring/HR managers (41%) believe that bad hires have cost their firms “thousands” and the U.S. Department of Labour puts the price of a bad hire at least 30% of the employee’s first-year earning. However, […]
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Are you guilty of confirmation bias? It’s a psychological habit where you filter your reality until it resembles something more aligned with your existing beliefs. I think we’re all a bit guilty of it from time to time. For example, you think that your co-workers are lazy so all you see is them sloping off
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I recently wrote an article for Access Talent’s sister company Stoneseed, about the potential impending rollout of IR35 rules to the Private Sector and how it will impact IT Project resourcing. Since then I have had a number of requests for my predictions about what this might all mean for IT recruitment. The main thing
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Interesting scenario this week in the world of IT & Project Management Recruiting. A client asked us to find an IT Project Manager. Simple enough, we have a live database of interviewed talent and we maintain regular contact with them. What’s more, we have a relationship with the client that is based on a deep
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If you have had anything to do with Public Sector IT procurement over the past two years or so, either as a client or a contractor, IR35 has probably never been far from your mind. My friend, a Public Sector IT Project Manager, jokes that he’d started seeing IR35 everywhere, “It’s been the topic of
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The remote employment trend is being adopted by many organizations nowadays, given its multiple benefits such as low operational costs and ease of management. More and more teams worldwide are counting on remote employees to run the show, with most of them working with a computing device and an internet connection. Though this employment model
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It is more common than ever before that project managers now have to manage remote project teams. These teams might be in a different business location in the same country or, equally likely, in a different country and time zone altogether. Companies of all sizes now regularly outsource work to take advantage of skilled
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Project Management is the second most boring job in the world, according to a recent study. When you factor in that working in IT also makes the top ten you would be forgiven for imagining that all IT Project Managers must be constantly nodding off on the job. Who did they ask? It reminds me
IT Project Management boring? Are you sure you’re doing it right? Read More »
I just gave some seemingly contrary advice. “You need to be more solid, steady, dependable, consistent – you’re all over the place,” I told an experienced IT Project Manager friend who is having one of those blips where nothing goes right. “OK, how?” he asked. I thought and answered,
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Why set up a new IT recruitment agency when a Google search of the term returns about 46.2 million results? A crowded marketplace that! Thing is, whilst as an employer we could find lots of agencies, consultants and service providers – we struggled to find one partner. And this
