TL;DR
Okay, Substack is hard to navigate.
And you may have missed editions of YMMV that are helpful or interesting.
So here’s a content page, including a few of my themes.
Editing it has been a challenge. Hopefully, all the links work. It’s in reverse chronological order.
1/ Innovation through iteration - principles from out of industry
2/ No problem - recruitment problems as opportunity
3/ Recruitment Writing - better outcomes from writing
4/ Recruited reflected - lessons from candidate experience
5/ Selected others
Smoking gun Recruitment plot devices
First contact Principles for recruitment
Intention intervention Engagement vs experience
Subliminal Selling without selling
Hold the cow Popular opinion in recruitment
Deck the hall The Monty Hall Problem in recruitment
No entry The Doorman Fallacy and Candidate Experience
Down to size Editing recruitment
Brief encounters Beat the bots
Square one Beginning again, again
Begin again A recruitment thought experiment
Kill the cat Curiouser and curiouser
Spitting nails The rise of candidate resentment
The Maslow lowdown Candidate attraction from needs
Give and take The value exchange
Barrier to entry Accessibility in recruitment
North star EVP – the people playbook
Who do you think you are? Positioning in recruitment
Everybody lies But does it really matter?
Show me the money Commercialising candidate experience
When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not coconuts Find the ‘no’.
Dance to the tune A practical benefit of diversity in recruitment
Salary on the Job Description? Questionable ethics
The pain mirror Candidate psychology for better engagement
Market Forces Newsletter #1
Culture is Consort Culture in recruitment
CV or not CV An out-of-date summary of candidacy?
How to inter a body Putting the inter back in interview
What a load of Boolean An even better search?
Programmable search engines A better search
Always be closing? Gaining candidate commitment in the right way
Detachment bias A confident hire?
Passive Aggressive Does candidate status matter?
Context is king The insight that improves how you recruit
Who owns Marmite? A view on recruitment branding
The Great People Shortage Threat and opportunity
Should I stay or should I go? Retention and better recruitment.
The Dalek and the staircase Removing barriers for simpler recruitment.
All aboard! Getting your next employees ready for success.
Salary on the job description Better recruitment from transparent data
The longest path How to complete your recruitment process in the quickest time
Reciprocity and recruitment We only get what we give
Benefits, not benefits Giving people reason to work for you
Project blackout What do job descriptions and a Bulchholz Protection Relay have in common?
What good looks like The importance of realistically defining ‘good’ in a candidate for easier recruitment.
New Employee Success Because you want to hire people that give you what you need
World's Best Coffee! The clichés that stop people applying to your adverts
A pizza cake Job adverts that work
Substack says this is too long for email, so you may find it easier to navigate on the website.
Thanks for reading.
Greg
