I have interviewed a lot of people in my career in Automotive Executive Search, and there is something I have been noticing more and more over the last couple of years. For want of a better way to put it, it is a rise in evidence of poor behaviours in the workplace or, more specifically,...Read More

A business is nothing more than a bunch of people working together (one would hope) to achieve a common goal or goals. Of course there are myriad ways to look at a business that make the thing seem a lot more complicated than that, but essentially, that’s what it is. And when you have to...Read More

I don’t know about you, but I found the London Marathon inspiring and not a little instructive. I participated in the marathon-length London Moonwalk a few years ago, so I know that it’s a great undertaking to cover 26 miles at any speed. I remember the training, the sore feet, and the occasional sugary intake...Read More

Despite the new shared parental leave law, more women than men will experience a significant career break to have children, and will need to navigate their way back into work and face the challenges associated with this. Other women in an organisation who have undergone the same experience would have a unique opportunity here to...Read More

This post is about my favourite element of my job, which is working with candidates. More specifically, it’s about something I have noticed the best candidates manage to do throughout the process of being approached by a Search professional like me, then continue to do when being interviewed by my clients, and thereafter right to...Read More

Oscar Wilde once said; “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” And how relevant this is, so many years on… It doesn’t seem such a surprise now that younger people are advancing in their careers so quickly. Yet the barrier of which can, arguably, be ‘lack of experience.’ This is something quite consistently...Read More