Recruitment in the modern world Fiona Wilson

Anthony Haynes writes: Though the majority of our episodes concern talent acquisition, we also cover wider aspects of human resources - notably talent development. That is our focus here. 

In particular, drawing on Fiona Wilson's experience of providing coaching services, we reflect on the nature of coaching.

In particular, we explore:
who benefits most from coaching - and howwhich contexts are most suitablehow to establish goals, scope, and expectationscharacteristics of getting started and early-stage coachingthe roles and responsibilities of the coach and coacheeFurther listening

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FJ Wilson Talent Services provides recruitment and talent development services and also coaching for individuals.

We specialise in professional roles at mid or senior level, Our core market comprises organisations for professionals - typically membership bodies, learning providers, and awarding bodies.

To find out more about our services and to contact us, visit our website fjwilson.com.

Anthony Haynes writes: My impression from attending Recruitment Expo a couple of weeks ago was that a couple of themes were dominating discussion - one was technology, especially AI, and the other was diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI).

When it comes to the latter, we think there's a premium on discussion that is rooted in experience and deals with specifics. In this episode, our returning guest - Dawn Pike of New Dawn Consulting - absolutely fits the bill.

Here Dawn reflects on her experience, especially of introducing DEI policy. with a focus on aspects of recruitment. Dawn helpfully distils the learning points that might prove applicable in other contexts.

Links

The website for Dawn's company, New Dawn HR is here: https://www.newdawnhrconsultancy.com/.

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FJ Wilson Talent Services provides recruitment and talent development services and also coaching for individuals.

We specialise in professional roles at mid or senior level, Our core market comprises organisations for professionals - typically membership bodies, learning providers, and awarding bodies.

To find out more about our services and to contact us, visit our website fjwilson.com.

Anthony Haynes writes: So, you've completed the selection process and offered the job to your favoured candidate: how does the journey progress from there?

This episode focuses on two key, inter-locking, processes: onboarding and induction.

To guide us through the journey, we interview expert HR consultant Dawn Pike of New Dawn PR (logo featured here). With the help of a positive case study - appointing a senior role at Dawn's previous employer, International House London.

Our conversation covers the key do and don'ts - in particular, what all-too-common pitfalls to avoid and what reciprocal behaviours (of employer and recruit) help people to hit the ground running.


Links

The website for Dawn's company, New Dawn HR is here: https://www.newdawnhrconsultancy.com/.

International House London may be found here: https://www.ihlondon.com/.

Further listening

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might find the following of particular interest:
How to on-board recruitsHow to provide great induction for recruitsFinally, what we do

FJ Wilson Talent Services provides recruitment and talent development services and also coaching for individuals.

We specialise in professional roles at mid or senior level, Our core market comprises organisations for professionals - typically membership bodies, learning providers, and awarding bodies.

To find out more about our services and to contact us, visit our website fjwilson.com.

Anthony Haynes writes: Our work at FJ Wilson Talent Services is concerned with social media in two ways. The first (perhaps more minor way) concerns our own use of social media; the second concerns our stakeholders'.

In this episode, we reflect on the characteristics of effective use of social media. In particular, we consider:
the significance of opportunity cost and the need for disciplinewhich metrics matterthe need to move beyond treating social media purely as push mediaFurther listening

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FJ Wilson Talent Services provides recruitment and talent development services and also coaching for individuals.

We specialise in professional roles at mid or senior level, Our core market comprises organisations for professionals - typically membership bodies, learning providers, and awarding bodies.

To find out more about our services and to contact us, visit our website fjwilson.com.

Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.

Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the development of such empathy.

We explore the work of an agency by exploring in turn each of the roles involved.

In addition to the client-facing and candidate-facing roles, we include in the series the contribution of ancillary roles.

In this episode, the seventh interview in the series, we introduce Bart Hallmark. Bart h typically contributes to our work through his digital communication skills - in particular, by hosting our webinars and editing our podcast episodes.

Bart discusses in particular what she has noticed as distinctive about work in the talent sector.

Further listening

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FJ Wilson Talent Services provides recruitment and talent development services and also coaching for individuals.

We specialise in professional roles at mid or senior level, Our core market comprises organisations for professionals - typically membership bodies, learning providers, and awarding bodies.

To find out more about our services and to contact us, visit our website fjwilson.com.

Anthony Haynes writes: Talent agencies contribute most effectively to talent acquisition when there's an empathy between agencies and their stakeholders.

Our series, How Talent Acquisition Works, is designed to contribute to the development of such empathy.

We explore the work of an agency by exploring in turn each of the roles involved.

In addition to the client-facing and candidate-facing roles, we include in the series the contribution of ancillary roles.

In this episode, the sixth interview in the series, we introduce Sherah Beckley: Sherah typically contributes to our work through her expertise as an interviewer, but in this episode the roles are reversed as Sherah takes the interviewee's chair.

Sherah discusses in particular what she has noticed as distinctive about the work in the talent sector.

Further listening

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might enjoy the following episodes:
The Account Manager roleThe Resourcing Partner roleThe Researcher RoleThe Administrator RoleThe Managing Director's roleFinally, what we do

FJ Wilson Talent Services provides recruitment and talent development services and also coaching for individuals.

We specialise in professional roles at mid or senior level, Our core market comprises organisations for professionals - typically membership bodies, learning providers, and awarding bodies.

To find out more about our services and to contact us, visit our website fjwilson.com.