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Our blog is designed to enable us to post our own content, principally in the form of news and resources, and to showcase other parties' quality content in the areas of talent acquisition, talent development, and career development. 

We're also open to publishing guest posts. If you'd like to propose a post, please email us (with 'FAO Anthony: guest post' in the subject line) to discuss the idea.

How employers are failing to hire - and what to do about it

Anthony Haynes writes: An aspiration for our podcast, Recruitment in the Modern World, is to publish evergreen material, so that our backlist of episodes remains rewarding to listen to. A year ago, we published an episode entitled How employers are failing to hire - and what to do about it. Though, of course, there have been some changes in the talent market since then, the general scenario is similar: in particular, there are plenty of unfilled vacancies. Increasingly, we're finding clients...

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Networking - the what, why, and how

<Anthony Haynes (pictured) writes: Back in the summer of 2020, we launched our podcast, Recruitment in the Real World.  Just writing that sentence feels good - stats show that most podcasts die very quickly, after just a few episodes, so it's heartening that we're still going strong (we've just completed season 4). Our goal from the start has been to publish 'evergreen' material. Not quite literally - probably all content goes out of date eventually: but we certainly aim is to...

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How a talent team works: Andrea Montgomery

Anthony Haynes writes: On this blog we run an occasional series introducing members of our team. The aim is two-fold: to help our stakeholders to get to know us better; and to explain how the team in a talent agency works. Here I interview our latest recruit, Andrea Montgomery (pictured). What is your job title? Recruitment Consultant . And what's the function of your role? It has 3 parts really: researcher, administration and account manager (resourcing partner ). Researching core clients at...

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