Shits and Giggles with HR Episode #1

What is Right About the Recruitment Industry Could Be Written on a Stamp!

Join Lisa Haggar and Katrina Collier to discuss what is wrong with the recruitment industry. The horror stories of people going through 6 rounds to get a job and then getting no reply, or how people receiving job offers then leave their job, only to be told that the job they applied for & won, has been made redundant before they even start!

Sharing Resources Mentioned By Katrina in the Podcast

Katrina's Website

The Robot-Proof Recruiter

Getting back to people:

https://circlebackinitiative.com/

https://end-ghosting.com/

Places to feedback:

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/interview/

https://indeed.com

https://www.kununu.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell

You Can Read the Shits and Giggles with HR Episode #1: What is Right About the Recruitment Industry Could Be Written on a Stamp! Transcript Below:

What is wrong with the recruitment industry?

 

Darren A. Smith:

Let's start. Welcome to the Shitz and Giggles with HR podcast. We're here with Lisa. Haggar, Lisa. Say hello, please.

Lisa Haggar:

Good evening. Hello everybody.

Darren A. Smith:

And we're also here with Katrina Collier. Hello, Katrina.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Hello.

Darren A. Smith:

Hi I'm your host, Darren Smith. We'll come back to these lovely ladies in a moment. Our topic for tonight and I'm going to blame Lisa for this is what is right about the recruitment industry could be written on a stamp. Katrina, I'm just gonna come to you and ask what's your name in this game? What do you do?

Darren A. Smith:

Let's stop listening.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

So I am best known as the author of the Robot Proof Recruiter that I have been in the recruitment industry for nearly two decades, and I spend most of my time delivering design thinking workshops to fix candidate experience and recruitment. And I also have a coaching and mentoring group that's probably me in a nutshell, but plenty plenty of experience in their recruitment and talent acquisition space.

Darren A. Smith:

Brilliant. Brilliant. But we wanna get into that and ask you what's wrong with this industry. Let me just come to Lisa for first. Lisa, what do you do?

Lisa Haggar:

It's a good question. I tell people I knit Jelly for a living because when you tell them the work in HR, it switches people off quicker than if you're the tax man. So I knit Jelly Darren.

Darren A. Smith:

Yeah.

Darren A. Smith:

Yeah. It's. OK. That's good.

Lisa Haggar:

Or otherwise known as the ******** from HR Queen of HR on LinkedIn, the opinionated small 5 foot blonde who has a lot to say about most things.

Darren A. Smith:

Lovely. And how do you guys know each other?

Katrina Collier (Guest):

LinkedIn.

Lisa Haggar:

Uh, Katrina's fabulous, and I know everybody who's fabulous on LinkedIn. Simple.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Is it LinkedIn? I don't know how we know each other. That's hilarious. Yeah, LinkedIn.

Lisa Haggar:

It is, yes, yes, I remember. I remember the day we met Katrina. Do you mean you? You can't remember that wonderful time? I don't know.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Yeah.

Darren A. Smith:

Well, thank you both.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Menopause.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Hmm.

Darren A. Smith:

Thank you both for joining us for ***** and Giggles, HR podcast. Katrina, let's start with you. So at the topic is what's wrong with the recruitment industry? What's wrong with it?

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Ohh I thought it was what's right with it that you could write in the back of a postage stamp.

Darren A. Smith:

Ohh, actually let's start the then. See even better what's right with it.

Darren A. Smith:

But.

Katrina Collier (Guest):

Yeah, because that that really, really made me laugh. Because when Lisa sent me that, I just thought Katrina Collier. That'll fit on the back of a postage stamp. And I thought,