General Recruitment – Page 2

Don’t Let SOS Ruin You

Shiny Object Syndrome Short of Christmas and disco decoration manufacturing, there are few industries that endure so co-operatively with SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome) as much as information technology. Nearly every tech company suffers unduly from staff-turnover ratios higher than they’d like. Firstly, some turn-over is healthy; new ideas, new blood, new insights & innovation. It’s when we start climbing into the late teens and 20% that things start to become untenable. With tech, the strikingly rapid change and innovation [...]

Dunning, Kruger, & The Puzzle of Recruitment

Like most things; painting, psychology, sports, fashion, architecture; there are sets of fundamental rules, and everything else is just icing. Well yes and no… Two researchers in the late 1990’s, Dunning and Kruger, conducted a series of experiments around the postulation that there is a fundamental disconnect between self-assessment and actual capability according to the level of exposure an individual has to true expertise in a given field. It’s only when you get to a [...]