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,