Award-winning ‘recruitment industry lifer’, NED and Strategic Coach, Alison Humphries is imparting her knowledge from a 30-year recruitment career into her brand new book, ‘Seven Habits of Successful Recruitment Leaders’.

A couple of months ago, I started to work with a new client. This business owner was recruiting in a buoyant sector but his sales revenue had dipped a little over the last two years, due to difficulties retaining staff.

Fostering good habits within your business builds an infrastructure that makes virtuous behaviour more automatic. The result? More success in realising your organisation’s goals, while bolstering the opportunity to take on more challenging goals.

The pandemic has made it absolutely clear that we are not “all in the same boat”. More accurately, all recruitment businesses have been through the same storm – but our ships are different.