Role Playing Games is one easy and fun way to upskill your Recruiting game (pun intended). You may never have heard of serious games or think that RPGs are for nerds on TV but they can really help your self upskilling.

Time for the new year, new you and the new year’s resolutions. 2020 became a thing of the past and we have a blank slate to be more {insert desirable behaviour}, to stop {insert undesirable behaviour}, to start doing {insert desirable behaviour}.

As 2020 finally comes to a close, I decided that my last blog post would reflect on the stuff I learnt and/or achieved during a year that turned out to be as far as it possibly could be from what we expected and had planned for.

Over the last 4 years, I’ve been recruiting recruiters and the main trait my hiring managers were looking for was “resilience”. But what is resilience, really and is it the be all and end all skill that we believe it to be when we interview candidates?

Tuesday, September 29th marked 200 days of lockdown in Dublin. Here is how 200 days of lockdown affected me personally and professionally.

Once upon a time, I worked from home only if I didn't have any other choice. Random fears and anxiety stopped me from enjoying focus time as well as peace and quiet while working. Thankfully, the lockdown has cured that.

You know the saying if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. How do you then give feedback? So, if the feedback is not positive, it's not nice to say it, so we shouldn't? But what if the context is to improve yourself?

A self-improvement exercise: How to coach myself to be self-reliant? Self-reliance became more important in everyone's life since we all became remote workers and communication became asynchronous: what can I do if there's no-one to help me "right now"?

Thirty-nine days ago, I was home with strep tonsillitis – at the time one of the most contagious diseases – when I got a call from our MD: can the whole office work remotely?