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Published essays live on the public site.
Focus
Process design, recruiter economics, AI, and the human judgement behind great hiring.
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Shorter essays, clearer arguments, and one strong idea per post.
Company-focused / Hiring operations
Timetohire is one of the most tracked recruitment metrics. But when speed becomes the primary goal, hiring quality suffers. Here’s what the data says and what to measure instead.
Written by
Brendan Woodage
Published
7 Apr 2026
Reading time
5 min read
UK employers are rethinking recruitment agency fees in 2026 as hiring slows, costs rise and traditional fee models face more scrutiny. Here is what has changed and what to review.
Most recruiter tools are sold with the same promise. More speed. Better matches. Cleaner pipelines. Less admin. And to be fair, some of them do exactly that. But that is also where a lot of hiring teams go wrong. They treat tools as the solution when the re...
A practical guide to using AI across your recruitment workflow, from role scoping to screening and candidate communication, with suggestions on where it helps most and where human judgement still matters.
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