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07/10/2026

Want your candidates walking out of an interview saying, “I WANT that job”?

Then make sure your clients know how to interview.

The best hiring managers don’t just grill candidates. They sell the opportunity. The projects. The team. The culture. Why they joined. Why they’ve stayed. Why they’re excited about what’s ahead.

As recruiters, we spend so much time prepping candidates, but prepping the client can be just as important.

Find the client everyone wants to work for. Study how they interview. Then help your other clients replicate it.

A brilliant candidate + a brilliant interview experience = a much better chance of getting the deal over the line.

🎧 Latest episode out now! Tune in via link in bio.

07/10/2026

Recruiters, time isn’t linear. You get to decide where it goes.

If you’re constantly getting sidetracked and not doing the business development or pipeline generation you need to, try this:

Block out the first 2–3 hours of your day for pipeline work. Nothing else.

No emails.
No answering calls.
No getting dragged into everyone else’s priorities.

Your desk, your rules.

Protect your morning, protect your pipeline, and watch how much more you get done.

06/10/2026

When things aren’t working, our natural response is usually to push harder.

Stay later.

Do more.

Try harder.

Add another thing.

And sometimes that’s exactly what’s required.

But there’s a point where more effort starts producing worse work.

You’re tired, so everything takes longer.

Your concentration is shot.

You make stupid mistakes.

You become reactive.

Your patience disappears.

You sit at your desk for ten hours but probably do four hours of genuinely useful work.

So you respond by working eleven.

And now you’re even more tired tomorrow.

That’s a sh*tty little cycle.

High performance isn’t about squeezing the maximum possible amount of work out of every day.

It’s being able to produce good work consistently over time.

Sometimes that means pushing.

Sometimes it means recovering.

Sometimes it means looking at the ten things you’re doing and deciding three of them need to go.

Because if your answer to every plateau is simply more...

eventually there’s nothing left to give.

And that’s usually when your body decides to make the decision for you.

05/10/2026

Counting down to #1 of my top 5 recruitment rituals - this is #3!

The candidate shrine.

Got someone on interview? Up goes their photo, LinkedIn profile or name on the board. Then everyone in the office adds a little something for good luck. A message of encouragement, some beads, a magic feather... whatever brings the good juju.

Ridiculous? Maybe. But if it helps get the placement over the line, who are we to question it? 😂

Would you try the candidate shrine?

02/10/2026

When exactly is that?

After this project?

After Christmas?

When the kids are older?

When work calms down?

When you’ve got more money?

When you’ve got more energy?

There will always be something.

I used to think there’d eventually be a stage of life where everything was nicely organised and I’d have heaps of spare time to do all the things I wanted to do.

I’m still waiting.

Life changes.

But it doesn’t necessarily get less full.

One problem disappears and another one takes its place.

So if there’s something important you’ve been waiting to start when life gives you a clear runway...

you might be waiting a bloody long time.

Maybe the question isn’t when life will make room for it.

Maybe you have to make the room.

Not loads.

Start with what you’ve got.

An hour.

Twenty minutes.

One conversation.

One action.

Because six months from now life will probably still be busy.

The only difference is you could be six months further into the thing you’ve been waiting to begin.

30/09/2026

We have confidence backwards.

We think:

First I’ll feel confident.

Then I’ll do the thing.

But think about almost anything you’re genuinely confident doing now.

You probably weren’t confident the first time.

Driving.

Speaking in front of people.

Doing your job.

Walking into a gym.

Parenting.

Running a business.

Whatever it is.

The confidence came later.

After you’d done it badly.

After you’d made mistakes.

After you’d survived a few awkward moments.

After you’d accumulated enough evidence that you could handle it.

That’s how confidence gets built.

So waiting for confidence before you act creates a pretty obvious problem.

You’re waiting for the result of an experience you refuse to have.

Do it nervous.

Do it uncertain.

Do it knowing you might make a complete arse of yourself.

Then do it again.

Eventually your brain catches up.

And one day you’ll do something without thinking twice that once terrified you.

That’s confidence.

24/09/2026

Closing the laptop isn’t the same thing as finishing work.

Anyone who’s spent an entire dinner mentally composing tomorrow’s email knows that.

Your body is home.

Your brain is still at work.

Thinking about the conversation.

The problem you haven’t solved.

Tomorrow’s list.

The thing you forgot to do.

And because none of it has been properly closed, your brain keeps bringing it back up.

One thing that can help is ridiculously simple.

Before you finish work, write down everything that’s still open.

What needs doing.

What you’re worried you’ll forget.

The first thing you’ll tackle tomorrow.

Anything that’s still rattling around.

Get it out of your head and put it somewhere you trust.

Then actually finish.

No quick email while you’re cooking.

No checking something before bed unless it genuinely cannot wait.

Give your brain a clear signal that work has ended.

You might not be able to stop every thought showing up.

But you don’t have to invite it in for dinner.

24/09/2026

Recruiters are a superstitious bunch 😂
The bell. The lucky rituals. The songs. The weird little traditions that make absolutely no sense to anyone outside the office.
One of my favourites? The placement song 🎵
Everyone gets their own song. Make a placement? Crank it through the office. Eventually, you only need to hear the first few seconds to know exactly who’s just done a deal.
Ridiculous? Maybe.
Great for culture? Absolutely.
In this episode, I’m counting down five of the best recruitment superstitions and traditions I’ve come across over the years.
Some are brilliant. Some are completely cooked. And I reckon a few will be very familiar to anyone who’s spent time in a recruitment office.
What’s the weirdest recruitment ritual you’ve seen?
Tune in to full ep via link in bio.

22/09/2026

You finally get an afternoon off.

Nothing urgent.

Nobody needs anything.

You could actually relax.

And somehow...

you feel guilty.

There’s that little voice telling you there’s something you could be doing.

An email you could send.

Something you could prepare.

A job around the house.

A workout.

A side project.

Anything that would make the time feel “useful”.

So even when you’re resting, you’re not really resting.

You’re sitting there thinking about everything you aren’t doing.

I think this happens when productivity slowly becomes tangled up with self-worth.

A productive day feels like a good day.

Therefore an unproductive day starts feeling like a bad one.

And eventually doing nothing feels like you’re failing.

But your brain and body don’t operate like machines.

Recovery isn’t wasted time.

Sleep isn’t wasted time.

Seeing your mates isn’t wasted time.

Sitting on the beach doing absolutely f*ck all isn’t wasted time.

Those things are part of having a life.

And ironically, they’re also part of being able to perform properly when you do work.

So if you struggle to switch off without feeling guilty, maybe ask yourself:

Who decided every hour of my life needs to produce something?

Because it doesn’t.

18/09/2026

January is easy.

Monday is easy.

Day one of the new plan is easy.

You’re excited.

You’ve decided things are changing.

So naturally, you go absolutely mental.

Gym five days a week.

No alcohol.

Up at 5am.

New diet.

New routine.

New business plan.

You’re going to become an entirely different human being by Thursday.

Then actual life happens.

You sleep badly.

Work gets busy.

The kids need something.

You miss one day.

Then another.

And suddenly the whole thing feels ruined.

I think we set ourselves up for this.

We build plans for the most motivated version of ourselves instead of the person who actually has to live them.

Consistency doesn’t need an impressive plan.

It needs one you can keep doing when you’re tired, busy, pi**ed off and absolutely cannot be bothered.

Start smaller than your ego wants to.

Three gym sessions you actually do beats six you quit after two weeks.

Twenty minutes every day beats three hours once a month.

Boring consistency isn’t exciting enough to post about.

But give it a year and it’ll beat almost everything else.

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