My blog
I write in an ecclectic mix of English and Swedish, about everything and anything related sourcing, recruitment and employer branding.
My blog
I write in an ecclectic mix of English and Swedish, about everything and anything related sourcing, recruitment and employer branding.
Sourcing for Grade – my latest assignment
Sourcing for Grade When I set up my business my plan wasn’t to do one off recruitments, but work as a long term partner with my clients. I didn’t want to set up a traditional recruitment agency in that sense. But when Andreas from Workbuster asked me if I could help...
An onboarding assignment at IDG Recruitment
After finishing my 3 year long assignment with Toca Boca in December last year I was thinking about what kind of assignments I wanted to focus on in 2023. I decided I wanted to do shorter assignment, with a variety of clients, acting more as an advisor rather than...
Measuring the candidate experience – learnings from using Trustcruit
Measuring the candidate experience - learnings from using Trustcruit To me the candidate experience is a very important part of my job as a recruiter. Providing a great experience to all applicants, successful or not, will only strengthen your employer brand, thus...
Candidate Motivation
Candidate motivation A little while back (actually, quite a while back) I recorded an episode of the podcast Talent Savvy together with Bas van de Haterd and the discussions we had sparked me into writing this blog post. The topic for the show was “Candidate...
If I can avoid sourcing, I will.
If I can avoid sourcing, I will. Ok ok, it’s a bit of a click baity title but hear me out. If I can get good enough people to apply on their own accord, then why would I go looking for them? Despite the title of this post, I love sourcing. But that doesn’t mean I...
2020 wasn’t all bad
I started thinking about this blog post as a counter to all the "2020 was so crap". Don't get me wrong, 2020 was pretty crap, but it wasn't all bad. At least not for me. I've been lucky enough to work for a client, Toca Boca, that has not been affected in a negative...
Did it work? – looking back at the past 6 months
Earlier this year I wrote series of blog posts about my first few weeks as the Recruitment Manager at Toca Boca. It started as an idea after I did a talk at TechRec in Berlin called “How to be a one person recruitment team”. As a little bit more than half a year has...
Escaping Linkedin
Last week I was meant to be at SourceCon in Lisbon giving a talk titled "Escaping Linkedin" (the theme of the conference was "Escape Room"). The world had other plans. Then a couple of people gave me the idea of turning the talk into a blog post instead. I have a...
How to be a one person recruitment team – Part Three – Optimization
This is the third and final part of a three part blog series about “How to be a one person recruitment team”. This particular post focuses on Optimization and how I will deal with this in the next few months in my role as Recruitment Manager at Toca Boca. Part One was...