I live in Saigon, Vietnam, and I also blog at www.saigonsays.com more personally about life, family and work out here in this incredible city and this wonderful region of the world.
Definitelymaybe kicked off as a new writing project in January 2013, on the back of some changes in my life. 2013 was the Year of the Snake (for all you Lunar followers) – a year of skin shedding and a suitable time, for me at least, for ‘reinvention.’
I worked for the international development NGO, CARE International, for 13 years, up until October 2019 and am currently freelance consulting and using http://www.coracleconsulting.net for this. Check it out!
On DefinitelyMaybe you will find me blogging about current affairs, international development, and also about the power of reinventing new things and, as Mr Bob Black once said, “marching off the edge of our maps”.
Whatever Mr Black was getting at with this statement is unclear, but I like it nonetheless.
Enjoy today.
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hi. please add more to your blog cause I love it.
what a stellar thing to say – cheers! – I will do my best, and will check your blog out also later on tonight.
cheers fella
Your blog is a fascinating read! I’ve nominated you for the Liebster award for blogging. Find more details here: http://babystepstobump.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/the-liebster-award/
Thanks for this, Tim. The descriptions feel very familiar, but not sure that the idea for some sort of oral application would work – surely they’d only get monitored by AI as well? In terms of providing feedback, I’m sure that employers could provide AI generated feedback (you are wrong age/wrong gender/wrong nationality), but this would be exposing them to many challenges. So, when the hiring process is seen as employers are choosing and applicants are simply supplicants, I don’t see much changing. As you’re mentioning, a good hiring process should be about finding candidates that fit within the team, which implies that there is real thought about how the team is constructed, what skills gaps there are, what the team dynamics look like….. sadly, I don’t believe that this is how recruitment is working at present. The hiring department says ‘we need another engineer/medic/manager’, then this is passed to HR to do the recruitment. There isn’t analysis of the issues you’ve mentioned. So, no wonder we get mismatches of people and roles!
Hi Gary! Long time no speak!
I appreciate you stopping by, and your comments – all great – on this. I agree with you on the team dynamics point 100%. I think a lot of orgs strive for authenticity but have created systems that don’t allow it (my mate in NGO recruitment gave me this line). She also said that for the video pitch idea, “even if you ask people to do a video pitch, some people will be naturally good at it and others won’t” which is true.
Anyways, hope all well with you??
TB