Please, consider the humans.
If you're a leader or someone responsible for looking after people who work within an organisation — I hope this resonates.
Consider the humans.
I know you care about employee experience, culture, psychological safety, engagement and retention. What about how you hire?
Is your recruitment human-centric?
Is it intentional and effective?
I care deeply about making hiring easier for nonprofits and helping leaders get recruitment right. Because talent attraction and retention are mission-critical for the sector.
Also because better recruitment is good for humans too.
We need to put the human back into hiring.
There’s a lot we can improve in hiring. So much that I've written a book about it. For today let's start with these 3 simple things:
Curiosity — What do people want? What matters to them?
Consideration — What is our recruitment process like for the humans on the other side of it? How do we treat people? How do we make them feel?
Compassion — How can we make this process more human? More respectful and kind?
One of the themes to come through in my research for the book was kindness in leadership. People shared stories of leaders who were thoughtful, warm and genuinely decent — as well as those who weren’t. While there are many traits that make a good leader, perhaps kindness is still undervalued.
The same applies to how we hire.
Hiring the right people is one of the most critical decisions a leader can make. Yet the way we approach this deeply human experience — the start of a professional relationship — often fails both job seekers and employers. It’s time to change that.
Human-centred hiring sounds obvious, right? Yet, despite the growing focus on culture and employee experience, most organisations don’t have a truly human-first approach to recruitment.
It's time to flip the script.
Effective recruitment puts the talent you need to attract at the heart of the process.
You can't understand important things from a distance. You have to get up close. Learning about others' perspectives and experiences requires proximity. I can help you with that.
I believe how we hire needs a shake up. If you agree — or you're simply curious about this, you're in the right place.
The world of work has changed. The power dynamic has shifted. The employer-employee relationship isn't 'them' and 'us'. We’re all just humans.
And let’s face it — you’ve been a candidate too.
You can put the human back into hiring AND get better business outcomes.
> More of the right people wanting to work with you.
> Less time and money spent on recruitment.
> Better engagement, lower turnover and stronger performance.
I can show you the direct line between human-centred hiring and real results. It all starts with considering the humans — and asking the right questions.
The dawn of a new year is approaching, let's put the human back into hiring.