Knightsbridge Blog

Carmen brings 13 years of recruitment to her practice at Knightsbridge. Working creatively to source and deliver top talent, she has collaborated with diverse clients from Fortune 1000s through to growth oriented technology start-ups. Carmen’s forte is her uncanny ability to uncover the essentials...

'Tis the season to be jolly and introspective when it comes to your career path and life in general. In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, poor Ebenezer Scrooge has a rude awakening when the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future help him to realize the negative path he was on. Being bitter...

Having spent a day with the incredible social HR community created by Impact99  a few weeks ago, I'm compelled to blog about the wave of social media empowered workplaces that are cropping up. Trust me, if Impact's keynote speakers, like Sunayna Tuteja of TD Bank Group and Jason Dykstra of Telus are...

With hundreds of emails coming at us every day, it's often the ones with clear and engaging subject lines that get a response. If your subject line lacks urgency or relevance, it’s likely your email will be opened last or pushed to the time slot allotted for cleaning out emails.  Engaging and clear...

 Founder's Syndrome, otherwise known as Founderitis, isn't a good thing for employees or employers. (Disclaimer & Warning: This post features extreme bouts of sarcasm.) Symptoms of Founderitis   1. Leaders suffering from Founderitis lead with a sense of having to be a part of every decision and...

Getting out there and becoming a freelance executive-for-hire has a lot in common with being an aspiring surfer. You've got to get out and ride the waves in order to truly become a master.   The life of a freelancer can boil down to waking up and literally not knowing where the next assignment is...

Corporate Recruiters and HR Professionals unite! If you're on the frontlines launching workforce and talent attraction strategies, remember this, you have only seconds to capture a star candidate's attention. How are you going to do it? Here are some suggestions: Ask a provocative question. "Are you...

Having recruited through the dot com boom and now trying to find my way through the world of social HR, I have spent over a decade of my life online. Every year brings new and wonderful ways to leverage the web for recruitment and for enhancing employer and personal brands. With performance...

I wrote a blog a few months ago called 9 Executive Resume Do's and Don'ts. The commentary was in part driven by my fatigue over words like experienced and accomplished when it comes to ways executives and resume writers like to describe success and tenure in the workplace. My feelings around dull...

My purchase of an iPhone and an iPad last month got me thinking about touch screen mobile devices, creativity and our right brains. It also got me thinking about how both devices have enhanced how I interact with people in world around me. Having been a BlackBerry user since 2000, switching to an...

I think it’s safe to say that being considered innovative is something we as individuals truly appreciate and embrace. Innovation is often tied to success and progress, making it an intrinsic factor in the evolution of cultures, societies, and economies. Businesses and the brands, services and...

My friend Chris inspired this blog post. He is a former candidate of mine who I worked with during the dot com boom at Data Mirror, a data replication company that has long since been bought by IBM. Chris has been out on his own for the past few years, he is an Interim Sales Executive. We had a...

1. DON'T use the words Accomplished, Seasoned, Senior or the Phrase, Extensive Experience in your PROFILE. You are an Executive, let's not state the obvious.2. DO use action verbs like Built, Drove, Increased, Delivered, Designed, Lead, Launched and Established. You have been successful and that...

Reinvention has been on my mind a lot lately, and here's why.In the face of the world disasters surrounding 2010 and 2011, the globe has experienced tsunami's, earthquakes, floods and fires that have destroyed communities, families and ecosystems at uncanny scales and frequencies. Conversely, in the...