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Boards run immaculate six-month searches and then abandon the hire on day one. Senior placements rarely fail on capability. They fail on the landing, and almost nobody resources it.

Reference checks at senior level have become a ritual that confirms decisions instead of testing them. Here is how to take one properly.

Why retaining older workers, and passing on what they know, has become one of the most pressing questions in UK construction and infrastructure.

Five hospital schemes, five main contractors, one region. The Norwich supplier day will answer which firms can deliver the work. It cannot answer the harder question: which people will lead it.

Ask most QSs what gets someone promoted and they'll describe doing their own job brilliantly. That's rarely the reason someone gets the tap on the shoulder.

The talent shortage is not on its way, it has already arrived. If you are hiring at any level of seniority, or weighing up your own options, the data is worth ten minutes.

Nobody is in the room when you make the good calls. If you don't write them down, the story of your year defaults to whoever is easiest to remember, and that's rarely you.

Hiring panels worry about job hoppers, but the CVs that actually trouble me show someone who stopped growing years before they left. Here is how to spot it in yourself before someone else does.

The moment a QS becomes a commercial director, the job changes from being good at the work to making other people good at it, and that first step trips up more people than anything else in the Pathway.