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On the 5th September, our Mental Health in Recruitment Ambassador Michelle Flynn will be joining Matt Bagwell on his journey to Run The...
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Ticking A Box Or Making A Difference?
At the end of 2020, Mental Health In Recruitment surveyed the industry to understand how mental health was perceived and supported in the...
The Importance of Boundaries to Support Mental Health in the Workplace
By Kate Hayward - MHIR Ambassador What are boundaries? A boundary is an invisible line that you do not cross or a limit to what you or...
Mental Health in the Recruitment Industry – Then VS Now
By Matt Collingwood - MHIR Ambassador With last week being ‘Mental Health Awareness Week 2021’, I couldn’t think of a better time to...
Elliott's Story
On April 20th I connected with a Recruitment Leader on LinkedIn. He told me in confidence that he had his own experience of depression...
Why Workplace Wellbeing Really Matters
Having worked in the recruitment industry for 15 years, and across 3 different countries, I have made some great friends and had some...
How To Make A Long Lasting Change
How do you make 2021 the year that you actually stick to your resolutions? Let’s be honest, most of us have broken them by the 2nd...
A Life-Changing Year (And I Don't Mean Covid)
Over the years, people have often asked me what I believe the definition of resilience is and how resilience ties to mental health, our...
Giving The Industry A Voice
On Thursday 10th September, Mental Health In Recruitment proudly launches the first industry-wide mental health survey that canvasses...
Inhale… exhale… repeat…
Breathing is one of the most undervalued functions of our bodies and yet we do it all day, every day (approx 25,000 times). Because...
The Many Misconceptions of Burnout
Ahh, burnout… You glorious little devil, you Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared burnout is now a syndrome (a step up...
Three Tips to Beat Insomnia: Breaking the Cycle
“School isn’t for you.” “You shouldn’t be here.” “You need to quit.” That’s what my counsellor said heading into my third year of high...
How Stress Can Shut Down Your Immune System
The lead-up to my thirtieth birthday was intense. My online business was still in a state of flux, which of course left me in a state of...
Getting It Right, Right Now
The last few weeks have been a bit of blur. I’ve never been busier. I’ve never had so many people want to talk to me about mental health...
Sink or Swim: How the White Star Line’s Most Famous Ship Can Help You and Your Teams
Some years ago, I was chatting with my sister trying to explain how I work with people on their quality of thinking and why I felt it was...
Is Helping People Really Work? My Life After Mida Technologies - updated from the 2017 article
Six years ago this week, I said goodbye to one of my most meaningful business relationships and my long career as an “on the tools”...
Caring for People Costs Nothing
As soon as some people put on their work clothes every morning, it is as if the door to their emotions slams firmly shut. Numbers,...
When Leaders Blow Up: The Amygdala Hijack
Most of us have had days when suddenly the boss totally loses their cool and reacts disproportionately and irrationally to something that...
How Can We Improve Discretionary Effort?
Very few of us are giving 100% of our energy to our work. Most will give maybe 70-80%, but that extra “discretionary effort” to get the...