064 | Where have all the good candidates gone? How to solve the recruitment crisis, with Dr Nemo D’Qrill
HR Coffee Time9 Joulu 2022

064 | Where have all the good candidates gone? How to solve the recruitment crisis, with Dr Nemo D’Qrill

If you’re finding recruitment challenging at the moment, you’re not alone. We’re in the midst of what is being described as a ‘recruitment crisis’ with many organisations struggling to fill vacancies and wondering where all the good candidates have gone.

Dr Nemo D’Qrill has an answer to this challenge. They believe that the good candidates haven’t gone anywhere; it’s just that are current recruitment practices aren’t effective enough at finding them. In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Nemo joins Career Coach Fay Wallis to explain how to remove bias from recruitment to discover overlooked talent.


Key Points From This Episode

[01:54] A reminder that The Essential HR Planner is available to buy

[02:58] An introduction to Nemo D’Qrill

[04:01] Nemo shares how their interest in recruitment methods started

[6:51] Fay talks about her experiences of working in recruitment

[08:12] Nemo offers practical tips to remove the bias and making recruitment practices more inclusive

  • Remove names from CVs
  • Use scoring systems during interviews
  • Gender neutral & culturally sensitive job descriptions


[11:25] Nemo explains the assessments their business Sigma Polaris has created that can be used in the recruitment process. The assessments determine core skills, competencies and work preferences and eliminate an average of 29 cases of bias for every hire.


[17:54] Taking the fear out of taking assessments


[21:17] How large organisations have successfully hired by using Sigma Polaris’ technology


[26:12] Nemo shares their book recommendation: The Art of War by Sun Tzu


(Disclosure: this book link is an affiliate link which means Fay will earn a small commission from Amazon if you choose to purchase the book using it)


[28:53] Nemo talks about the book they are writing, which has a working title of, “Gender (de)Polarisation”


[32:50] How to contact Nemo



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