Natasha Foster

Employment Human Resources Recruitment

Does the Early Bird Really Catch the Worm?

Fire up the time machine, rewind four years and you will find an alternative version of me out and about applying for her first recruitment role (younger, enthusiastic-er and with significantly worse hair). Coming from an Insurance background, my experience of full time work was compliance-based, legislation-driven and pretty much…

Natasha FosterMay 4, 2018

Employment Human Resources Recruitment Sourcing

What the Font?

It’s no secret that job-hunting is a tough process. If I had a dollar for every time somebody sighed to me, “Finding a new job is a job in itself” I’d have at least an extra $4 per week. How best to make your application stand out, without coming off…

Natasha FosterApril 13, 2018

Employment Job Boards Recruitment

YUDU You, Girlfriend

Once upon a time, jobs were advertised in the newspaper. If you wanted one, you rang the number listed, or submitted an application by post. The hungry among us would sidestep all of that and front up with CV in hand to say hello to the manager personally, shake hands…

Natasha FosterMarch 22, 2018

Employment Human Resources Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

Be Nice To Your Recruiter

This week, in a moment of sheer frustration I sat at my desk and began penning a poem ‘Today, I hate recruitment.’ Riddled with truisms about clients who engage with all guns blazing then never call back, sourcing woes and candidate behaviour that verges on harassment, it was an angst-ridden…

Natasha FosterMarch 1, 2018

Job Boards Recruitment Sourcing

My Name is Not Natalie

I was born on the 24th of March 1988, christened Natasha Maria Foster and for the next 25 years largely called by that name, or some close variation of. Then I started working in recruitment and suddenly, inexplicably, my name became Natalie. It is still one of my favourite things,…

Natasha FosterFebruary 8, 2018

Employment Human Resources Politics Recruitment

2018: Year of the #BossBitch

‘Girl Power’ was never not a thing for me. I grew up in the ‘90s, obsessing first over Matilda and The Baby-Sitter’s Club (a sassy group of entrepreneurial tweens who probably shouldn’t have been trusted with the level of responsibility they had) before growing up and into John Marsden’s Tomorrow,…

Natasha FosterJanuary 19, 2018

Does the Early Bird Really Catch the Worm?

What the Font?

YUDU You, Girlfriend

Be Nice To Your Recruiter

My Name is Not Natalie

2018: Year of the #BossBitch

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Natasha Foster

Does the Early Bird Really Catch the Worm?

What the Font?

YUDU You, Girlfriend

Be Nice To Your Recruiter

My Name is Not Natalie

2018: Year of the #BossBitch

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