Recruitment

2025: Is Recruitment (Taking) Risks Again?

In 2025, recruitment is evolving significantly, driven by technological advances, economic changes, and shifting societal trends. Companies are adapting to a labor market showing signs of mild deceleration, with an unemployment rate estimated at 7.6% by INSEE. Despite this, optimism…

Trends & Innovation

When AI Steps Into Recruitment

In your recruitment process, blessed be AI, which promises to optimize your work and help you save time and improve efficiency—both in drafting precise job descriptions and candidate communications, and in refining search criteria through algorithms and analyzing received CVs.…

A Practical Guide for Recruiters

During the recruitment process, all managers and executives ask themselves the same questions: Does this candidate truly fit the position they’re applying for? What could they bring to my team or company? Indeed, in a rapidly changing job market, beyond…

Recruitment: When Doubt Lingers, How to Make the Right Call?

Due to economic uncertainty caused by inflation and a tense international environment, companies are increasingly reluctant and selective in their hiring practices, and hesitant in their recruitment processes when it comes to selecting THE right candidate. All managers are haunted…

Leadership & Management

Leadership is Dead, Long Live Leadership!?

Gone are the days of “old-school” leadership! The vertical kind, that flows invariably from top to bottom, driven by individuals with inflated egos and strong narcissistic tendencies, using management techniques learned in business schools. This approach has been outdated for…

Leadership & Management

Is There a Leadership Style to Avoid?

When it comes to leadership, the trend is moving toward participative styles, which place strong emphasis on employee well-being (remember Richard Branson and his famous “Take care of your employees, and they’ll take care of your customers”), transformational leadership, which…

Trends & Innovation

AI: What’s Next in 2025?

The number of AI job offers is increasing at a rate 3.5 times faster than overall recruitment offers. Artificial Intelligence and Work: An Inevitable Shared Future Artificial Intelligence already impacts the world of work, employment, and organizations, and will do…

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Staying the Course Through the Storm

    The more the context shifts—the more turbulent the waters—the more we must hold tight to the course we’ve set. And above all, never deviate from it. In practice, how does this work? Frame your thinking. Conducting an objective…

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Should We Be Worried?

  How are you? We hope well, because the mood among French people this back-to-school season is optimistic. Indeed, a sign of a “Paris Olympics effect,” and despite strong political uncertainties, nearly four out of ten French people (39%) indicate…

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Disconnecting Isn’t Just a Summer Thing…

The right to disconnect is an important element of quality of life at work. Managing work effectively today requires rethinking work organization, as well as the manager’s role and competencies. Why is it so difficult to disconnect? Many employees maintain…

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In Search of the Impossible Balance?

    In one month, we will have spent more time caressing our smartphone screen than our loved one in a lifetime; every week we check our phone 1,050 times versus 25 times eating, and in a lifetime we spend…

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Disconnect: invest in yourself…and others

    In an era of “total digitalization,” where hyperconnectivity invades our professional lives and spills over into our personal lives, the “right to disconnect” was enshrined in law as early as 2016 to create necessary protections for employee health.…