Katrina Collier | Author, Facilitator & Speaker

Energising human connection through The Searchologist & DisruptHR

 

You’ll find my company The Searchologist has two sides that are both focused on my highest values: freedom, speaking, being heard, community and fun!

• The Searchologist focuses on my mission to get all the people who recruit people to treat people better! 
• DisruptHR London and Cambridge are events that give HR a voice.

As an Ambassador for Hope for Justice, both offerings of The Searchologist and my DisruptHR events support the charity, which aims to end modern-day slavery.

 

The Searchologist

The Searchologist was founded to teach HR & recruiters social recruiting & sourcing and I have successfully worked with leading companies around the world and spoken at all the major conferences. In 2018, I pivoted to focus on the problem of candidate engagement because finding people online is easy! Sourcers and recruiters can find candidates but have an issue evoking a response due to the enormous amount of recruitment spam, the transparency created by the Internet that highlights poor candidate experience, and the fight for attention in a world of interruption!

After publishing my first book, The Robot-Proof Recruiter through Kogan Page in August 2019, it was time for a new direction! I entered 2020 on a mission to impact the behaviour of 1000 hiring managers through LDJ Facilitation because I believe that HR & Recruiters understand the importance of candidate experience more than hiring managers do, and it’s time to change that! Throw in a global pandemic, and I launched The Robot-Proof Recruiter Mastermind & Certification in June 2020.

In the quiet of lockdown my mission for the rest of the decade has firmed up: by energising human connection, I aim to inspire 1 million people who recruit people to treat people better!

 

DisruptHR

As a typical “Generation X”, I have been ignored by HR so it is with some irony that I have spent so many years working with HR and discovering they aren’t as bad as I thought! I soon realised that those HR professionals who are breaking rules and improving the world of work aren’t given the opportunity to speak and that a new platform was needed.

After speaking at DisruptHR NYC in 2016, I brought the Disrupt movement across the pond and can’t quite believe what it has become – a platform where people have permission to be themselves and share their ideas. London’s HR community clearly needed something new and refreshing and I am truly awed by it each and every time. In 2019, I brought DisruptHR to Bristol, York, Glasgow and Cambridge. For 2020, I handed Bristol to Lee Burman, and Glasgow to Alexandra Burns & Sandy Wilkie, to concentrate on London, Cambridge, (the first) Newcastle and York. Sadly, Covid bought my plans for events in Newcastle & Leeds to an end but who knows what the future holds! 🤞🏻

 

Why work with The Searchologist?

Your conventional recruitment thinking will be challenged, technology buzzword bingo will be demystified, and I’ll put straight anyone who thinks a robot can do what we do! Instead, I will instil excitement and confidence into HR, recruiters, and sourcers, who will be encouraged to make better use of technology and engage with potential recruits humanely, and I will show your hiring managers why their behaviour makes or breaks talent acquisition.

Cutting through industry hype, I will show you how to put the human front and centre in your recruiting and talent acquisition, how to increase response rates in this candidate-driven market, and how to reduce candidate ghosting.

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