Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Talking to myself…

    A couple of weeks I was asked to created a talking heads video rather than to do an in person talk and – unusually – I was provided with the topic(s) for the talk. It was only supposed to be five minutes (some of you might have seen me moaning about it on Twitter) and…

  • June 2020

    Huh – turns out I’ve been doing these #monthnotes for a year (May I swapped it out for the 10 weeks post.) Looking back at June 2019 is a reminder of how much has happened in that time. I’d almost forgotten about my failed dalliance as co-CEO. Obviously my brain blocking out the trauma. Also…

  • Recruitment research?

    Recruitment research?

    I really enjoyed Dan Hon’s masterful picking apart of the MIT Media Lab job ad/description for their new Director. It constructively demonstrated that with thought and care the job ad could be crafted to be a force for good, be more inclusive, re-set their mission and change the narrative – all while improving their chances…

  • Managing from a distance

    Managing from a distance

    100 plus days into COVID-19 restrictions and I can confirm I still don’t like working from home. I have no desire of returning to the pre-March status quo – instead I dream of an workspace like the Campaign Monitors space I have lusted over for a decade or even that of Fog Creek from even…

  • Five years of #jukesiejobs

    One Sunday in June 2015 I started tweeting links to jobs that I had spotted that week that I thought were interesting, were related to public service in some way and were ‘digital’. I didn’t have much of a plan but people seemed to like it and I was preoccupied with the problem of getting…