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Train Your GPT to Sound Like You in 5 Easy Steps

💬 What If You could Train your GPT to actually Sound Like You? So here’s the thing. When I first started using ChatGPT, I wasn’t sure if I loved it or if it was going to take over my job. You know the feeling? One minute you’re blown away by how fast it drafts an…

If all your sourcing tools vanished tomorrow – no LinkedIn Recruiter, no Chrome extensions, no fancy AI plug-ins – would you still know how to find great candidates? ⁉️If Sourcing is a mindset for you, you will be fine! That’s not a trick question. It’s the kind of quiet panic most recruiters have felt at…

No, it’s not just you – 2025 is déjà vu all over again. 🤯 Ghosted clients. Hiring freezes. Execs claiming, “we’ll revisit in Q3.” If it feels like a rerun of 2023’s chaos, that’s because it kind of is. Back in 2023, I hit the perfect storm: training gigs dried up, AI exploded, and I…

Guest on Job Loss, Career Struggles & Recruitment Reinvention Webinar | Life After the Crisis w/ Vanessa Raath

I recently had the honour of joining Alex Cook on his podcast, Life After the Crisis. In Chapter 4 – Job Loss, Career Struggles & Reinvention – we explored what recruitment reinvention truly means in a post-crisis world. The 2023 tech crisis shook the global hiring landscape. As a talent sourcing trainer and keynote speaker…

Guest on Recruiting Trailblazers Podcast with Marcus Edwardes | Leveraging AI to become a Better Recruiter

In this era of rapid digital transformation, we are witnessing the remarkable power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in unlocking the potential of recruiters. By seamlessly integrating AI into the recruitment process, we empower recruiters with valuable tools and insights to make informed decisions and find the perfect fit for organizations and candidates alike. With AI,…

Guest on the Recruiting Trailblazers Podcast | Sourcing Secrets, Better Boolean and Chat GPT Has Arrived!

In this episode, Marcus Edwardes once again speaks with Vanessa Raath, a freelance Sourcer, a global Talent Sourcing Trainer, an international Keynote Speaker, and a wildlife photographer. She recently founded the online educational platform, Vanessa Raath Academy. Listen in as Vanessa shares what sourcers can do to be steps ahead of the competition once the…

DUELING SOURCERS PRO TIP: Vanessa Raath uses ‘inanchor’ for her Boolean searches

In a recent episode of Dueling Sourcers, the educational video series from TechRecruit providing tips, secrets, and hacks for sourcers everywhere, Vanessa Raath and Mark Tortorici provided a number of great ideas to their viewers. Vanessa explained how she just learned about using the Boolean search string term “inanchor” in searches to help find more…

Brainfood Live On Air – Ep158 – Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Career

If you’ve been following the market, the news is looking increasingly grim – record inflation, energy prices, increase taxation, tech hiring freezes, stock market collapse and the possible end of crypto – it’s looking like the good times have ended already. As recruiters, we are often the first to feel the effects of the economy,…

Brainfood Live On Air – Ep157 – How to Organise a Sourcing Jam!

“The true mission of a great Recruiter is to get EVERYONE in the business operating as a Recruiter; after all, they are the ones with the strongest networks of relevant talent! One of the ways to activate the company ‘recruiting muscle’ is to organise a Sourcing Jam – a half or full-day session where a…

Radio Interview: 702 Talk Radio – World of Work: Managing Multiple Careers

It was a wonderful surprise to receive a phone call from South Africa’s Top Talk Radio Station asking if I would be a guest on their show. I was interviewed by the unflappable Clement Manyathela and I shared my thoughts about the pros and cons of people having multiple careers these days. It was an awesome debate with good…

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