Recent content by charltjr

Can't remember, when we booked the track time did we have to specify a car? If we're bringing a different one than originally intended, does anyone need to be notified?

That is absolutely the right way to use it. Problem is, not enough people do and it makes it so easy for blaggers.

I’m genuinely concerned by the impact. Googling everything was one thing, but at least you had to be able to read and summarise it. Now it seems like way too many people can’t even write an email without AI.

Oh, and we binned off all six candidates that we interviewed. Depressing. I have now added to the job advert “Candidates who primarily use pre-existing solutions, web searches or generative AI to support industry standard products are unlikely to succeed in this role” You just can’t Google...

I mean, it’s not impossible. The office is in Bristol and I’ve no idea who you are IRL…….

Such a good feeling!

Some of the best people I’ve ever worked with had no degrees. We always say degree or relevant experience in industry. As others said, really all you used to be able to say about a degree was that it showed you were somebody who could knuckle down for three years and come out of it with a...

From the lights on it, looks like it’s in economy mode, so the car probably drives like s**t with it on anyway. Needs to be notified to insurance too, it’s not subtle so will jump out at anyone who lifts the bonnet. I’d bin it unless he wants the extra powwwwwer.

I think it’s a lot of things to be honest, the rise of the helicopter parent, everybody knowing their rights but don’t understand that responsibilities come alongside those rights, the Covid generation, people outsourcing their ability to think to Google and now AI, and just a general culture of...

I feel personally attacked.

Do NOT get me started. We have an offshore unit in Bangalore and they are totally incapable of stopping the candidates gen-AI-ing their way through the assessments. It makes it impossible. We’ve had to deploy a tool now, hackerrank I think it is, which monitors for everything like that. Tests...

Totally agree, we have really good staff retention. We’re just coming out of the other side of a messy takeover and merger, but a merger which was actually sensible in that it wasn’t just merging with a direct competitor and then cutting everything. In our case they merged us with a...

Circa £40k depending on experience. Pension contributions matched up to 5%, private healthcare, usual ”bolt on” salary sacrifice benefits if you want them (dental, various other insurances, cycle to work, car through Tusker)

What the hell is going on with trying to recruit high-quality staff these days? We’re following our usual tried and tested method. We get CVs submitted, we screen the CVs, we then do an introductory phone screening assessment, people who pass that come in for a full face-to-face interview and...

You’re going to have a fault claim against you anyway, so I’d just let insurance handle the lot, minimal hassle. the value of the claim is pretty much irrelevant at renewal time unless it’s a biggie.