Geoff Smart: Who?: The A Method For Hiring
Provides a clear, step-by-step hiring framework (using scorecards and structured interviews) to minimise costly hiring errors, perfect for small firms seeking a systematic approach to secure high-performing candidates.
Mark Murphy: Hiring for Attitude
Equips employers with actionable strategies to craft behavioural and situational interview questions that uncover a candidate’s core attitudes, values, and problem-solving approaches. This ensures alignment with your company’s culture and mission—critical for small businesses where a single misaligned hire can disrupt team dynamics, but the right mindset fuels resilience and growth.
Lou Adler: Hire With Your Head
Advocates shifting focus from traditional CV-driven recruitment (e.g., qualifications, job titles) to assessing a candidate’s ability to deliver measurable results. By prioritising performance-based criteria—like problem-solving skills and track records of overcoming challenges—the book helps smaller businesses identify hires who can drive tangible outcomes, align with strategic goals, and thrive in dynamic roles, boosting retention through purposeful, future-focused hiring.

Hiring for Culture: The Secret to a World Class eNPS Score with Tim Bowers from HaloPSA
Halo is a homegrown, thriving software company that has achieved remarkable success entirely on its own terms—without investors, formal business plans, or cash flow forecasting. Notably, Halo has attained the prestigious status of a Purebred Unicorn, becoming the first privately owned company to reach a valuation of $1 billion without any external funding. In this video, Tim Bowers (CEO) shares insights into the HaloWay—the company’s unique approach to hiring and talent acquisition.

Using Marketing To Attract Top Talent
In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave Parry and Richard Buckle discuss how businesses can use marketing as part of their recruitment process to attract top talent. The episode focusses on reviewing our own recruitment process, the benefits of creating content for your job applicants and how you can use the recruitment process to communicate your company vision.

Is the UK Facing a Recruitment Shift?
In this episode of The SME Growth Podcast, Dave and Rich sit down to discuss the changing landscape of the UK job market. Are SMEs reluctant to recruit? How do SMEs navigate candidates with multiple offers?

How much should I pay my team? UK startup salaries revealed
SeedLegals’ guide to UK startup salaries outlines compensation trends for founders and employees, covering cash vs. equity, role-based benchmarks, and how funding stage impacts pay.

Attracting and retaining the right talent
McKinsey’s article discusses how companies can attract and retain talent by adapting to workforce trends like flexibility, purpose, and career growth, offering data-backed strategies for employers.
Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals
Adam Grant explains how to hire innovators by focusing on problem-solving skills and unconventional thinking in interviews, rather than just experience. He shares tactics to identify candidates who drive change.

Everything you need to win at hiring.