Kim Seeling Smith

I spent more than 15 years as a recruitment consultant. In that time I read hundreds of thousands of CVs. That’s not a figure of speech. Hundreds of thousands. And I’ll be honest with you: a lot of it was soul-destroying. Most CVs aren’t written well. They’re hard to read, badly structured, and they bury

Last Sunday morning I found myself on my back patio, coffee in hand, Mount Elliot in the distance. And I’m working. I’ve got a big presentation tomorrow and had carved out 1/2 day to customise it for my client – but it only took about an hour. Because AI. I found myself with 3 hours

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Are We Sleepwalking Into a Jobs Crisis? What Joe Hockey’s Warning Means for Your Career (Watch my Today Show segment in the clip above — then read on for the full conversation.) The Today Show emailed me yesterday – could I come on this morning to make sense of a number that’s hard to ignore:

Everyone’s talking about the technology. But I’ve watched enough transitions to know: the tech is the easy part. The hard part is whether your people actually adopt it, whether your best people stay through the disruption, and whether your leaders can still lead when the ground won’t stop moving. Three things. None of them technical.

Something shifted in Australia a few months ago. It’s like the whole country woke up one morning, looked at AI, and said: “Right — I need to pay attention to this.” And honestly? It’s fantastic to watch. I’ve been writing Everyday AI almost every week for about a year now. We’ve covered a lot of

I was on the Today Show last Saturday talking about exactly that – and the numbers might surprise you. According to the The Australian Financial Review‘s Best Places to Work awards in 2026 Purpose remains one of the top 3 factors for best places to work. And both LinkedIn and Gartner‘s research show that over

This is the final post in my Future-Proofed Talent Model series, following the infographic above Last week I told you to fish where they swim, not where it’s convenient. This week’s post is about using the right bait. How do you make sure they don’t scroll past your job ad (if they even read it).

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I am all about Claude these days except when it comes to generating images. A few weeks ago, ChatGPT dropped a new image generator – and it’s outstanding, better than its old image generator and even better than Nano Banana. I use it to

This woman changed my life in 1994. I was an absolutely miserable accountant, failing at every job I’d had, when I called my friend Deb Bennett. At that time, Deb was managing a region for Robert Half. I had known Deb for about four years because we served on the board of a not-for-profit together.