Blog Articles

  • How to Network UP for Career Growth
    Your next opportunity won’t come from the same old conversations. Learn the four steps to start connecting at new levels with confidence and purpose. Have you ever been stuck on a level of Candy Crush? You try every move you can think of, but nothing works. You’re frustrated, ready to give up, and...
  • How to Talk About Yourself Professionally: Own Your Story, Grow Your Career
    Learning how to talk about yourself professionally is something most people never practise - until the moment you need to do so. Someone asks, "So, what do you do?" and your brain goes oddly blank. You know your work, you have navigated complexity, carried responsibility, and achieved results you...
  • Pre-Employment Candidate Checks: Which to Run and Why They Matter
    Hiring a new employee is an act of trust. You are inviting a person into your business, your team, and in many cases, your clients’ world. Pre-employment checks are not about suspicion, but about making that trust a considered, informed decision rather than a leap of faith.  In a world...
  • The True Cost of a Bad Hire And How To Avoid It
    The true cost of a bad hire is far higher than most SMEs realise. It rarely announces itself upfront. Instead, it accumulates quietly through lost productivity, performance management hours, team friction, and the disruption of having to restart the hiring process. For a growing SME, where every...
  • As artificial intelligence transforms the workplace, your emotional intelligence at work matters more than ever before. For skilled professionals at any stage of their career, technical qualifications will get you in the door, but it's the human element - your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) - that...
  • RecruitMyMom’s Top 10 Online Interview Tips You Should Know
    You've been invited for an interview. Congratulations! We know how much courage and effort it takes to get to this point. These ten online interview tips will help you show your potential employer why you're the right person for the role through a screen. On video, every detail is magnified. Hiring...
  • What Soft Skills Do Employers Want?
    You've polished your CV, your qualifications look impressive, but there is one thing that catches many job seekers off guard: technical skills alone won't seal the deal anymore. Soft skills have become an important factor in employers' decisions. Two candidates with similar experience? The one who...
  • How to Ensure Your CV Hits the Mark: The best CV Format for 2026
    Your CV isn't landing interviews, and you're wondering why. It might not be about your experience at all; sometimes it's simply about how you're presenting it. Recruiters are scanning CVs in seconds, applicant tracking systems (ATS) and AI assistants are filtering applications before anyone even...
  • Does Workplace Culture Beat Benefits For Talent Retention?
    Workplace culture matters more than benefits when organisations want to attract, engage and retain exceptional talent. From RecruitMyMom's perspective, shaped by conversations with thousands of employers and candidates, benefits alone rarely create loyalty. Culture does.    Benefits are easy to...
  • How to Build a Strategic Talent Plan With Flexible Talent
    The real question for growing businesses isn't whether to hire, it's how to build a workforce strategy that underpins sustainable company growth and organisational resilience as change takes place. A strategic talent plan requires combining permanent roles with reliable, trusted, flexible talent to...