Welcome to Undercover Recruiter. If you’re somewhere in the middle of your working career, striving to move ahead but feeling like there are things you don’t know about how to do that, you’re in the right place.

My entire career – about 25 years and counting – has been spent working with people in the process of making a job or career change. I’ve worked as a ‘headhunter’, recruiting people with a wide variety of backgrounds and qualifications for companies who paid me to find them. I’ve been a hiring manager at a VP level on the ‘inside’, devoting my time to finding the right people for my company and getting them in the door. I’ve led as CEO of a division of a multinational organization,  building a team from the ground up. I worked briefly in a career counselling role, helping people prepare themselves for a job or career search, and very quickly learned that most of the resources available are either out of touch or out of date, or both. Read More