Spring - and Ideas - in the Air

March 2026

I’m convinced there’s something about Spring sunshine that generates ideas and opportunities.
A great meeting with Gavin Traylor and Graeme Goulden today in Manchester about how we can take Hike to market.
Amid all the noise about AI ripping up the rulebook for recruitment and destroying career opportunity, Hike is the antidote to the rush to automation and a race to the bottom in candidate selection.
Powered by proprietary and - dare I say it - pretty smart software, Hike combines the best of artificial intelligence’s ability to analyse with the human insights that top recruiters provide. 
Whether it’s a ‘Career Sherpa’ to advise on the best job fit for you - for the long term - or job benchmarking, Hike’s systems are designed to know you almost better than you know yourself.
It’s exciting to see it come to fruition and great work by the team. Spring is in the air and things are starting to blossom and bloom for sure.