My name is Hung Lee and I am the founder and Managing Director of this company. For the past ten years I have worked as a Recruitment Consultant in the UK technology market and have borne witness to some of the most tumultuous events to hit the staffing sector – Y2K, the dot.com boom, the dot.com crash, the telecoms boom, the telecoms crash, 9/11, Sarbannes Oxley and finally, the financial crisis of 2008/09. Throughout it all the £4 billion turnover recruitment industry has proven remarkably resilient, bouncing back after every downturn to boom again as one of the most important and dynamic sectors in the service economy.

I set up Wise Man Say because I believe that this is all about to change. The mass adoption of Web 2.0 technologies has fundamentally changed the relationship we have with data – and how we use it and share it will transform the way in which recruitment is going to work. The agency business model – largely unchanged for the past 30 years – will finally meet its end through disintermediation between the Job Hunter and the employer.

Wise Man Say is an attempt to answer the question, how are individuals going to find work without the agents? And how are employers going find people without recruitment consultants? In this blog, I will be exploring the tools, techniques and behaviours which I believe will form the bedrock of successful Job Hunting in the Web 2.0 age. I hope you will enjoy reading these posts – whether you are a Job Hunter, an employer or a recruitment agent, your comments and thoughts will be welcome on it. Together, I hope that we will discover more about how the evolving employment market will take shape, and perhaps along the way, help one or two people find the work they are looking for.

Yours sincerely,

Hung Lee