This is the ultimate pack for job hunters, guides, templates and thoughts to help you with your job-hunting journey. Especially if you’re a standard job seeker and think, “This isn’t the same as I remember,” you’re right. I’ve been in recruitment for over 21 years, and it has changed a lot. But the basics are still… Read More
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For many years as a 360-degree recruiter, I have been trying to work out the sweet spot of advising clients when they should trust a recruiter to enter their process – and get the person they need. Over those years, I have gathered, maybe the obvious confirmed – A recruitment agency should not be the automatic… Read More
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Recruitment costs are usually judged by the number written on an agency invoice. That makes sense. The fee is visible. It is easy to measure, easy to question and easy to try to avoid. But the cost of leaving an important vacancy open is much harder to see. It is spread across the business through lost… Read More
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Currently avaliable candidate – Senior Design Engineer, in the Worcestershire area, South Midlands, Gloustershire – avaliable immediate – salary to be discussed. Profile Senior Mechanical Design Engineer based in Worcestershire with 30+ years’ experience within heavy engineering, mining equipment and large fabricated machinery environments. Time-served apprentice with strong background in 3D mechanical design, technical drawings, layout… Read More
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Ten years. A whole decade of running a business that started with me sitting at a computer on the first of January, writing the copy for a website I’d already secretly bought years before. Back then, I wasn’t building an empire. I was trying to build something that made sense for me, for clients, for candidates,… Read More
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Every week, another headline laments the “talent shortage” or wonders why qualified candidates are seemingly vanishing into thin air. Businesses are spending thousands on job boards, rewriting descriptions, and scratching their heads over empty application pipelines. They ask: Where are all the good candidates? Why aren’t they applying? Employers desperately need to come to terms with… Read More
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Recruitment is not just about finding candidates. That is the bit everyone sees, but most hiring problems usually start much earlier than that. The role is not fully defined, the salary has not been sense-checked, the interview process may not get to the bottom of things, feedback takes too long, and by the time a decent… Read More
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