In recruitment, we come across more interview styles than you can shake a candidate at. Some useful, some painful and some so complicated that you wonder whether anyone still remembers the job. You need to find out whether the person can do the work, what support they might need and whether the opportunity makes sense to… Read More
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Being a small business– there isn’t much I can’t do compared to my larger brothers and sisters of the recruitment industry. The agency recruitment world is vast, there is nearly 24,000 agencies in the UK, an industry worth £35.1 Billion – To be fair most of them are SME sized. So who do you pick to work… 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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Getting to offer stage takes work. You have reviewed applications, found time to interview and decided somebody is worth bringing into the business. Then they say no. It is tempting to put that down to salary and move on. Sometimes it is salary. Sometimes the candidate has seen something during the process that your offer cannot… Read More
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Our personal social media, and our public social media are getting very close together, so much so – we may need to be careful. If you are a heavy user of social media, here are my thoughts!
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There is no shortage of recruitment agencies telling you they can fill your job. That is the easy bit. Finding out which one understands the work, can reach the right people and will be useful when the search gets difficult takes a little more thought. I run a small recruitment business. Being small does not automatically… Read More
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