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Is Your Office Good for Your Health? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Have you ever been a victim of work-related stress? Is your office good for your health? This infographic by CIPHR answers some of those questions. Takeaways: 1 in 4 people will suffer from...
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When You Should Tell a Client – You’re FIRED!
The most satisfying scene in The Apprentice occurs when Lord Sugar looks at Dave, the cocky 22 year-old with a 2:2 in Social Marketing from Thames Valley University (who performed very poorly in this...
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How to Perfect the Job Spec: Recruitment’s Secret Weapon
If you work in recruitment, you’ve probably seen thousands of job specs, in all different shapes and sizes. I’ve seen job specs ranging from five sentences, to five pages long. I’ve seen job specs that...
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Why We Must Stop Talking About Hiring “The Best”
I remember receiving a call from a client that I had worked closely with, building their IT team from a single member to a fully functional team. One of the first developers I had placed with them, an...
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How to Find Hidden Jobs with an Easy Google Search
The majority of jobs are now available online to jobseekers everywhere. Employers and recruitment agencies spend a sizeable portion of their budget advertising on job boards and social networks to make...
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better (Surely?)!
…said the hiring recruitment client to the R2R. “LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, internal referral schemes, internal recruiters, my own network, job boards – I do this day in day out, how hard can it be?”...
View ArticleCan Recruiters Work from Home and STILL Be Successful?
I work from home, I employ someone to work from home and I am still (relatively!) successful. So, how does it work for me but not for so many? What is the secret of successful working from home as a...
View ArticleGrads in Non-Grad Roles: The Rise of the GINGO
One of the most striking differences between millennial workers, and their babyboomer/Gen X predecessors, is the massive growth in higher education rates. A mass higher education system is defined as...
View ArticleHow to Create a #WorldCup Dream Team Squad Of Recruiters
The World Cup is upon us and I have a confession to make: I probably won’t be watching or tweeting much about it, apart from when England are playing. I am commonly known as a fair weather fan. So if...
View ArticleWhy A Quitter is Not Necessarily a Failure
I am writing this blog having just returned from my kids’ school sports day where I got roped in…oops I mean I “volunteered” to enter the Mum’s sprint race. I agreed knowing that at least half a dozen...
View ArticleA Recruitment Referendum: A Vote for Independence #indyref
Would you vote “yes” or “no” for independence? Allowing recruiters to run their own P+L desk? We are all glued to our screens at the moment as to whether Scotland will vote in favour of becoming an...
View ArticleWhat Benefits Do Employees Really Want?
A new trend that’s been hitting the workplace in recent years is extreme employment perks. From in-house yoga classes to free lunch, companies in many industries are going above and beyond when it...
View ArticleTaking the Reins: How to Be CEO for the Day
Everyone’s an expert. Given the chance to be CEO, I’d certainly know what to do. There’d be free coffee all round and don’t get me started on the long lunchtimes we should all be having. You, too,...
View ArticleFor Better or Worse – Millennials are the Catalyst for Workplace Evolution
The careers/workplace blogosphere is littered with rants and tirades about the generations at work, much of this content circling around Millennials (or Gen Y, as they are commonly called). It’s...
View ArticleHow to Hire Amazing People
It takes the same time, effort and energy to hire mediocre staff as it does to recruit amazing people, so why not consider these tips to help you find and attract the best people to your organisation....
View ArticleThe Future is Blurry!
I recently did a mini survey of companies to try and determine how clear, or otherwise, they are about their vision and their mission. Interesting exercise I can tell you! A number of things were clear...
View ArticleThe Importance of Cultivating Innovation for Leaders
Innovation means “a new idea, device or method” and the act there of. If you are a leader, you want to encourage innovation. It doesn’t matter what kind of leader you are, whether you lead a team of...
View Article7 Points to Get You Through Your Final Interview Preparation
If you have made it through to the final interview stage and on to the final interview presentation then a soft whisper of a congratulations are in order! By this stage you clearly have the personality...
View ArticleHow to Own Your Mornings [INFOGRAPHIC]
Yawn! Having a good morning can really set a positive tone for the rest of your day. The same can be said for having a rushed and unorganised morning- the day seems to follow suit. Take a look at this...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Recruitment Consultant: An Outsider’s Perspective
Last month I had the opportunity to take part in a training course given to our recruitment consultants. Whilst not a consultant myself, I found the experience to be both fascinating and highly...
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