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Searching for a job can be a job in itself. Here are 5 tips for boosting your productivity whilst on the hunt for a new career: 1. To-do lists Planning for tomorrow is one of the most important things that you can do in order to be productive. Today is still fresh in your head, so while it’s fresh jot down where you are now and what needs doing tomorrow. If you leave this un...

As talk of Brexit dominates the business community’s conversations, there has never been a more important time to demonstrate your leadership to what is becoming an increasingly unsettled workforce. The most proactive companies we work with are currently increasing communication with all their staff members to outline any plans to mitigate the risks of Brexit, to improve sta...

Having an open vacancy in your business can represent a giant opportunity cost, or worse if left unfilled. On average, our search assignments take 67 days to reach offer from the date of attending a client briefing, if you add to this the candidate’s notice period; on average another 90 days and you are roughly looking at 6 months before your plans to appoint someone become ...

Getting noticed on LinkedIn can be a bit like being a needle in a haystack, quietly waiting to get found. In the meantime you are either really busy searching for and applying for jobs, or you are too busy in a job which you want to leave to have the time to do anything about it. If this sounds like you, then you should invest a few critical minutes in your LinkedIn profile ...

The best way to improve the performance of your business is to improve the engagement of your staff. Improving staff engagement drives better customer service, increases repeat and referral business, reduces waste and makes it easier and cheaper to attract the brightest talent to help you grow. The International Employee Engagement Survey conducted by Gallup and known as the...

Last month was our 22nd anniversary of being in business. In 1996 I left a moderately well paid job in engineering (at that time I think all jobs in engineering were moderately well paid) to start up a technical recruitment company. Mainly because I could see a real need for a recruitment service that could think like an engineering employer and to be quite frank, my mates a...

I once worked a glorious summer in a factory with no windows, an aggressive production manager and a miserable workforce. My supervisor told me it was character building, to which I replied it was in fact soul destroying! I needed the money to pay for college so I stuck it out to the bitter end and in the process became one of their longer serving shop floor employees, which...

How much would you pay to keep your staff? Do you have a member of staff who makes your heart flutter every time they come near your door with an envelope? Or do you have that sinking feeling when someone asks you to chat in private? Chances are you dread the idea of losing at least some of your people to the competition and will do everything possible to keep them. This mig...

The 7 reasons why a top performing employee will join your business: 1. Offer them the opportunity to expand their knowledge, research has proven this to be the number one reason ambitious performers change jobs. 2. You wouldn’t want to eat the same meal for dinner every day, and Top Performers seek a similarly varied work diet. Look for ways to include challenging objective...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression and the first three minutes of a job interview are the most critical. Even in the logical world of engineering and manufacturing recruitment, most interviewers will form a sub-conscious opinion of you during this time, with the remainder of the interview being spent with their conscious mind feeding this perception wit...