The cost of hiring a new employee is not just the recruitment fee but also hidden costs if the candidates are not ideal. Getting recruitment right first time is the goal because the cost of hiring the wrong person undoubtedly impacts more than the...
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What is the true cost of a bad hire?
25/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
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Want to do your bit for the environment? Stay at home!
25/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
Research from Monster.co.uk suggests that employers letting their staff work from home could ‘significantly’ reduce UK’s CO2 emissions and carbon footprint. How? Doubling the number of home workers would cut CO2 emissions and the number of cars ta...
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A chocolate fuelled but coal-free Easter
24/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
Whilst children across the country were trying to break chocolate egg-eating records, and as the Extinction Rebellion dominated the news, the UK grid managed to break their own record with an unbroken 90 hours without generating electricity from c...
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Stress distress
24/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
With stress related absence on the rise, employers have a legal duty to protect workers from this sometimes-debilitating illness at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it. But what is stress? The HSE* defines stress as ‘the adverse rea...
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Not all Recruitment Consultancies are the same
24/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
The need for a recruitment consultancy may crop up in the course of being responsible for talent management (or indeed being the talent that needs to be hired). If you’re time poor, working in candidate poor markets, or just want someone to do the...
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Boing. Boing. Boing. What to do if you’ve got a “jumpy CV”.
17/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
As recruiters, one of the most common reservations clients have is that the candidate is “too jumpy.” In other words, the person has changed jobs too many times and doesn’t have much longevity in any of them. In today’s job market, the millennia...
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Not so grim up North
16/04/2019 by Emma Hawker
A recent study from TotalJobs did a deep dive into what the North has to offer in terms of working life and career motivators, highlighting the advantages to both employees and employers alike, and if you’re a lifelong Southerner the results may s...