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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...