February is the month of romance and Valentine’s Day has come and gone – so how do we feel about romance in the workplace? Starting out in the workplace over 20 years ago as a young idealistic 19 year old :0), I told myself that I would never get involved with someone I worked with.
Let’s talk about current unemployment rates. It has been reported in the news recently that in the three months leading up to November, we have had the lowest level of unemployment for more than a decade. The rate is now sitting at 4.8% and this is the lowest it has been since 2005. Employment has
Back in August 2011, Dovetail Recruitment advertised for a local Account Executive role and received an application from Ryan. Although he didn’t seem to have the experience required, he sounded great on the phone and I decided to meet with him. Seeing beyond the CV He interviewed really well and had excellent interpersonal skills and
Yes, it’s true, creative candidates can benefit businesses and I’m here to explain how. In many workplaces, a lot of focus is put on good grades and academic subjects/thinking. While this is clearly a working model for successful work and business, I feel some employers are missing out on those who haven’t strictly adhered to
Looking at the wider issues currently facing marketers in 2016, there are top 5 marketing challenges facing your business – as identified in a Bloomberg Media report earlier this year. The report involved speaking to 26 senior marketers across four continents – who were asked to identify the greatest opportunities and challenge for their business in 2016.
It seems to me that many people are currently in crisis over the fact that we have a weak pound due to the exchange rate plummeting again last week – and I don’t blame them. We are currently in the depths of uncertainty after the result of Brexit and the resignation of the Prime Minister David
Welcome to the first in the series of our Graduate Vs Apprentice blogs! During this series I will be attempting to answer the question that seems to be in every young person’s, parent’s and employer’s heads these days: Which is better, apprenticeships or university? One of the problems I have found personally with the Graduate
So you’ve found your new employee to join your team – make sure you make them feel welcome from the very beginning, before if you can! Here are our top ten tips to help your new starters settle into their new workplace and feel welcome from the very beginning. Don’t do what one company did when
Research carried out by Talent Works has found that generational stereotypes in the workplace may be inaccurate. Talent Works carried out the survey on 1,200 professionals from four commonly defined generations in the workplace – Baby Boomers, Millennials, Gen Y and Gen Z. It indicated contradictory findings to many of the preconceptions attached to these
British employers are becoming more reliant on older works due to the ageing population. Health issues can be influential when it comes to people’s attitudes to remaining in work. Poor health can be a cause for early retirement, likewise, good health can also cause for older workers to retire early and invest time in other
Monster.co.uk has released new research that has revealed a third of employers now offer flexible working schemes. However, despite growing emphasis on flexible working and the additional benefits it can bring to companies, the data has shown over half of employers (56%) do not have schemes in place at all. Research carried out last month,
Over half of employees in the UK feel that in order to get a considerable rise in pay, they must leave their current employer and find work elsewhere. A survey of more than 4,000 employees across the UK, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands found that 47% of employers do not allow employees
Research carried out by ADP has found that UK employees are less proficient in basic literacy and numeracy skills than other European Countries. The research was carried out on over 11,000 people across Europe. 11.6% of UK employees feel they need additional training in numeracy, while 14.3% feel they need to improve their written communication
A new study has found that at least 39% of UK workers will start looking for a new job if they don’t receive a pay rise in the next 12 months causing a cost to the UK of up to £360 billion. Expectations of a salary increase have held steady for a year, with 35%
So yet another employment initiative from our Government. This time in the form of an offer to employees to waive some of their existing employment rights in exchange for shares in their employers’ business. But is this really an incentive for the majority of employees in the majority of businesses? Especially the small to
The Changing Employment Market How things change in the employment industry! Some twelve months ago it was very much a candidate led market in this area with unemployment as low as 1.5%. Now we are reading ever more frequently of redundancies across many aspects of local industry. Out of economic necessity, companies are looking to
