Trusted brand … how often have your heard this? It is usually a promise or an aspiration. A trusted brand is conferred by its customers and clients and often they decide the products and services that give the brand its trusted reputation . In many instances, this is underpinned by the people associated with the…

Are you jaded? Do you keep hearing the promise of a return to better times? Some organisations have seen no set back at all and have grown market share, top line sales and bottom line returns since the onset of the pandemic. Back in March 2020, we suggested that some markets and countries would see…

So the COVID-19 peak is over and ‘we can finally get back to a new normal.’ I am hearing people say this regularly as we begin to venture back into a world that has changed forever. Let’s not forget how many of us have worked from home over many months, with little more interaction than…

There is no doubt the instability the world has experienced during 2020 is unprecedented.  Frankly there is still a fair way to go before we understand what the landscape will look like on the “other side.” The lack of certainty has also meant that most people are reluctant to step out of their comfort zone,…

Double your personal return during Covid? You might say that sounds fanciful given the downturn in the market particularly if your workload has dropped by as much as fifty percent. However, if your return per assignment was doubled you would be doing just as well as you did pre-covid. But how do your double your…

After a number of years working for others, you have started to think about working for yourself. There are several issues to face, not the least of which is your self-belief that all will be ok. Why leave when you have done so well where you are? What about the family? How will I/we pay…

Many changes are happening in the workplace especially for experienced recruiters. Earlier this year we would have been experiencing quite good books of assignments. Now, most of us will have seen some tapering of assignments and many recruiters will be asking “How do I survive the next 12 months?” The priority needs to be you,…

When it comes to attracting and retaining top talent, employers need to understand what employees want most of all from a company. For many years career decisions have been driven largely by salary alone but this is no longer the case. Increasingly employees are seeking organisations which value and promote a healthy work/life balance and…

Innovation – it’s a term that you hear from almost every established company looking for a new way to stay relevant. So what does innovation look like for an established recruitment business? You can look at innovation from a couple of perspectives. If we’re talking about the new-tech tools a recruiter can use to connect…