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…

When you think about entrepreneurship, you almost certainly think of brilliant, young, “out of the box” thinkers, who are willing to go out on a limb for their fantastic new idea. The media feeds us a constant stream of these rags to riches stories, and we are captivated by the inspiration and innovation which is…

Entrepreneurship is an interesting concept, with so many variables that determine whether you will or won’t be successful, and the time frame within which success can realistically be expected. These variables are well documented, with limitless resources offering useful but sometimes conflicting advice on what it really takes to build a successful small business. At…

In recent years the term “gig economy” has been showing up with increasing frequency, but the phrase is often left hanging without explaining what it actually is. Essentially, the gig economy refers to any work that is done outside of the confines of traditional models of employment. Anybody who works as a freelancer, a contractor,…