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March 23 2022 marked two years since the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, told the nation they should stay at home to prevent the spread of Covid-19. It has been a turbulent two years, with multiple lockdowns, rising living costs…
11 Apr 2022
Does flexible working even more than it used to?
Working from home throughout the pandemic might have changed our working habits for good. Twenty years ago, most jobs were full-time, Monday to Friday, worked between the hours of 9am and 5pm, with little flexibility to change this if something…
09 Mar 2022
It’s a spooky time; lots of ghosting…
It’s not Halloween, so apologies for the title. What it is, however, as we’re sure you’re aware, is a very busy time in the field of recruitment. Companies are having to rapidly adapt to business changes, which means positions can…
04 Feb 2022
Are women taking the brunt of the pandemic?
During the last fifty years, at least, companies all over the UK have enjoyed an influx of female workers, across every sector. At the beginning of the pandemic, women even outnumbered men at work. However, when Covid-19 came on the…
As if UK PLC hasn’t suffered enough over the last two years, recent feedback from a number of employers appears to have highlighted another unwanted fallout from the pandemic. We are all aware of the effect the crisis has had…
08 Dec 2021
Our green credentials
COP26 was just a few weeks ago—where the leaders of various countries came together to discuss climate change and viable solutions. Though governments are still talking about the green initiatives they could try, most companies in the private sector have…
08 Nov 2021
So long!
Before you panic that Fast Recruitment Websites are no longer going to sit as the kings of recruitment website design, know that the headline has nothing to do with us as a company, but rather a current issue within the…
04 Oct 2021
Furlough scheme ends with a splash
Having been in operation for more than a year, the furlough scheme largely faded into the background over the summer. Given that many on the scheme had either returned to work at the request of their employers or been let…
08 Sep 2021
Local boost to burgeoning vacancy market
Plans have been approved to complete the first phase of the Sheffield Bar Scheme, which is costing £150mn and which will create a whopping 8,000 in the area once finished. This is great news for Yorkshire, and further evidence of…
04 Aug 2021
The lowdown on passive recruiting
With all the fallout from the pandemic—redundancies, company closures and whole sectors forced to stop trading—it’s a flooded job market at the moment, with a severe lack of opportunities for all the candidates searching for their next positions. So, given…
It appears the days have long gone when a candidate could simply submit their C.V. and covering letter to an agency or hiring executive, before being invited to a half-hour interview and told the next day whether they’d got the…
We all know that the recruiting landscape is changeable and precarious at the moment. Covid and Brexit have taken their toll, and changes in the way we work have also done their best to uproot some people from their comfy…
10 May 2021
Social media is where the jobs are…
That’s what millennials believe. A recent report shows that a whopping 73% of them found their most recent position via social media. Given how much their generation uses their smartphones and the length of time the internet has been in…
07 Apr 2021
Has recruiting become a 24/7 role?
Fluid working has been a staple part of some industries for a while, if they operate 24/7. Until the pandemic hit, it was quite normal for larger supermarkets and manufacturers, for example, to offer a mix of early morning, daytime,…
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