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The Truth About Counter Offers and Why They Often Backfire

Handing in your notice tends to create an interesting reaction few other conversations can do. It’ll usually be a form of shock or concern, and it’ll...

Why January Is Traditionally One of the Busiest Months for Recruitment Conversations

January always feels different compared to the closing months of the previous year. That fourth quarter is pretty intense for many sectors, especially...

The Power of Personal Branding in Recruitment and Property

Personal branding is less of a niche idea these days and more of a central part of how people win trust in modern business. It’s especially true in re...

Movember: Growing Awareness, Starting Conversations, and Supporting Men’s Health

Every November, something pretty subtle but rather powerful happens. Across offices, agencies and worksites, moustaches begin to appear on the faces o...

Is estate agency still a “people buy people” business – or just outdated nostalgia?

For as long as most of us can remember, estate agency has lived by the simple mantra that ‘people buy people’. The idea is that success rests less on...

Burnout in Property Management

Burnout has become a pressing issue in property management, with something of the perfect storm created by rising tenant expectations, heavy workloads...

Five Red Flags Employers Often Miss When Hiring

Hiring can be a difficult process because even with a solid process and the right questions and checks in place, people can still make poor decisions....

Back-Office Support for PAs and EAs

Personal Assistants and Executive Assistants have long been the engines behind high-performing teams, often along with office managers and administrat...

What Today’s Candidates Really Want from Employers

The hiring landscape has shifted, and today’s candidates now hold more power than ever, especially those with in-demand skills. Employers still post l...

How to Future-Proof Your Recruitment Strategy

Recruitment strategies don’t age well, and what worked five years ago often fails today. And what works now might not get you far in two years’...

Why Soft Skills Matter More Than Ever in Hiring

In the past, hiring decisions often hinged on qualifications, technical expertise and years of experience. Those things still count, of course. But em...

What Makes a Company Truly Attractive to Top Candidates?

The best candidates don’t scroll job boards out of boredom. In fact, they’re usually not actively looking for a new job at all. You’ll find them head...

Personal Branding Tips for Jobseekers in a Competitive Market

When jobs are scarce and inboxes overflow with CVs, being good at your job isn’t always enough. The way you present yourself in terms of what people s...

When Should You Start Searching for a New Job?

When your job has started to feel like a never ending loop of the same old routine, it might be time for a change. But when exactly is the perfect mom...

Specialist Headhunters vs Generic Recruiters: Who Secures More Top Talent?

The competitiveness of the job market these days is such that the ability to secure top talent can really make or break your business. This is why org...

Is a Career in Estate Agency Right For You?

Have you thought about getting into estate agency but worried about the long hours, low pay and weekend work you’ve heard about? Well then we have som...

The Art of Crafting Job Descriptions That Attract Top Talent

Talent acquisition has become more competitive in recent years, which means recruiters need to raise their game to attract the best candidates. One ar...

Recruiting Strategies for Niche Markets

Recruiting talent in niche markets such as property or the financial sector presents unique challenges compared to the broader recruitment approach, s...

Finding and Attracting Passive Candidates

The best recruitment agencies won’t just rely on a pool of active job seekers but will also have a network of passive candidates they can call upon. T...

Top recruitment trends poised for 2024

With the weeks flying by, it will be 2024 before we know it. Now is the time for recruiters to start planning and preparing for the year ahead, includ...

How to be the perfect candidate

Being in the jobs’ market isn’t easy and it is natural to worry about how you may measure up against other candidates for a role. While all jobs and a...

The Importance of Learning Culture in Recruitment

Every business and organisation develops its own culture over time, with many leaders purposefully guiding the culture in a particular direction. Some...

Roadmap for Handling Difficult Employees

Any place where humans gather together has the potential for some kind of conflict, and business is no exception. In fact, workplace conflict and disg...

COUNTER OFFERS… Here are 7 counter offer statistics everyone needs to know.

There are a lot of statistics floating about on the internet regarding counter offers and the cost of replacing employees. It can be difficult to find...

How we help candidates interview successfully

When you are selected to attend an interview, it is important to prepare thoroughly and make sure you are ready for every step of the process. At Peop...

A guide to attracting the best talent

Knowing how to attract the best candidates has become more challenging thanks to the UK currently experiencing something of a skills shortage. Traditi...

Practising Recruiter Resilience

The last few years have certainly been interesting for everyone in the recruitment sector, with challenge after challenge arriving to test even the bi...

2023 Recruitment Trends

Towards the end of every year, you always lots of predictions for which trends will dominate the coming year, but many of these are guesses and don’t...

Why prioritising employee wellbeing is important

The prioritisation of employee wellbeing in the workplace has become one of the top priorities for modern and forward-thinking businesses, and for goo...

Top three creative recruitment strategies

Finding the right talent to help your organisation grow presents all recruiters with challenges. Old fashioned methods such as simply posting a job ad...

Maximising Technology in Recruitment

Recruitment relies heavily on interpersonal skills and thus it would seem, on the face of it, that technological advancements in this sector are somew...

A Recruiter’s Role in a Candidate’s Notice Period

Finding the perfect job for a talented candidate is not the only role a recruiter plays in the process. Should the candidate already be in a job that...

Preparing for interviews

Interviewing candidates requires a lot of preparation which will help you evaluate candidates more effectively while demonstrating your company’s valu...

Counter offer: Why not to take it

A counter offer is a response to an initial offer that could be accepted if some amendments are made to it. They can occur during many different kinds...

Diversity and Inclusion in Accountancy Practices – or lack thereof.

A massive topic of both discussion and debate over recent (and not so recent!) times surrounds the diversity and inclusion in accountancy firms, or in...

Covid-19 and Brexit See Finance Vacancies Fall

The Morgan McKinley Spring London Employment Monitor revealed that the double trouble of COVID and Brexit has meant that the financial services sector...

Accountancy Recruitment And Career Moves In 2020?

In accountancy recruitment and life in general it’s more than fair to say that the last few months have been a stressful, weird and bat-sh*t crazy tim...

Branding your business so you can hire well

When was the last time you thought about your brand image? Or, perhaps more importantly, when was the last time you thought about your brand image in...

How would you test a toaster? … Hire like Apple & Tesla

How do the big shots like Tesla, Google, Amazon and Apple, hire a constant stream of talent that maintains their position as untouchable dominators in...

Artificial Intelligence & Exotic Birds

Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand. It's a myth. But they do dig nests for their eggs.

The rise of Temporary hiring during uncertain times

Temporary recruitment is on the rise. Working in recruitment, I have been closely watching the growing demand for temporary staff to...

Why Hiring Managers NEED CVs to be tailored

A CV should be generic, otherwise it falsifies a candidate’s skills and experience, right? Wrong!

7.4 Tips to Ace an Interview

First impressions are so important, they make an impact and ultimately decide whether you get the job or not.

Gender Pay Gap: What it Means for Your Organization?

Almost 50 years since the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, the UK’s gender pay chasm remains gaping. The statistics speak for themselves.

Brexit X Nomatophobia

Brexit (snooze). Given the result and immediate weakening of our beloved currency and FTSE 100, describing the now distant memory referendum by its al...

6 Ways to Better Your Recruitment Strategy

Recruitment is: Attraction, Excitement, Momentum and Retention. It’s also about evolution.

You need to change your recruitment process now

Britain boasts a buoyant employment market. Standing at 76.1%, employment rates are the highest they’ve been since 1971. With unemployment figures con...

Marketing Funnel X Recruitment

To what extent is our industry and the world of HR changing? How well has it adopted latest technologies and trends in order to remain a viable option...

Recruitment X Gender Equality

Back in 2016, several new employment law reforms were introduced by the Government. These reforms changed things for both employers and employees...

Recruitment X Social Media Stalking

How does a hirer know if a candidate is the sort of person they want to employ? Does an interview process really help you get to know both the skil...

Who’d be a Recruiter?

According to a growth report the REC (The Recruitment & Employment Confederation) posted on their site in 2015, it is a good time to work in the recru...

A positive Job Market X NLW

It’s not all doom and gloom out there. Despite what we hear and read, it is encouraging to know that eight in ten employers believe that economic cond...