Recruitment and talent acquisition can be daunting, not to mention a huge drain on time, budget and resources. In 2018 successfully hiring the best people is not as simple as offering the best compensation and letting your reputation do the rest. Here, we outline some factors that can impede or enhance your recruiting success, and…
DetailsMay 25th has passed but businesses all over the EU are still scrambling to become ‘GDPR compliant’. If your business depends on email marketing, whether it be in the form of newsletters or larger scale campaigns, then ask yourself this question: should you be scrambling too? GDPR is a reaction to the growth in the…
DetailsGDPR is upon us: if the consequences of not using data transparently weren’t already blindingly clear thanks to the flood of emails you’ve probably been getting about it, the recent media frenzy around the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story has brought the subject home with stark clarity. No matter your business size, sector or function, the new…
DetailsIf you’ve been sitting under a rock for the last few years, you may not have heard about ‘growth hacking’. It’s a phrase coined by serial entrepreneur and angel investor Sean Ellis in 2010, after he used it to rapidly grow LogMeIn, Eventbrite and Dropbox. Each of those companies are now worth billions of dollars.…
DetailsThere comes a time in every business’s life where it’s necessary to expand. When it’s time to focus on new revenue opportunities. Increased demand on you and your employees means hiring new staff…or does it? Hiring a virtual PA can be a smarter, more profitable move that can actually help grow the business and bring…
DetailsIn the US it has led to #timesup – a movement supported by the National Women’s Law Center which now claims to have over 200 volunteer lawyers and a $20-million subsidiary to support lower-income women seeking justice for sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. #metoo has even inspired movements started by men, aimed at…
DetailsIf there’s one thing we’ve learnt from our clients and their businesses, it’s never to cut corners when it comes to talent. It sounds like a cliché but only because it’s true: if you want to be the best you need to hire the best team. Choosing to use a recruitment agency to find the…
DetailsMany of the skills we develop in life are unconsciously fostered business skills. However, once we enter the world of work, our new surroundings can confuse our instincts, placing otherwise normal behaviours into the context of the “professional.” This distinction can throw us off, putting unnecessary pressure on a situation as we try our best…
DetailsSelling the benefits of green energy is reassuringly easy. Following President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, the leaders of France, Germany and Italy refused his assertion that the deal could be ‘renegotiated’, pushing through the original deal in spite of American withdrawal. Undeterred, Merkel’s spokesman Steffan Seibert tweeted: “now more…
DetailsIn 2016, over $26.7 billion was lost to credit card fraud, with up to 46% of Americans being affected in the past 5 years. Not only this, but more than 976 million data records were lost or stolen during data breaches last year, with the business sector accounting for 45% of this figure. With statistics…
DetailsIn a recent article by The Guardian, a study was cited examining the jobs most at risk of automation. Conducted by Drs. Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, the paper concluded that jobs such as loan officers, taxi drivers and telemarketers were most at risk of automation, whilst musicians, physicians and psychologists were the least at…
DetailsThe snap election this year marked, for many, another torrential shift in the political landscape of Britain. What was labelled by commentators as a tactical move for Theresa May’s cabinet brought about a surge of support for the opposition, as droves of previously unengaged citizens voiced support for Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour party manifesto.…
DetailsRecruitment consultants and agencies don’t always have the best reputation. Have you ever been contacted by a recruiter for a job that doesn’t suit your skillset? Or bombarded with inappropriate CVs for a position you are seeking to fill? Unfortunately, if you haven’t had a negative experience yourself, you probably know someone who has. Finding…
DetailsAnyone producing content of any kind has likely encountered a ‘wall’ at some point in their life – a moment of impasse at which all creative capacity seems to abandon them and they are left feeling frustrated and useless. For writers, this is conventionally called ‘writer’s block’, and whilst in some cases it can last…
DetailsSociety offer us opportunities throughout our lives, often, in the form of new challenges, and daunting as they may be, we must meet them head on if we are to thrive. This paradigm of the professional world is no different, from the time we get our first job to the point where we might consider…
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