It’s hard for candidates to write a CV; never knowing what to put on it, how to arrange it and what’s relevant can be difficult to sort out.
These things, on the other hand, they’re a little more obvious mistakes that jobseekers should never, ever put on their CV.
Meaningless...
Good culture bias.
A new study of HR workers, employees and managers in the UK has found that over three in five of employees would rather work for a company that had a culture where people were praised and thanked regularly for doing good work, than for a company that paid 10 per cent more but...
What happens to EU citizens currently living in the UK?
EU citizens currently living in the UK need to apply for Settled Status or pre-settled Status. The scheme will open fully by 30 March 2019. The test phase opened on 20 January. Applying during the test phase will involve a fee (which...
Jobs market remains 'robust'
The UK’s job market continues to demonstrate its ‘robust’ nature as new statistics reveal that the unemployment rate has maintained a figure of 3.8% for February to April 2019.
According to the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) labour market figures for...
UK wage growth faster than expected
Wage growth beat market and economist expectations in the three months from February to April. Pay rose by 3.4% compared with a year ago. After taking inflation into account, wage growth was 1.4%, official figures show.
The unemployment rate remained at...
Congratulations Suzanne Marley, (Head of HR, Nikon) on such a great achievement, completed walking 1000 miles for The Fircroft Trust charity today! An inspiration to us...
Against the backdrop of record employment and ongoing Brexit negotiations, employers in London are bearish about hiring, according to research from the ManpowerGroup.
The ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey is based on responses from 2,100 UK employers. It asks whether employers intend to...
Struggling to find a CV that stands out?
Unfortunately, when you’ve worked in recruitment for a while, some candidates CVs can often end up looking like virtual replicas of one another. And much of it simply comes down to an overreliance on the same old stock phrases.
To remind you of what...
More workers than ever before are employed in the UK as upbeat companies show few signs of worry over the state of the economy.
Employment climbed by 37,000 to 31.84m in the three months to December, while unemployment stayed steady at 1.6m - a level which has fallen by almost 100,000 over the...
Work. On average, we spend 7.5 hours a day there. That’s 37.5 hours a week. And that doesn’t include the time we spend getting there and back, or the free time lost to our work-related stress. Maybe you liked your job at first, but now you’re feeling stuck. Or perhaps you thought you’d try...
