As I mentioned we have been hiring recently and one of our new people is starting on Monday – which prompted me to think about the issues of, and the importance of, employee induction. Of course it’s important – and everybody knows that – don’t they? But how well thought out are most inductions, do […]
How recruitment has changed in the last decade
There’s no denying that recruitment in the UK has changed drastically over the past decade (I mean, hasn’t everything?) But how? Technology The area of greatest change has been technology. In 1990 the only technical means of communication between a recruitment agency and an employer would have been via post, telephone, fax or […]
How to Grow Your Business Part One
Hi I don’t know if you, like me, have pondered the question “how to grow your business?” once or twice over the years!! It is a massive subject and we can’t discuss all the various aspects to it today, but one thing I have noticed over the last hmmhmm years I have been in the […]
The Lesson of Loss
I was talking to a friend of mine last night – someone I have known for many years and we talked deep. I mean really deep. And we found some things out about each other that we both had not known before, which shed light upon why we resonate so well with each other and […]
Happy anniversary !
If you had been with me on the 1st May 2001, we would have been sitting in my office having just made a huge and, some would say, ridiculously risky decision which was about to change my life forever. 12 months before this auspicious day, something happened that began a process leading up to that […]