Being a team player

Do you have personal goals? Do you know what you want out of life? Well first of all – congratulations – you are in the minority.    But watch out – because there is an easy trap to fall into while you are so focused on your end goal.  It is all too easy to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Keeping positive in tough economic times

I am sure that you, like me, have had days, or weeks or even months or years in your business that have felt tough. Whatever the state of the economy there are always ups and downs in business and some things are more challenging than others. Whether it’s losing a client, or a member of […]

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Networking is like Christianity? What?!

A colleague asked me the other day how we get so much of our business without cold calling. I said to her – ‘Well, you see, I think the rules that apply to networking are a bit like Christianity’. She replied ‘Networking is like Christianity? What?!’ Most of my colleagues think I am slightly off […]

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