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Talent Acquisition

Why Life Skills Are Also Needed

I have often written about the skills, attributes, and experience that a recruiter should ideally possess to be successful however I wanted to take the opportunity to recommend the other aspects of your life you should also focus on if you want to ensure you achieve all of your potentials. Yes, it is great to…

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Employer Branding

Could You be Doing More to Promote Employee Development?

Research carried out by financial services firm the MPA Group has found that a quarter of office workers invest no time at all in professional development and learning new skills.  For some that will be a personal choice, but for many more, it will be because their company simply doesn’t give them the time or…

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Employer Branding

Prepare Your Organization for The 100 Year Life

Today we’ll be talking with Emma Birchall, Director at Hot Spots Movement. It’s all about preparing your organization to attract and develop talent in a context where people have longer life expectancy than prior generations and technology has changed how we perceive work-life balance. Have a listen to the episode below, keep reading for a…

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Employer Branding

How You Can Get Better at Delegating

Nobody can do everything all by themselves. One of the key skills of any great leader is having the ability to know when to pass your work onto someone else who can get it done, which is, of course, called delegating. Any manager who can’t delegate effectively is going to struggle to get their own…

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Talent Acquisition

Science of Attraction: How to Source and Retain Top Talent in STEM

It’s no secret that the UK is falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to encouraging students to not only study but to pursue a career within some STEM subjects. The skills shortages within the life science and chemistry-specific related roles in the UK cannot be ignored; we must work towards maintaining…