Pivoting from being a recruiter to a business consultant

As the recruitment industry changes, the old rules for being successful are becoming increasingly questionable. The rise of automation tools, along with internal recruitment teams taking increasing amounts of low hanging fruit, means that for recruiters wanting to...

Building your brand through content

As more and more businesses adopt content-led marketing, target audiences are becoming increasingly discerning. Salary surveys, which for so long were the signature piece of content for an agency, are becoming passé, especially as new entrants such as glassdoor...

Being creative with compensation

Making sure that employees have the correct compensation remains one of the biggest challenges facing business managers. With the rise of the information era, the millennial generation are better informed than any prior generation as to what constitutes their market...

What KPIs add value?

Key performance indicators are a critical way of measuring business performance, but they can equally be easily misused and create unnecessary friction in the workplace. Given recruiters are typically on a high bonus, low base structure, many would argue most KPIs are...

Streamlining your growth strategy

As headwinds build within the UK economy, recruiters planning for growth face increasingly challenging market conditions. Already Phillip Hammond has warned of investment by businesses in the UK slowing down, with hiring being one facet of that. On the candidate side,...

Growth hacks for start ups

Starting a new business is always a risk. Indeed, it is estimated that 95% of businesses which are created this year will not exist in five years’ time. With that in mind, for anyone thinking of starting a business, the odds are stacked against you making a success of...