Top Skills for Your Business – Part Time Professionals

I was having a one to one with a member of my business network this week and we were talking about how hard it is to find good candidates.  The candidates that I  looking for are skilled experienced people with proven ability in their professional careers. We talked about the price of taking on good professionals and how it seems to be a real sticking point for growing businesses “ I need the extra skills and expertise but we can’t afford a full time person” is something I keep hearing at the moment.

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Thinking of Hiring Your First Employee?

Wondering about what you need to do?

Having made the decision that you need to take someone on to work with you in order for your business to grow, you will need to give some thought as to how you are going to do that.

Perhaps you don’t have much experience of recruiting and are wondering where to start.

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First Employee Starting Soon?

With who?  Based on what? How will success be measured?  You don’t want to be in a position to be coming to the end of a probationary period and discover that you don’t really know if things are working out and if you should confirm or extend probation and how to do that. Having all these things in place, at this stage will protect you from difficulties in the future. Read more “First Employee Starting Soon?” →

Interviewing? Make your interviews reflect your exact needs

Are you going to be interviewing soon?

How are you feeling about it? Confident prepared and relaxed? Sure that you are going to get the best candidate for your vacancy?

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Business is Looking Up? Needing to Employ Someone for…

Business is looking up and you need to employ someone to work with you, haven’t recruited anyone before? – how are you going to go about this recruitment?

This recent spate of Bank Holidays and the little bit of warm weather we have had, comes along with the encouraging  news that the UK economy is picking up. My role as a professional recruiter and MD of Better People Ltd, means that I am always talking to business owners and a current them seems to be that they are all looking to recruit someone new into their business in the next 12 months.  Some of them have worked  with agencies before and not been impressed,

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New Minimum Wage Rates

Increase in national minimum wage

The National Minimum Wage increases took effect from 1 October. Read more “New Minimum Wage Rates” →