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Attending a job interview can be one of the most stressful challenges that many of us face. It's certainly one of the trickiest parts of the recruitment process, leaving even the most seasoned employees worried.

In this article we'll take a closer look at a few strategies for dealing with any butterflies that you might have, as well as a few wa…

Having recruited for nearly 10 years it is fair to say I am pretty set in my ways. I was trained on the job in a fast pace, hold no prisoner environment in sunny Leeds, UK.

My day was very regimented, there were core hours for business development and candidate networking. You could only take a break at 11am and 4pm for 20 minutes with one hour f…

Needless to say, 2016 has felt like a pretty seismic year for a lot of reasons. We have seen major shifts in the political world with recent election and referendum results and we have lost numerous talented artists from the world of film and music. Personally, these all pale into insignificance compared to the seismic shift in my own circumstances…

Its fair to say that our industry attracts its fair share of sociopaths.  Most of us are nice folk; even tempered and well adjusted.  But then there are those amongst us who, to put it kindly, aren’t quite as balanced.  And sometimes those individuals are actually quite good at recruitment.  And one of the interesting traits of recruitment is that,…

Tales of untethered- part 3

the Architect of Untethered

In my role as People & Performance Director for The Recruitment Company, my eight year journey with the company has been a fascinating one. If you’d asked me 10 years ago whether I’d see myself a decade later, still happily working in an agency environment, the answer would most certainl…