Providing Recruitment Services to Companies of All Sizes

So, you want to be a recruitment consultant. You need to impress the recruiter – let them know that you’ve got what it takes to spot talent in another candidate. What better way to prove this than to show you know how to BE the perfect candidate? When applying for a role, a cover letter

  …and how to break them     1.      Thinking that simply emailing your CV will bag you the job Most employers would like to see that you’ve seriously considered the role you’re applying for, rather than having just uploaded a CV on the off-chance that you’ll be selected. Cure this: Always use a cover

10 reasons it’s stressful being unemployed AKA things we do vs how we feel.   Just absolutely loving Reading and Long Walks in the countryside. My hobbies? Oh yes… isn’t is strange how no one claims to love lazy days, stuffing their face with cheesy puffs or going out getting drunk.        

6 things every jobseeker should own You’ve probably got some of these..        Car/Driving License This isn’t essential, but in many jobs it’s useful. Companies find drivers to be more punctual and also able to to get to places not served well by public transport, such as industrial estates and places such as

If you’re an  Apple user, you won’t be able to apply for vacancies through the Essential site. This is simply due to the fact that Apple won’t allow you to store, and therefore upload, a CV on your device. Here are the options available to you: – Call the branch who’re advertising the vacancy. –

5 simple tweaks to a bin-proof CV In the time it would take you to watch another episode of Jeremy Kyle (yawn)  you could have bin-proofed your CV. How exciting! Get in proper format. Make sure it lands in the recruiters’ inbox as either a word document or PDF file, and contains sections such as:

So you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘It’s easier to get a job when you’ve got a job’ .. but why is that? You weren’t fired Your current employer is a living reference – a sign that you’re worth hiring and keeping on. You haven’t been dismissed and you haven’t walked out or quit so there’s

We are guilty of it from time to time as ours is a busy, reactive and pressured environment. The phone will ring and your priorities will change, a colleague will ask a question and your attention is diverted or a client will make a request that changes the course of the day for the whole

Very often people will confuse zero hours contracts with agency work. Either they have not worked through an agency, or they are uninformed. What is a zero hours contract? A zero hours contract literally means that you are not contracted any minimum hours. However, you are required to be available at any point in the

There following interview questions are so common that you’ll undoubtedly have faced them in the past… but that doesn’t mean they should be taken lightly! Use our advice below to beat the cliché. What is your biggest flaw? This question is so over-used that the usual way of flipping it into something great has become