How to answer “so tell me about yourself?” And so it begins. Weeks of scrolling through job boards and CV advice has led to this blatant misuse of the word ‘chat,’ but you remain unfazed as you’ve already nailed the interview. The casual exchange of small talk passes you off as a human being and…

Temporary work can open up all sorts of opportunities for candidates. We are thrilled when our staff are lucky enough to be given employment contracts by our Clients. It demonstrates how important placing the right candidate is to us. We would like to say well done and thankyou to some of our staff who have…

As a business advisor at Caldew School, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria I work with Cheryl Eastburn who runs the Young Enterprise initiative at the School. We have guided the team of students through the process of initial business idea to actually running their own company over a matter of weeks. This has been challenging for the…

We are always surprised when we are told ‘it’s too expensive to use an employment agency, I can do it myself at a fraction of the cost’. This may be true, however have you actually added up how much that ‘fraction of the cost really is’? I recently had an interesting discussion about this with…