Blog Featured - Recruitment International

3 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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The pitfalls of age discrimination in the workplace

Encore Personnel director, Pete Taylor, shares his views on the plight of the older worker and misconceptions about the value they can bring to a business. Gone are the days of ...

4 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Could IR35 be the NHS’s Achilles’ heel?

Graham Smith, head of marketing at Curo Talent, explains why the Achilles’ heel to digital reform across the NHS could be tax law, IR35. The technology skills gap is holding the...

4 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Mental health a formidable opponent for the legal sector

Michael Ives, legal recruitment consultant for Acorn Recruitment It’s a topic increasingly seen in the media; prominent public figures such as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ...

5 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Knocking out unconscious bias

Cindy Gunn, HR manager at Encore Personnel It could be putting a woman’s CV to the bottom of the pile because she’s of child-bearing age or dismissing a candidate because they s...

5 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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NHS70: Leaders must prescribe a unified political approach

Jo Sellick, managing director of Sellick Partnership On 5th July, Britain marks 70 years since the establishment of a true national institution, putting the NHS under the global...

6 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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The nuclear skills shortage is imminent

Peter Cornish, director of business development in nuclear, energy, oil & gas at Acorn Recruitment At the dawn of a ‘new nuclear industrial age’, debate has so far tended to foc...

6 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Addressing the ‘productivity challenge’ in recruitment

Redline Group High productivity is a key trait of all great recruiters. In the last few months, a report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) suggested the UK would n...

6 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Business owners warned of Britain’s digital skills gap

Jo Sellick, managing director of Sellick Partnership Growth in the British economy slowed down in the first quarter of 2018 to just 0.1 percent, which is the slowest rate since ...

7 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Attracting and retaining top tech talent in the UK’s competitive landscape

Redline Group Identifying talent to maintain competitiveness is the most important job that an organisation does. Employers must attract and retain the best people, which presen...

8 months ago / Rebecca Wilson

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Clear development opportunities vital for Gen Z

Pavan Arora, head of talent development at Acorn, discusses how this Generation Z might impact employers and what Acorn is doing to ride the wave. Everybody is talking about Gen...