From time to time, Mr PMP throws me suggestions for blog topics.  After 17 years of writing the monthly PMP blog, I can get a bit stumped trying to come up with anything new and quite often, it's a case of writing about how things have changed or evolved over the years.  Fortunately, he is a re…

This week I read an interesting article in the Times.  Long term sick leave is apparently a big problem in the UK.  Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary has appointed Sir Charlie Mayfield (ex chairman of John Lewis) to come up with a plan to stop workers leaving their jobs because of poor h…

I had a CV from a candidate around 6 weeks ago.  We had a few initial emails and several diarised calls failed to happen.  I do a weekly email round up of the latest opportunities that I am working on (let me know if you'd like to receive it!) so I thought, OK, I'll park it there, there'…

It's funny.  My USP as a recruiter working in the marketing and advertising sector used to be that I worked in marketing and advertising before coming into recruitment.  I used to say that I'd have no interest in say, recruiting for train drivers or accountants (and this is still true!).  G…

I was musing what I should cover for my April Blog.  There were a few options (although frankly, everything has been covered before!).     I decided to cover two semi related topics.  Job adverts online - real or fake and then the number of volume of applications that we see highlighted when apply…

I've said before that I am a bit of a Luddite...but with the years come technological advances and whilst some can be life changing, some, not so much. I can't fight them all though and I'm certainly an adopter of some.  ChatGPT and AI are not really that new but we've had a few ins…

One of the biggest complaints that I see on LinkedIn is where prospective job hunters find the lack of salaries accompanying job adverts.  It is also typically one of the first questions that a candidate will ask me when I am talking to them about a new role.    It's usually the number one reas…

Sadly, there were quite a  few redundancies in Q4 2024 - I think that several agencies making cuts decided to do it before Christmas rather than in January - there is never a good time to share such news with employees.    So, as a result of this, my days are spent talking to quite a few people who…

The world has really shifted over the last few years - post pandemic.  But actually also since Tuition fees came into being and going to university became a very real cost.  One of the main factors that I've noticed a shift in is the number of candidates with work experience and specifically ta…