Is it doom and gloom for the jobs market?? 13/08/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Defence, Employment, Engineering, Job, Recruitment, Surrey.Tags: Engineering, recruitment agencies, technical recruiters, technical recruitment
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A recent CIPD survey has stated that the jobs market will stall as the demand for public sector jobs falls with 36% of them looking to lose staff. Posted on the BBC news website this all looks like doom and gloom and unfortunately when someone is being made redundant their radar for negative stories like this is on high alert.
So its times like these that we need some good news to instil confidence back into our job seekers.
For us here working in the private sector we are finding lots of reasons to be positive as we have some excellent roles available. Part of the reason for this is that we work across a range of robust sectors such as defence & aerospace, pharmaceutical, aviation, nuclear, rail and building services and have found that they have (and continue to be) reasonably stable.
So in the vein of reassurance here are a couple of hot (if only the same could be said of the weather!) jobs… (more…)
How to resign 14/06/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Employment, Job, Recruitment.Tags: candidates, employees
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We recently wrote a piece for Jobsite, the recruitment job board on ‘How to resign’. In our job as recruitment consultants we spend a lot of our time helping candidates find jobs and giving them advice about interview techniques but what candidates also need is guidance on the best practice when resigning. The article can be found in full here, meanwhile here’s a summary of our top tips when considering resigning:
- Never hand in your notice without a formal offer of a new job in writing.
- Agree a starting date and any contract negotiations before you tell your current employer you are leaving.
- Pick your moment – arrange a private meeting with your manager to tell them and whilst it may not be the best time to tell them on the morning of a major client meeting don’t keep putting it off. It has to be done and if you wait and wait you are more likely to cause yourself problems with a delay in your notice period beginning. (more…)
Interview with a difference 09/06/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in Employment, Job, Recruitment, Uncategorized.Tags: candidates, employees, interview questions, recruitment agencies, technical recruiters
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A recent survey by SHL has found that almost half (49%) of UK candidates have a negative perception of an organisation following an unsuccessful job application. The areas that can often leave the candidate feeling like they didn’t get proper treatment range from:
- candidate not made to feel welcome on arriving at employer’s premises or even poor attitude/behaviours witnessed sloppy interview process – unstructured and lack of competency in interviewing skills
- an uninspiring interviewer – ineffective selling of the job and/or the employer’s value proposition
So that got me thinking, how can recruitment agencies help improve perception?? (more…)
