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Which Colour Pen Would You Choose?
Which colour pen do you prefer? Ahead of a regional ICAEW awards event that Curtis Recruitment have been asked to sponsor, we have had some branded notebooks and pens delivered. However, due to a mistake with the pen colour, we have ended up with two different pens, one black and the other purple and black…
Read MoreThe Changing Face of Employment
By Paul Phipps The robots are coming, and we’re all doomed! That’s certainly one view of the way in which the world of work is changing, albeit, a somewhat pessimistic outlook. Whilst we may not yet be facing a life of servitude and redundancy at the hands of the machines of labour, mechanisation and digitalisation, technological…
Read MoreShould I Stay or Should I Go?
By Paul Phipps In the modern age, new phrases appear and disappear regularly and that’s especially true within business. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, ‘staycation’ appeared in the English lexicon and in recent weeks, we have been hearing about a ‘stay interview’. In the sphere of HR, exit interviews are well known and…
Read MoreIt’s Our Birthday!
Many Happy Returns July is a special month for Curtis Recruitment – it’s our birthday – and July 31st, 2018 marks three years of successful trading. Along the way there have been highs and lows, gains and losses, long hours and plenty of blood, sweat and tears shed, in the pursuance of providing an exemplary…
Read MoreHow to Make Your CV Work for You
By Paul Phipps The perfect CV is an elusive beast; with conflicting ideas of how it is best achieved, what to include or omit, which format and layout or even whether to include all jobs. If you asked ten recruiters or HR Managers how to write the perfect CV, you may well get eleven answers. …
Read MoreCurtis Recruitment on Money Box Live
By Paul Phipps As an agency specialising in accountancy practice recruitment, we have been experiencing a severe shortage of suitable candidates for our roles and with unemployment running at 4.4%, it is not just our sector that is struggling with the light flow of candidates. On Radio 4’s ‘Money Box Live’ programme yesterday (28th February)…
Read MoreLowball Job Offers – The Consequences
By Paul Phipps It’s a common occurrence; a recruiter arranges an interview, the candidate attends, and it goes well, the client requests a second interview and this goes well too. The candidate likes the company and wants the job and the client can envisage the candidate being an asset to the company. It’s time…
Read MoreUK ban on credit card surcharges could cause rising prices
In our blog last week, we commented on the unintended consequences following the impending ban on surcharges for paying by credit card; with HMRC saying that it would no longer accept payments on personal credit cards after 13th January 2018. So far, it seems that HMRC is alone in taking this stance with many companies…
Read MoreHMRC to Ban Personal Credit Card Payments
It has been a common practice for companies, government departments and official bodies to add a surcharge for credit card payments, but that is set to end in January 2018. The implementation of the EU second Payment Services Directive (PSDII) aims to reform the way credit and debit card payments are made. In light of…
Read MoreA Plea From a Seasoned Recruiter
I am getting rather fed up with the negative and disrespectful comments regarding recruitment consultants that are constantly being disseminated on LinkedIn. Why do people think that it’s acceptable to denigrate an entire industry sector because of a less than perfect personal experience? Most of the time and for most people, the recruitment process results…
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