How often have you heard the phrase ‘you’re a workaholic’? Whether it is your partner saying it to you or you saying it to a friend who constantly cancels due to last-minute work commitments, but is this a real phenomenon? TechTalk statistics show that 75% of people check their work email over the weekend, 54% check emails during their holidays, 6% when at funerals, and 5% when their spouse was in labour! These statistics are…
We are asked this regularly and there is no clear answer as it is dependent upon experience and the specific role applied for, however there are some easy traps to fall in to and common mistakes that we see. Getting the job that you really want could come down to how the information on your…
Having worked in the recruitment industry for over 20 years I have lost count of the amount of times I have said to candidates or my own employees ‘the grass isn’t always greener’. It can be very hard to ignore those headhunt calls promising amazing pay rises or stories from ex-employees about how incredible their…