I was reading the newspaper recently and an article on pre-IPO HSS Hire caught my eye. Chris Davies, CEO of HSS Hire commented in “The Times” (http://www.hsshiregroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/HSS_Times_240115.pdf) “I’ve been in many disciplines. I’ve been an operations director, a commercial director and a financial director – and i’m not an accountant. I don’t ever plot or plan it. […]
I was chatting to my father over the weekend about his experiences of job “interviews” in the 1960’s when he first left college. Morose interviewers firing open questions over an imposing oak desk whilst portraying the demeanor of a disinterested headmaster thinking “why on earth should I bother giving you a job?”. This kind of […]
As a specialist recruitment business we are continually asked by clients to recruit highly specialist skill-sets throughout the UK and Europe. The nature of the high technology marketplace is that individual expertise and a collective capability of your people to deliver top quality solutions are the fundamental strengths of all successful businesses. The critical part […]
One of the biggest decisions many professionals take in their career is not just whether to take that great job opportunity, but is it the right thing to do to move lock, stock & barrel to the other part of the country (or continent!) that the new job demands. On one side – limiting career […]
The single biggest reason clients use Wynne Consulting is our ability to find people that aren’t on the open “Job Market”. That means we find people who aren’t applying for Job Advertisements, talking to Recruitment Agencies or using CV Websites. We are seeing genuinely exciting growth in the UK job market at the moment. Over […]
I was reading a great article from Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP on the Chinese economy http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131203090302-237838958-5-lessons-from-china-s-top-100-brands?trk=mta-lnk It’s is an interesting article from a number of angles. The key for us is that many of their most successful businesses are using innovation and technology to drive their growth into 2014. We are in a unique position […]
Many of us love New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps giving up alcohol, getting down the gym or quitting smoking. Psychologically the beginning of a new year stimulates many of us to review our lives, and make decisions and plans to change habits and improve ourselves. Just like New Years resolutions, the Christmas holidays are also a […]
I was chatting to my father over the weekend about his experiences of job “interviews” in the 1960’s when he first left college. Morose interviewers firing open questions over an imposing oak desk whilst portraying the demeanor of a disinterested headmaster thinking “why on earth should I bother giving you a job?”. This kind of […]
We’re all very pleased this week to finally secure a deal for a candidate we have been working with for a number of years. As a very talented external sales professional with 15 years experience he has been looking for a new Sales Director position for over 5 years. As we all know the higher […]
Chatting to one of our most regular clients yesterday really made me think about the issues faced with recruiting high quality people in today’s competitive environment. The major issue is that the vast majority of high performing people don’t ever look for a job on the “open market”, so don’t talk to recruitment agencies, respond […]
