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December 30, 2016

10 life lessons you can apply from UWCB

I recently completed the UWCB #Bath program, with the 8 weeks free training and fighting at glamourous event, as billed, this last 17th, December. This was one of 30+ other similar events happening throughout the country that weekend! I didn’t know anything about it until a female friend signed up for the one in Leicester … along with her Dad! I was certainly impressed and a little bit jealous 🙂 and started reading about UWCB and watching their videos online. I had established that one was also starting very soon in Bath and during that week I kept revisiting the […]
December 27, 2016

Prepare to nail your job search!

So you have drawn the conclusion that it’s time to move job? Are you going to plan your job-search before throwing yourself in at the deep end? Surely you just bang your CV out to job posts that catch your eye, and maybe a few agencies, and see what happens, right? From what I can gather, as somewhat of a recruitment veteran now, this is the default strategy for a majority of ‘candidates’. However, I would argue that your job and more importantly your career is actually a strategically important item. There is potentially a huge upside in getting it […]
December 1, 2016
A busness about to scale-up

Diary of a Recruitment Entrepreneur Part 4 (of 5)

I wouldn’t like to be overly dramatic and describe my recruitment entrepreneur’s year to date as a ‘rollercoaster’ – but, nine months in, it has certainly been a wiggly line! I am guessing that is par for the course though. We all know the intended route to success is from A to B, but we tend to find out that route involves several other letters along the way. Part 1 of my diary covered the leap of faith into the great recruitment unknown, Part 2 was a celebration of the ‘firsts’ of Macstaff and Part 3 was pushing through the […]