In October 2024, we heard a Labour government’s first Budget Statement since 2010. A historic moment, in that it was also a Budget announced by the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves.
Do you have mentoring programmes set up in your workplace? Especially when employers are recruiting young people, whether they be school leavers or graduates, providing those young recruits with some level of mentoring can help them settle into the workplace quicker and feel like they are part of the team.
We’ve had a few years pass since the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with it, the huge changes many companies had to make in order to stay in operation and keep afloat.
In today's competitive job market, employer branding has become a buzzword that everyone seems to be talking about. And, of course, we have written about the importance of company branding in the past.
When you have gone through a long recruitment drive to find the best young talent for your company, the next obvious key step is to make sure those young people want to stick around and work with you for a while.
You’ve gone through the application process - perhaps lost a few young candidates along the way - and now you are ready to offer the position or positions to the chosen few.
It is essential to assess your hiring metrics so that you know which parts of your recruitment are working well and which areas might need to be tweaked - or abandoned altogether.
