As of Thursday 16th April, the UK entered an extended lockdown of three weeks, with many people already working from home for over a month. The latest UK lockdown restrictions were announced by Dominic Raab, who has taken a temporary role as the leader of the Conservative party, while Boris Read more…
Technology such as HR software has made huge advances in recent years, with the potential to add efficiency and productivity to the HR department. Recruitment software, or candidate management systems (CMS), in particular, have improved, and mean that the whole recruitment process can be managed online. The candidate journey can Read more…
Now that you’ve got a better idea of what it means to be a freelance copywriter, let’s take a look in some more detail at how to become a copywriter. This advice applies whether you’re just taking your first tentative steps in copywriting, or you’re looking to grow your freelance Read more…
You’ve probably had that conversation before. Someone asks you what you do for a living and you say, “I’m a freelance copywriter.” They scrunch their face, shrug and say, “So you just sit at home all day? Great, want to go for a coffee? I’ve got the day off!” You Read more…
Some are calling this the post-fact era, and we’ve seen just how difficult it can be to tell fact from fiction recently. Events in the UK during the EU referendum campaign, and across the pond in the US presidential elections, have shown that while social media allows us to access Read more…
Recruiting a new employee can be risky and there’s never any certainty that they will live up to expectations. The performance at interview and references are all you initially have to go on, so it is no wonder that many employees fail to impress! Occasionally, we have to deal with Read more…
We all know that there are benefits for businesses who post regular content as part of a social media marketing strategy. However, it can be difficult to work out what content to post. The purpose of posting on social media is to create a buzz about your products or services Read more…
You can easily sit at your desk for 8 hours straight, but that doesn’t guarantee that you will be productive. Productivity is not really about how long you work for, but rather how much work you get done. You can get the same volume of work completed in 3 hours Read more…
If you are applying for jobs, getting an initial screening call but not actually being progressed to the interview stage, it is time to start considering the reasons why you’re not getting job interviews. If your CV has not resulted in a call from the recruiter, a lack of interview Read more…
In this guest post, we look at 5 top tips for managers on what to avoid to stay focused and productive. Every new manager wants to be the most impactful, proactive, hands-on manager there is, however, there is a lot of common mistakes that they make. A lot of these mistakes Read more…