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Whether you are working from the office, working from home or you have been furloughed, the coronavirus can take its toll on everyone. In this blog post we would like to share some top tips for coping during coronavirus lock down. Maintain Good Relationships Take the time to talk to friends and family. Tell them Read More…
Putting employees on furlough wouldn’t have been an easy decision. It’s hard for you and your business, but it’s hard for your employees too. Here at Point Recruitment we strongly believe that how you treat people now is how you will be remembered when we come out the other end. It is important that employers Read More…
When hiring new employees for your business it can be hard to know how to attract the right candidates. As professional recruitment experts in Huntingdon, we specialise in getting the right candidates for our clients. In this blog post we share just some of our tips to help make your hiring process easier. We are Read More…
There are emerging technologies and changing attitudes all the time. The world is changing and business owners know that they need to keep up with these changes. We recently came across a report from the World Economic Forum. This report predicts that there are five skills that will be in huge demand from employers into Read More…
The biggest complaint from candidates looking for new jobs is the time they have to wait. They apply for a job and then wait ages to hear if the CV had been received. Candidates then have to wait for an interview date, and then wait longer to find out how the interview went, if they Read More…
Traditional interviews are the standard interviews that we have had for years. They are the same questions, format and layout that you had when you were interviewed, and your boss had when they were interviewed. However traditional interviews are failing. Research shows that traditional interviews are failing business owners in three main areas; 63% of Read More…
Job hunters are using social media to find that dream job. In fact 43% of jobseekers in the UK are using Facebook and their friends via this platform to help find their dream job. Meanwhile 22% of job seekers in the UK prefer to leverage LinkedIn networks to find their dream job online. So what Read More…
It is expected that by 2025, 75% of the working population will by millennials. This is the generation of workers that have been entering the workforce since 2000 and like all generations, they are different to the generations before them. The millennial generation are confident and tech savvy. They are concerned about equal right and Read More…
If you have decided that the best way to recruit for your next role is with the help of a recruitment consultant, then this is the blog post for you. Here at Point Recruitment we have over 30 years experience in recruitment. We have shared some of our top tips below, to help you get Read More…
While it is a candidate driven market, it can be easy to presume that is the reason you aren’t attracting the right candidates to your vacancies. However, it could be the job description that is putting the candidates off. A bad job description could be all it takes to put a candidate off your vacancy Read More…
Your future workforce will need candidates from the Generation Z age range. However it is important to note that candidates in this age bracket have different requirements from their employment. In this blog post we have put together some information about what Generation Z candidates are looking for and how you can attract these candidates Read More…
We often speak to business owners that state they do not use recruitment agencies because of the cost. Some business owners feel that recruitment agencies cost too much and therefore it is cheaper to recruit new employees by themselves. However, some of these business owners haven’t considered the risk and the cost of a bad Read More…
Part of recruiting for your business is about attracting talent to your business. Recruitment is no longer advertising a job and choosing the best candidate. Instead recruitment is about attracting talent. There are more and more jobs out there, but less and less candidates. You need to put job adverts out there that attract talent Read More…
When you advertise a new vacancy for your business it can be very easy to get lots of applications from job seekers, but it often not so easy when you are aiming at attracting qualified job seekers to fill your job role or vacancy. In this blog post we would like to share some top Read More…
We have lots of candidates that come into our high street recruitment agency in Huntingdon. They have either seen a job advert in the window that they like, were passing by or have heard of us from the (almost) 25 years that we have been running, from the same office. It got us thinking, why Read More…
Research from CareerBuilder shows that 35% of workers admit to calling in sick in the last year, even when they felt well! Further to this, one in 10 workers admitted to doing so more than 3 times in the last year. 23% of workers said their reason for calling in sick was just because they Read More…
Reports show that the amount of people without a job is currently at the lowest it has been in over 40 years and the unemployment rate is at just 4%. While this is great for the UK and the economy, it does mean it is tougher to get the best talent into your business. British Read More…
New research shows us that if you want more productivity from your employees you need to focus more on flexible working than high pay. While this is a sentiment that has been repeated over many months, the latest person to tell us that we really need to be taking flexible working seriously is Simon Adcock, Read More…
Point Recruitment has been a well-known recruitment agency in Huntingdon for many years. Clients and candidates alike have enjoyed working with us and continue to do so. Yet many people are unsure what a recruitment agency is and what they actually do, so we thought we would create a blog post to talk about exactly Read More…
Hiring a new employee is a big investment for any company. You employ someone with hope that they will stay within your organisation for some time, and that they will continually deliver an excellent standard of work. However, when you hire the wrong candidate this can result in serious damage to the business. You could Read More…