Cumbria doesn’t always get credit for the scale of what’s happening here economically. But the numbers are hard to ignore. For finance and accounts professionals in particular, it’s a genuinely good time to be looking around. Nuclear and clean energy Cumbria is home to around a third of the UK’s nuclear workforce, and the pipeline […]
Monthly Archives: September 2026
When good candidates are scarce, the instinct is often to offer more money. It’s rarely the fastest or most effective lever available — and it’s usually not the one that makes the difference. Speed wins more often than salary A strong candidate in a tight market isn’t sitting still. A process that takes three weeks […]
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Ask most employees what they think of their annual appraisal and you’ll get a shrug, or worse. Ask most managers and you’ll often hear that it feels like a form-filling exercise you squeeze in between everything else. So are appraisals actually worth doing? Yes — but not in the form most businesses currently run them. […]
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A 60-minute interview sounds like plenty of time. Then you’re twenty minutes in, still working through the CV. The candidate hasn’t said anything you couldn’t have learned from the page in front of you. Good interviews aren’t about fitting more in. They’re about structuring the time so you actually find out what you need to […]