Salary transparency is no longer a nice-to-have talking point — it’s about to become a legal requirement. Ask most employers today why they leave the salary off a job advert, and the answer is rarely “we don’t believe in transparency.” It’s more often “we’d rather negotiate” or “we don’t want our own staff comparing notes.” […]
Category Archives: Employer Advice
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Oct
Oct
Ask most employers what a bad hire costs. They’ll usually name the salary they paid before someone left. The real number is a lot higher. It stays mostly invisible until you go looking for it. The headline figures CIPD research puts the minimum cost of a failed junior hire at £8,000–£12,000. That figure counts recruitment […]
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 […]
07
Sep
Sep
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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The Job Satisfaction Score: Why One Number Out of Ten Tells You So Much
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Aug
Aug
Every candidate who registers with us is asked the same simple question. Out of ten, how satisfied are you in your current job? In fact, it takes ten seconds to answer. It’s one of the most useful pieces of information we collect. It’s not really about the number A satisfaction score is never just about […]
24
Aug
Aug
Most employers assume people leave for more money. Most of the time, that’s not really what’s going on — it’s just the easiest reason to give on the way out. As a recruiter, I get to hear the version candidates don’t always say to their current employer, and it tells a very different story. What […]
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Aug
Aug
Ask most employers what candidates want and you’ll hear “more money” before anything else. Ask the candidates themselves — which, as a recruiter, I do every single day — and money is rarely the whole story. It’s often not even top of the list. Over the years of registering candidates across Cumbria, the North and […]
01
Aug
Aug
Running proper CV fraud checks isn’t optional anymore, especially in finance and accounting roles, where you’re trusting someone with real money and real risk. When someone’s CV is the thing convincing you to hand them the keys to your ledgers, your payroll, or your client money, a padded qualification or a quietly rewritten job title […]