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. […]
Tag Archives: Cumbria Recruitment
01
Sep
Sep
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 […]
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The Job Satisfaction Score: Why One Number Out of Ten Tells You So Much
28
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 […]
19
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 […]