Print and Packaging Recruitment: Improving the Heard
It may be a farming term but it is a concept the packaging industry would do well to embrace. In farming terms it means selling off weaker or poor quality stock and buying better quality to improve the breeding stock.
Recruitment Issues in Packaging
Recruitment Issues in Packaging The boundaries of what constitutes the packaging industry can be difficult to pin down with significant overlap with print and engineering sectors. However whichever way you look at it it’s a big sector. Some estimates place Packaging as the 9th largest manufacturing industry in the UK,…
Getting the Best Out of Your Recruiter
A client recently thanked us for doing a great job. So what you might add. Well, this client wasn’t thanking us for placing a specific candidate but wanted to recognise several years’ worth of work, multiple placements and the part this had played in his company’s success. It made me…
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future. Why are some people easily outsourced, downsized, or freelanced into obscurity, while others have their pick of opportunities? Seth Godin argues that it’s more essential than ever to become indispensable – to…
Body Language
Joe Navaro What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-reading People Outstanding book on body language. Will turn many of your assumptions on their heads and you will be able to pick up on all kinds of signals you never knew were there. Importantly this book is…
Put Your Mindset to Work
James Reed and Paul G. Stoltz Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love. The right mindset can make you three times more likely to get the job you want-and even less likely to lose it later. What does…
Generation Y
Much is talked about Generation Y, those born after 1980, and how employers must rethink their approach to recruitment, job design, management and motivation in order to attract and retain these individuals. Generation Y we are told are different, they are not just internet savvy but internet native. They have…
Assessment Services
Psychometric Testing SHL is the world leader in objective assessment in the workplace. SHL has been studying the science of psychometrics for 25 years. As SHL Partners Mercury are able to carry out both ability assessment and Personality profiling. Carried out at our own Assessment Centre by our in-house Occupational…
Finance Manager
Job Title: Finance Manager Function: Finance Reports to: General Manager/Managing Director Job Purpose: To manage the provision of financial assessments and services to the business unit(s) to enable the company to plan and monitor financial performance, ensuring the provision of accurate and timely information and the application of robust and…
