Print and Packaging Recruitment: The Recruitment Iceberg
Great recruiters build deep, long term relationships with clients who use them again and again. Their clients have an understanding of and value the work that goes on behind the scenes during the recruitment process, delivering great quality candidates. Unfortunately, where employers don’t have that understanding or are more used…
Does the packaging Industry Treat Women Equally?
Yes Although it perhaps isn’t always readily apparent. Most sectors of the packaging industry are dominated by a few, very large, players and so there are few high profile positions available. At the next level there are women managing, in some cases multiple, manufacturing sites. However, it remains the case…
Skills and Attitude at Work
I’ve just read an article headlined “Attitude is worth more than skills”. Whilst the catchy headline is patently rubbish – I’ve rather my surgeon was skilled than keen – there is clearly more to successful recruitment than buying a skillset. Thankfully the article, plugging a new book and assessment tool,…
Lying on CVs: Lies, Damn Lies
It seems not a year goes by without a media storm about lying on CVs and job applications. High profile cases such as those seen on TVs ‘The Apprentice’ do little to help. The public is at once outraged and seemingly accepting the “everyone is at it, so a little…
January Blues
Job Vacancies & Recruitment in January The first Monday of the New Year is various known as massive Monday or Mega Monday as the volume of jobseekers soars after the Christmas/New Year break. In print and packaging we have seen a tripling of applications over the holiday period, mostly since…
Packaging Industry risks sabotaging future with redundancies
When times are tough redundancies may be necessary but the packaging industry faces very specific challenges, which mean perhaps redundancy should be a last resort. The first quarter of 2011 saw recruitment reach levels not seen since 2007 and the 2nd quarter is following a similar pattern. However there are…
Recruitment issues in packaging. – Overview
Recruitment Issues 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, turning over…
How much is Sick Note Culture costing you?
The cost of Sick Note Culture… It could be as much as several weeks for pay per employee or 6% of your payroll costs! These are dramatic numbers and set against this background, the Government is about to launch a review into sickness absence with a focus on getting people…
Beware False Economy
The scale of the packaging industry drives many towards preferred supplier lists (PSL’s) and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) where an external supplier effective manages recruitment via a PSL. Without this the size of the organisations can lead to a fragmented approach and spiralling costs. Whilst it is clear that…
Media Summary 2010
Dani Novick / Mercury Featured or quoted: 1. PrintWeek – Better Business feature commission schemes 15th January 2. PrintWeek Website – Better Business feature commission schemes 15th January 3. PrintWeek Website – comment on MP’s report on Train to Gain, 22nd January 4. PrintWeek website – Opinion feature Morale and…
