Restrictive Covenants

On September 11, 2015, Posted by , In Blog, By , With No Comments

Frequently we see employment contracts with long restrictive covenants that are very general about not working for “competitors” or approaching clients with either no geographic region or specifying the whole country. Typically courts view this kind of generalisation as a restricting the individual’s ability to earn a living, a “restriction…

Appreciating the True Cost of Your Vacancy

Many of the costs of recruitment are easy to quantify, e.g. advertising or agency / consultancy fees, although the focus on these tends to blind many people to the very significant internal, often unaccounted for, costs. We’ll address these in a separate article because the other, almost certainly far more…

Recruitment at Mercury

On December 23, 2014, Posted by , In Blog, By , With No Comments

Mercury Search takes great pride in finding the perfect job for the perfect candidate. We are leading print & packaging recruitment specialists in the UK and we have been running since 2000. Being one of the leading UK recruitment companies, in recent years we have expanded our coverage internationally. Whilst…

Print and Packaging Recruitment: The Recruitment Iceberg

On March 18, 2014, Posted by , In Blog,Resources for Employers, By ,,, , With Comments Off on 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…