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Earning a living wage – UK minimum wage

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Our Basingstoke recruitment agency saw our very first Work Experience Student recently, courtesy of Basingstoke Consortium.  One of the tasks we set him was to research the National Minimum Wage & the Living Wage and to write a blog.  It’s very insightful for a 15 year old student with little experience of the working world.[…..]

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Not so Great Expectations – part 2

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Last week we had a guest blogger – Josh Andrews.  He was our first work experience student.  He talked about how daunting it had been, coming to a company and recruitment agency where he knew no-one and didn’t know what to expect. Well,  let me tell you – we were just as nervous.  Would we[…..]

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Not So Great Expectations – part 1

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Although it was a last minute arrangement, my work experience placement at Wote Street People, a recruitment agency in Basingstoke, has been excellent all round. Not only was I kept busy constantly, which got me doing lots of different things, I was welcomed into the office by the friendly workers present there by all manners[…..]

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08 Feb 2019
Candidate Resources
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Candidates keep falling through? Don’t make your plan B a second thought

  In recruitment, as in life, things rarely work out as expected. The news reminds us daily that it’s actually wise to expect the unexpected. For example, you’ve got to wonder if there’s a teeny weeny bit of Theresa May’s brain that wishes she had pre-prepared a plan B for how Brexit is unfolding… We[…..]

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03 Jan 2019
Interview Process
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Kaia Vincent
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Honesty is the best policy

Recruitment has always been an exciting industry.  There’s nothing quite like the buzz of helping someone make their next career move.  Knowing that you have been a part of helping people achieve the challenge, the promotion, the pay increase, or the work/life balance they need, is immensely satisfying. The current climate is definitely in the[…..]

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19 Dec 2018
Candidate Resources
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Kaia Vincent
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87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work – are you one of them?

We were as shocked as you when we read this headline. But, yes, a recent Gallup survey highlighted a worrying statistic from the worldwide workplace; 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work. It would appear that from full-time workers in Frankfurt, to shift-workers in Shanghai, to those in part time work in Basingstoke,[…..]

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07 Dec 2018
Duty of Care
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Simply having a wonderful Christmas time? Festivities at work, unwrapped

As a recruitment agency in Basingstoke, we love to meet up with other local businesses to build relationships and discuss current topics that affect us all. During our latest peer group discussion, the conversation soon turned towards the issues that can arise at Christmas… Professional party-goers Work Christmas parties are the ideal opportunity to celebrate[…..]

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30 Nov 2018
Candidate Resources
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Keeping up with Google

Who can remember life before Google?! Once upon a time, if you were looking for a job in Basingstoke you’d go to the yell.com website to search for a phone number…or maybe even scour the Basingstoke Gazette, community noticeboard, Thomson directory or Yellow Pages. These days, Google is so ubiquitous it’s basically become a verb.[…..]