Top 10 CV writing tips! | www.earlstreet.co.uk
Here are a few little tips to get your CV out there and looking its best! Presentation Keep it simple, if possible no more than 2 pages of A4 paper, potential employees might not want to sift through pages of paper. Use a template Presentation is key, its worth using a template to choose …
Banking on a great May Day Weekend! | Earlstreet Employment Consultants
May Day bank holiday weekend is almost upon us! Although Summer is not officially until June, the weekend marks the beginning of it. Traditions of May Day (and still celebrated in many places) are dancing around a Maypole and crowning a May queen. There are a few more traditions surrounding these May festivities, many involve floral …
Surprising Recruitment Statistics | Earlstreet Employment Consultant
Thinking of hiring a new member of staff? Here’s some interesting statistics to consider during the recruitment process: On average, every corporate job opening attracts 250 CV’s That’s a lot of CV’s to get through for just one vacancy! On average only 5 or 6 people will make it to the interview stage and then, after …
Interviews With The Stars | Earlstreet Employment Consultants
Have you ever wondered what top bosses and celebrity business people ask their candidates? How they ensure that they get the best people for the job? We have put together a selection of our favourite questions from some very important people. These are the interview questions that will get the most out of interviewees and …
Workplace Pension, value for money? – Earlstreet Employment Consultants
Pension plan Now that pension auto enrolment is here many people (who meet the criteria) are paying 1% of their wages into the scheme, met by another 1% from their employer’s. In 2018 the employee’s contribution will be 3% with the employer contributing 2%. Then 2019 sees a contribution of 5% from the employee and …
Red Nose Day – Earlstreet Employment Consultants
Red Nose Day- Comic Relief Red Nose Day / Comic Relief Red Nose Day or Comic Relief is Friday the 24th of March. The popular day will see fundraising events taking place across the country to help tackle poverty and injustice in the UK and Africa. The 5 issues this Red Nose Day is specifically …
St Patrick’s Day – Earlstreet Employment Consultants
St Patrick’s Day St Patrick’s Day (or the Feast of Saint Patrick) is a cultural and religious celebration of all things Irish, the culture, the music, the dancing and of course some traditional Irish tipple. Ireland is a country that has a population of 7 million but is considered home to 70 million, everyone can be …
Easter in Kent – Earlstreet Employment Consultants
Easter in Kent. With Easter not too far away. Some parents are in a panic about what to do with the children during midterm, let’s not forget the most important part of Easter and what it’s really about… A super-long bank holiday weekend!! In the hope that the weather will hold up, here’s some ideas …
National Employee Appreciation Day | Earlstreet Employment Consultants
National Employee Appreciation Day As it’s National Employee Appreciation Day, we thought we’d outline some reasons why appreciating your employees is so important and offer some fun suggestions on how you can show them! There’s valid reasons that employees should feel appreciated, not feeling valued is the number one reason people leave jobs (78%). When …
March Events, Spring has Sprung – Earlstreet Employment Consultants
Spring has Sprung. With Spring just around the corner we’ll take a look at some events that are coming up, you’d be mad as a March hare to miss them! International Women’s Day 8th of March The Spring annual event aims to ‘help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious …
Working Lunch: Worth The Risk?
February is both National Hot Breakfast Month and National Snack Food Month, not to mention Canned Food Month, Cherry Month, Grapefruit Month, American Pie Month and, Macadamia Nut Month. With the added foodie temptation of Pancake Day and all those Valentine’s Day Chocolates doing the rounds, food will be on everyone’s mind in your workplace this month. With …
Adverse Weather, what is fair when staff can’t get to work
So you have woken up on a work day to find 3 foot of snow on the ground outside, how do you get to work? This will have a big effect on the road networks, public transport provisions and education providers, some or all of which can cause problems when trying to make it into work. …