F1rst Commercial Recruitment’s blog offers advice and guidance to people looking for or thinking about a new job. There are practical hints and tips that will help you, as well as guidance on how to ensure you go about securing a new job in the best possible way.
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We often think of employers and employees as being on different sides of tug o’war. In the area of hybrid working, since lockdowns have ended, there’s been renewed jostling. On one hand employees want to keep the flexibility of the hybrid model and on the other, employers are encouraging employees back into the workplace. Indeed, […]
Before we’d ever heard of Covid, many of us were always keen to move to a more flexible and hybrid working model. Hybrid working is a mixture of home and office working and is hanging around as the post-pandemic new normal. But now that it’s here for many, are we happy about it? There is […]
With the Great Resignation priming candidates and employers for some seismic shifts in the jobs arena in early 2022, everyone needs to get the lay of the land. For candidates, there are some interesting changes on the horizon. So whether you’ve powered through furlough but now feel secure enough to make a change, it’s time […]
The pandemic, with all its challenges to each of us on a personal level, has definitely been a time for personal reflection. Working intensely from within the walls of your own home, or not being able to do that, has made people really consider the nitty-gritty of their work: do they like it, how important […]
Are you looking for a new job because you feel pressured to get back in the office? Whilst working from home in your yoga pants alongside your faithful hound has its appeal, have you stopped to think about the personal benefits to you of getting back into the office? Office life is changing, working practices […]
It’s the talk of the recruitment town; hybrid working is the buzz phrase that’s lingering in the post-pandemic jobs market. But what does it mean for the job seeker? Given that everyone is telling you that the power lies with the candidate at the moment, does it mean that you can simply ask and you […]
The last month has seen, and the months ahead of us will see, resurgence in workers returning to the office environment. But it’s not a linear line of simply returning to what went before. It feels as if every business is shaping its own new model of working. Some are incrementally increasing office-based days, some […]
Freedom Day has come and gone this week in a subdued haze of continued mask wearing, minimal extra numbers on office commutes, and a ‘pingdemic’ meaning hundreds of thousands having been sent into isolation, rather than released to freedom. It’s certainly not been the relaxed celebration that we originally envisaged (for June), back in the […]
Recent critical data has shown that here in the North we are recovering admirably – in employment terms – from the dire effects of the pandemic, even if we’re still home to some of the dreaded hotspots. We’re ahead of everywhere else in so many ways. However, a problem was brewing before the pandemic even […]
Big changes are happening in recruitment circles: jobs are firing back up again, employers are dusting off their interview questions, and finally career moves can happen once more. However, the landscape has changed. It’s changed in such a way that it’s fair to say that you’re going to have to take a completely fresh approach […]
