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I am delighted to publish the next article in our series, an interview with Connor Ingram Recruitment Manager at Coretech, a WPP company. Please see Connor’s recruitment story below. We would like to thank Connor for taking the time to contribute to this article and hope you enjoy reading this instalment! 1.What led you into a career in recruitment? Honestly? I had just come...

On the 28th June, Ben Wood, who heads up our Financial Services practice, hosted our most recent HR Director round table event. This was well attended by a number of HR Directors, all of who work for a range of buyside firms across the Financial Services sector. This particular group has been running for over 4 years now and, on this occasion, was held in The Wimborne Room a...

Recruiting in reward and analytics can be challenging due to the lack ot available candidates. Firms like Morgan Stanley who recognise this gap in the market and constantly strive to recruit top talent, have implemented schemes to re-introduce skilled mothers back in to the workplace. We recently facilitated the move ot Assunta Cicalese, who had taken several years out to be...

As I started to compose this article on the ‘Career Cycle of a Recruiter’ it got me thinking about my own journey and why I decided to seek a career in recruitment. Like most people I didn’t really know what I wanted to do after I graduated from university with a degree in Sociology. Whilst I was thinking about what to do next, a family member suggested I look at recruitment...

Recognising that networking groups and learning sessions are often targeted at Heads of and Directors of Reward, Frazer Jones have been keen to offer more insight and discussion to those seeking to develop in their careers, and who have ambitions to reach a very senior level themselves. For the first in this series of events for future leaders in Reward, Alison Jenkins, VP C...

How can volunteering enhance your career? We speak to the creator of the Frazer Jones Social Purpose Agenda, a charity we work with and our valued volunteer from the world of HR. The Scheme Creator Jo Major - Social Purpose Lead, Frazer Jones We wanted to evolve our social responsibility. Last year, having looked at how we could evolve our social responsibility programme and...

Frazer Jones were delighted to welcome Janet Campbell, independent HR Consultant and former HR Director of Ofcom last week to speak to our ‘Future Talent’ group on the subject of Agile Working. It was a brilliant session, which was interactive and informal, where Janet shared her HR career journey, an overview of Ofcom’s strategic internal review and their journey towards Ag...

UK: Matching the overall global trend, excessive workload just beats budget restrictions for HR professionals in the UK, cited as having a strong impact (38%) or moderate impact (41%) by 79% versus a combined score of 77% for budget restrictions. Third is a lack of access to new technology, described as having a strong impact by a quarter (and moderate by another 25%). Ameri...

Perhaps ironically, while technical skills are in high demand, so-called ‘human’ skills are increasingly sought after in an age of technology. They include communication and interpersonal strengths plus other ‘soft skills’ such as team working and cultural competence: the vast majority (88%) of our respondents rate communication and interpersonal skills as strongly important...

Employee retention and recruitment are clearly interlinked: what makes an organisation attractive to existing staff will also appeal to new recruits. When it comes to pipelining/sourcing current and future talent (a strong priority within their talent agenda for 57% of participants), increasing thought is being given to improving candidate experience. Exactly half of our res...