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Some thoughts on midlife career change and women

6th March 2018 | Career Advice Motivational

Happy 8th March, International Women’s Day! As a women-owned business at YourRecruit Group, we're marking the day by talking to three amazing women, who work in entirely different fields and pursue diverse goals. Regardless of all the differences, Saboohi Famili, Teresa Leyman and Gill Thorpe, all share a prominent value; drive to succeed! With increasingly distant retirement age, midlife women (and men) in the UK have one to two decades of working life in front of them. This fact on its...

Valentine’s Day Competition – Count the Hearts and Win

8th February 2018 | Competitions

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED! The folks here at YourRecruit IT would love to make Valentine's day a little bit more special this year so we have partnered up with our friends at Into the Blue to give you and your partner a gift to remember. How do you win? Count the hearts we have hidden all over both websites and leave a comment on either of our Social Media pages. Alternatively, you can send your answer to headoffice@yourrecruitgroup.com IMPORTANT TIP: When counting the...

Refer a friend and claim up to £250 worth of Amazon Vouchers

27th January 2018 | Job Hunting Motivational Recruiting YourRecruit IT

If you recommend a friend to us, we’ll give you up to £250 in Amazon Vouchers. At YourRecruit Group we’re committed to expanding our network of professionals looking for a new career opportunity. Recommend a friend to YourRecruit Group today and you can claim up to £250 worth of Amazon Vouchers. Please ask your recommendation to send their CV to info@yourrecruitit.com, giving your name as a reference. **Please note, in order to claim your voucher for successfully helping your...

Four Motivational and Heartwarming Movies for Working Parents

1st December 2017 | Motivational

People have been working parents since the beginning of mankind. Whether you were working as a hunter-gatherer, within farming or building, back then, somehow, a working life with children was much simpler! There was no rushing them to school or long commutes to work. I suppose that back then there was no other option than for you to take them with you and get on with it! Now we live in a world where we are expected to work as if we have no children and parent as if we have no job. For...

Five tips to make any job look impressive on your CV

1st November 2017 | Career Advice Job Hunting

As long as you work, your CV should be a live document. Even if you have not changed your company, you will likely need to modify it according to your new skills and experiences. Recruiters and employers cannot afford to read between the lines, so you have only a few seconds to impress them. Below are five pieces of advice for you: Key Skills Add a ‘key skills’ section and put this at the top of your CV. Make them relevant and concise. The mistake a lot of candidates make is to have a...

Why Personal Brand is for everyone and how to manage it

9th October 2017 | Career Advice Job Hunting

What employers want to know about their candidates, hasn't changed as such. They are still interested to see how you stand above other candidates and what qualities you will bring to their business. However, a CV with a list of your skills and experiences is not quite enough anymore. Online Profiles Harmonise your online profiles across the web. It could be your CV in addition to your profile on various job boards, on LinkedIn or any other professional platform. Your CV There was a...

what we do as recruitment consultants and how we can help

29th September 2017 | Recruiting YourRecruit IT

Overview YourRecruit IT recruitment consultants are responsible for attracting candidates and matching them to permanent or contract positions with clients. We work closely with candidates and companies, building relationships in order to gain a better understanding of their recruitment needs and selection process. Sales At YourRecruit IT, we invest a lot of time and effort into bringing new clients on board. This involves attending networking events, lead generation, sales calls and...

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and interview questions

7th September 2017 | Interview Tips

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. As Daniel Goldman’s explains in his book (Emotional Intelligence at work), it is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire. While different employers carry various work cultures and values, a successful employee is strongly skilled in emotional intelligence. Hence, many interview questions are shaped around this...

My best advice to you as a working mum – How to juggle

24th August 2017 | Career Advice Motivational

After working really hard from the day I left college and working my way up through the ranks, I secured a fantastic role that I not only enjoyed but that also paid well (always a bonus). Then at the age of twenty-one, I had my first baby and I became a full-time working mum. My daughter was nine months old when I went back to a job that I loved. So, I decided for her to go to a day nursery. The settling-in days went smoothly and actually enjoyed the company of other children (this made me...

Reasons to prepare for a smooth handover before we leave a job

18th August 2017 | Career Advice Motivational

To me, there is only one reason to prepare for a smooth handover before we leave a job: The legacy of your work and your accomplishments. Your work is your gift, it is personal and it lasts. You may have streamlined processes or improved functionality and these elements are guaranteed to survive. It does not matter that you are on to (hopefully) bigger and brighter things. What matters is your integrity and your professionalism, which are sustained once you...

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