Don’t wait until September to start recruiting – you’ll miss the best choices
Don’t wait until September to start recruiting – you’ll miss the best choices September is one of the busiest…
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AI is making CV screening harder, not easier
AI is making CV screening harder, not easier. Candidates can now produce polished CVs and cover letters in minutes. Well-written,…
The seasonality of business growth and getting it right
Every May Day, Oxford comes alive a little earlier than usual. Choirs sing from Magdalen Tower at sunrise, Morris…
What does a recruiter do?
What do I actually do? Someone said to me the other day: “What do you actually do then? I thought…
Do What You’ve Always Done, and Get What You’ve Always Got
January 2026 Newsletter Do what you’ve always done and you’ll get what you’ve always got! How can you handle recruitment…
27.6% of UK new starters leave within 1st 6 months
Autumn Newsletter Joining the 27.6% Club? The ONS is telling us that across the UK, 27.6% (almost a…
Don’t Wait Until September to Start Recruiting
August Newsletter Don’t wait until September to start recruiting – you’ll miss the pick of the bunch September is…
Are You Ready to Really Recruit?
Are You Ready to Really Recruit? What do I mean by Really Recruit? Recruit with Intention? With a Plan? Up to now,…
Why Getting Recruitment Right has Never Mattered More
April Newsletter Why Getting Recruitment Right Has Never Mattered More With constant changes to UK Employment Law and increasing…
Building a Team? How We Help You Recruit Top Talent
March Newsletter Building a Team? Better People, Better Teams, Better Business: How We Help You Recruit and Retain Top…
Are You and Your Team in Flow?
January Newsletter Are You and Your Team in Flow? In 2012, I was the first UK recruiter to become accredited…
Learning From Your Team and Recruiting For Growth
December Newsletter December Updates from Better People Do What You’ve Always Done and Get What You’ve Always Got! Could you take…
Ikigai – Why Do You Do What You Do?
October Updates from Better People Ikigai – Why do you do what you do? I’ve been lucky this last couple…
Recruitment – Are You in Your Right Mind?
Are you in your Right Mind? Recruitment for Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs know that they need to recruit people if they want…
Talent Dynamics – Are You Working in Flow?
TALENT DYNAMICS Jayne Johnson of Better People Ltd is a fully Accredited Talent Dynamics Flow Consultant, which means that she…
Recruiters Are NOT Part of the Recruitment Process….
Recruiters are Not Really Part of The Recruitment Process……….. I was speaking to an employment lawyer the other day and…
Are You a Confident Recruiter?
Are you a Great Recruiter? Are you recruiting with Certainty? Do you Have a Specific Relevant Recruitment Process – Are…
Think about Recruitment and Your Heart Sinks?
How often do you think about recruiting and your heart sinks? You think about your inbox and all…
The Value of Talent Dynamics Profiling
Working with Talent Dynamics Why is it a Good Idea? Talent Dynamics profiling offers significant value to both individuals and…
No Christmas Cards for You This Year!
No Christmas Cards This Year! We won’t be popping round to our clients with chocolates, or sending clients Christmas cards, …
Talent Dynamics Profiling – £297.00
TALENT DYNAMICS Jayne Johnson of Better People Ltd is a fully Accredited Talent Dynamics Flow Consultant, which means that she…
Are You Ready for the Job Market -1
Are you Job Market Ready? If you are getting out there into the job market – here are some pointers…
Recruiting for the First Time?
Thinking that you might be ready to take on your first employee? Wondering about what you need to do next?…
Is Your Team Productive? Happy? Engaged?
Will Personality Profiling Help? More and more of the businesses I work with are choosing to profile candidates as part…
Recruiting Right Now ? What a Market!!
If you are recruiting right now, you will know how hard the market is. You may attract applicants who…
Recruiting for the First Time – What to Consider
Thinking that you might be ready to take on your first employee? Wondering about what you need to do next?…
National Joke Week this Week
Set me to thinking that we should all be doing what we can to make work fun. What do you…
Got Your Ducks in a Row ?
Hiring/Recruiting Right Now? Got All Your Ducks In A Row? Attracting, finding and recruiting good people at the moment…
Are You An “Attractive” Employer?
Are you an Attractive Employer? Government statistics tell us today that there are 1.29m open vacancies in the UK-…
Too Busy To Recruit?
Too Busy To Recruit? Speaking to businesses this week, I learned that people are too busy to talk to…
Recruiting or Thinking About it?
Recruiting or Thinking About it? As unemployment figures hit a record low, we are all competing for great candidates. Here…
Does your business have a fear of recruiters?
Why don’t businesses want to speak to recruiters? Does your business have a fear of recruiters? We are all so…
Employing people, really isn’t getting any easier is it?
Employing people, really isn’t getting any easier is it? I was reading a debate on a recruiters forum yesterday about…
You will have to bear with me…
You will have to bear with me……… Been told that on a call lately? How many of you have had…
Recruiting in a Skills Shortage? Consider Attitude rather than just Skills
Recruiting in a Skills Shortage? Consider Attitude rather than just Skills In these days of increasing skill shortages, we should…
The Time Bandits – Do you know any of these?
The Time Bandits – Do you know any of these? Do you feel embarrassed or guilty when you waste other…
Interviewing Candidates – Do you know what to say? What to ask?
Do you know what to say? What to ask? Work out what you want to know and ask the questions…
Got a Video Interview/Meeting – Are You Really Ready?
Are you really ready? Having spent the last – almost 3 years, on Zoom or Teams or Google Hangouts having…
Hiring Sales People?
Are You Confident About Hiring Sales People for Your Business? Many owners of growing businesses are shying away from hiring…
The Staff You Are NOT Making Redundant
What to Do for the Staff You Want to Keep I was talking to a friend yesterday who has NOT…
Outsourcing and Still Doing the Work Yourself?
Outsourcing Recruitment and Still Doing the Work Yourself? I recently researched and booked a cat groomer to come and…
Don’t be a Sausage Machine!
Don’t be a Sausage Machine! Don’t Make Your Clients Jump Through Hoops to Fit the Way You Work In…
Tips for Working Through 100s of CVs
Working Through 100s and 100s of CVs? If you are recruiting right now you could be receiving 100’s yes 100’s…
Does Your Recruiter Love You?
Does your Recruiter Love You? 10 Reasons Why You Should Care About How They Feel About You? To make sure…
Is Recruitment Getting Harder?
With at Least 8x More candidates applying for every job, Is Recruitment Getting Harder? (A recent admin job of mine…
Want to Work with Happy Engaged and Motivated People?
Whether you are a business owner or a candidate looking for the next role, people are examining their workplace environments…
Are You Ready for Video?
With the increase in video interviewing, being seen currently, we wanted to reach out to those of you who are…
Recruiting Statistics related to Finding Quality Candidates
Finding Quality Candidates I read some recent articles in Glassdoor and Undercover Recruiter about difficulties experienced by organisations employing and…
Finding The Best Recruiter
Find them and you will find the best people for your team. Do you know what to look for? How…
Attracting Better People for Your Jobs
Attracting Better People to Apply for Your Jobs How many of you have struggled to attract the right people…
How Many CVs Do You Need?
How Many CVs Do You Need? I was at my monthly Extreme Growth Mastermind meeting recently, where I have recruited…
Retention of Staff – What to do to keep them
Got a New Employee ? How Are you Going to Keep Them with You? To retain them? How are you…
Hiring Good Sales People
Thinking of Hiring a Sales Person? Feeling Concerned? Or I could ask “What is stopping you hiring sales people?” Some…
Interviewing? Know what Questions to Ask?
Interviewing Questions or…. How to get under the skin of your candidates and find out what you need to know…
Better People Candidate Charter
Our candidates report a very positive candidate experience when dealing with us here at Better People Ltd- from the…
CV Writing Tips
As a job seeker, your Curriculum Vitae (CV) is one of the most important tools to enable you to get…
Achieving Work Life Balance
Interesting Article from Nisa Chitakasem of Position Ingnition All of us have heard of the term ‘work-life balance’. However,…
Employers Preparing to Interview
Employers Preparing to Interview How are you feeling about interviewing ? Confident prepared and relaxed? Do you know exactly what…
Why Should I work with a professional recruiter?
So you have decided to grow your team to meet growing business demand. How can you keep the time…
Interview Tips
You’ve impressed them with your CV and covering letter, and now you’ve got that all-important interview. But don’t rest on…
Are You Hiring the Right Skills But the Wrong Values?
Noel Rodriguez –Training Manager at Swatch Group Adding a new member to your staff is a complicated business. It can…
Top Skills for Your Business – Part Time Professionals
I was having a one to one with a member of my business network this week and we were talking…
Thinking of Hiring Your First Employee?
Thinking that you might be ready to take on your first employee? Wondering about what you need to do next?…
First Employee Starting Soon?
With who? Based on what? How will success be measured? You don’t want to be in a position to be…
Interviewing? Make your interviews reflect your exact needs
Are you going to be interviewing soon? How are you feeling about it? Confident prepared and relaxed? Sure that you…
Business is Looking Up
This recent spate of Bank Holidays and the little bit of warm weather we have had comes along with the…
Conducting an Effective Interview
So you have some promising candidates on your shortlist, you have sorted out how much you can afford to pay,…
Effective Interviewing
So you have some promising candidates on your shortlist, you have sorted out how much you can afford to pay,…
Business is Looking Up? Needing to Employ Someone for the First Time?
Business is looking up and you need to employ someone to work with you. Haven’t recruited anyone before? – how…
Interview Success Tips for Candidates
I saw this interesting and useful article on how to achieve interview success and thought I could share it. It…
Discrimination on Grounds of Age is Illegal
It seems to me after the week I have had that some people are totally unaware that they mustn’t discriminate…
Are you Getting The Best from Your Recruiter
I wrote this as a 10 minute presentation for a business networking meeting. The audience seemed interested and asked me…
Amazing CV – Phillipe Dubost
French Web Product Managers’ Amazing CV elicits 150 job offers http://phildub.com/
Employers Settle Out of Court
Employers are choosing to settle employee disputes out of court in order to save legal costs, a law expert has…
On a lighter note…..
This brings us all a smile – hope it makes you laugh too! Love his honesty! http://curriculumvitiate.wordpress.com/the-cv/
The First 100 Days
Help your new recruit to hit the ground running. First 100 Days Coaching Programme for Senior Leaders If you are…
No Fault Dismissals – No Smoke Without Firing
Proposed changes to Employment Legislation Recently, Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, set out a raft of proposed changes to employment…
Use of Social Media – Employees Deserve Clear Guidelines
New recruits should be informed clearly, before they start new jobs, and in writing, exactly what the company guidelines are…
Can Your Candidates Write?
Can your candidates write? No seriously! Think how easy it is for someone to get through the standard conversation based…