The Current Jobs Market and Impact on Employee Engagement It’s no secret that the UK jobs market has become increasingly unstable in recent months. With higher employer costs, an unstable economy, redundancies and hiring freezes, the morale and productivity of...
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Are Redundancy Headlines Impacting Employee Confidence?
Are redundancy headlines impacting employee confidence? In the immediate aftermath of the COVID pandemic, redundancy rates in the UK dropped to the lowest levels since records began. At the same time UK vacancy levels soared – peaking at 1.3 million open job...
Coping with Redundancy: What I’ve Learned
With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the number of people coping with redundancy and the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We...
Leadership Lessons from Redundancy: HR Insights
My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there... As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...
Balancing Redundancy Support and Cost Pressures
With 1 in 4 businesses looking at redundancies this year according to CIPD's Labour Market Outlook, HR is under pressure to do more with less in 2025, and redundancy support is becoming an essential service for businesses facing tough decisions. These are two separate...
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic interview question. So how do you answer it? My advice, as with any interview question, is to consider: why is the interviewer is asking me this? Habit might be one reason. This is straight out of the interview...
A Classic Job Interview Question…
The Classic Job Interview Question: What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic job interview question, one of the most common interview questions candidates face. So how do you answer it confidently while aligning with your career goals? Why is...
Is job hopping good or bad?
The world of work and how we approach our careers has changed dramatically, especially in the last few decades years. For my parent’s generation, a job for life was still a thing and moving companies didn’t happen as regularly as it does today. I know when I entered...
How to stay resilient during your job search
Looking for a job takes time and energy. If you’ve been out of work for an extended period it is very easy to lose confidence and motivation. The more resilient you are, the more productive and effective your job search will be. Here are some ways you can help to...
CV or LinkedIn? What’s the most important?
LinkedIn has become an integral part of modern job hunting. It’s a great platform to showcase your skills and experience and lets recruiters find you, giving you access to roles you might not have find otherwise. You can apply for job through it, using the...