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How to Manage Outplacement in Today’s Job Market

Quick Summary   Redundancies are rising as the UK job market contracts — making early, well-managed outplacement more critical than ever. HR leaders must act now to align restructuring plans with upcoming employment law changes and workforce expectations. Being...

Is Lower Staff Turnover a Good Thing?

Is Lower Staff Turnover a Good Thing? Quick Summary   Falling turnover might look like a win—but it can hide deeper issues, like loss of top performers. Recruitment freezes and blocked progression paths can frustrate your best people, while “corporate prisoners”...

Is Communication Undermining Your Redundancy Process?

Quick Summary   Communication is more than a delivery tactic: it's a strategic lever that protects your culture during restructuring.  Leadership alignment is non-negotiable. A fractured message damages credibility internally and externally.  Delay breeds uncertainty....

How to improve employee retention in 2025?

How to improve talent retention has quietly become one of the toughest challenges for businesses right now. It’s no longer enough to just find good people; you’ve got to find ways to keep them. And in this rapidly changing and uncertain world, that’s not always easy. ...

New Year, New Career

New Year, New Career

Back in my recruitment advertising days, we used to run a sweep stake at the is time of year on how many times we’d see this over-used, cringeworthy headline on job ads. Yet it holds a ring of truth. The Christmas and New Year period is no doubt a period of reflection...

Top 3 exit interview mistakes

Top 3 exit interview mistakes

Exit interviews aren’t often given the focus and attention they’re due.  Much time and effort is attributed to interviewing those staff that wish to join the company and to retaining them once they’re employed.  Yet, often, once that letter of resignation has been...

Our top 3 tips for exit interviews

Our top 3 tips for exit interviews

In today’s economy, skilled employees are the asset that drives business success. In a competitive job market, it’s more important than ever to retain your top talent. A well conducted exit interview can give a wealth of information that can help improve retention and...

Top 3 interview tips

Top 3 interview tips

We spoke to our career coaches and concierges and asked them their top interview tips. From the responses we received we could easily have written an article titled, top 30 tips for a successful interview. However, there were a number of pieces of advice that came up...