Recruitment
Recruitment Rewind - The Art of Recruitment
In the whirlwind of modern recruiting where everything must be at the speed of light, have we lost some of the disciplines that made ‘the good old days’ well, exactly that?
Communication is Key: Managing Up, Managing Down
Communication is key in recruitment but why does it sometimes fail after you've started your new job? Here's a guide to help everyone get the best from starting a new job.
5 Ways Recruitment is Like Being in Love
As recruiters we love our job and all that comes with it. We also love all of our clients and candidates (well, most of them) as without them, we can’t do what we love most. So, even though we're no w…
7 Top Tips For Interviewers and Interviewing
The interview process should, in essence, be a simple process of identifying skills and personality traits that match the requirements of your business. But far from it being simple, it can be
Recruiting exclusively or using a number of agencies?
We deal exclusively with a number of clients which, in our opinion and theirs, saves time, money and means we find better people for them. It’s a win-win. But explaining this concept to new clients
Writing a job spec to guarantee a perfect hire
Having been in recruitment for well over 20 years we’ve seen an array of job descriptions and person specifications. Some of them really don’t tell you anything about the job or the type of person
Recruitment Past, Present & Future
We’ve been in recruitment a long, long time. In fact, our business is older than our youngest team member! So we thought it’d be interesting to take a brief look back at recruitment in the 90’s, what…
7 Things Christmas Movies Taught Us About Marketing Recruitment
We can't believe it's December! It's not rare that during the festive period we chuck a Christmas blog or two down your digital chimney. After watching Christmas movies (on repeat) we've drawn some si…
What Do People Think When They Hear 'Recruiter'?
Whilst this is an industry we love, not many people outside of it really know exactly what recruitment is. It's rare you hear a child wishing to become a recruiter when they grow up... People often 'f…
5 Questions A Successful Job Ad Must Answer
We now live in a digital age, and like most things, recruitment processes now begin online. We've come a long way from relying on job listings in the local paper! Here at Network Marketing we see hund…
Tadcaster Careers Event: Route to Recruitment
As an intern and administrative assistant here at Network Marketing there are loads of opportunities to do different things so last week I assisted Jonathan Hirst in representing Network Marketing, at…
Recruitment International Awards Success for Pertemps Network Group
Recruitment International held their annual awards at the Grand Connaught Rooms in Holborn last night (12th November 2014). In the amazing venue which certainly has the wow factor there were 40 plus t…
Shift the Paradigm when Recruiting New Marketing Staff
The PM Forum is the world’s largest and fastest growing community for Professional Services Marketers with over 4,500 members in accounting, law, property, financial services, management consulting, a…
Graduate Consultants: The Beginning
The time has come. Three months, three hundred candidates, just four seats in the office. With desks polished and phones on hold, our fired up and raring to go Graduate Consultants have arrived. It’s…
Network Marketing: The Intern
Alexander Coates takes on an Internship at Network Marketing. Twenty year old Alexander Coates has been here at Network Marketing Towers for 2 weeks doing work experience during his summer holidays fr…
Top 10 Interview Tips for Graduates (Part 2)
In our previous blog we talked about the steps you should take in the build up to your job interview. In this second edition to the 'Top 10 Tips for Graduate Trainee Applicants' we discuss the steps t…
Top 10 Tips for Graduate Trainee Programme Applicants (Part 1)
We’ve recently run our Graduate Recruitment Campaign for 2014 and have really enjoyed meeting some massively enthusiastic and bright characters along the way. Of course, we did a lot of filtering to g…
2014 – The Year of The Graduate
Here at Network Marketing we are in the final stages of our Graduate Recruitment Campaign for our Academy which starts in September 2014. We were comforted to read this article about LinkedIn which l…
Network Marketing Graduate Search 2014
It's started. We're on the hunt for the very best graduates in the UK to join our businesses in Leeds and Manchester. As with all growing companies we are looking for ambitious people. Those of you th…
When did I become the old guy in the office?
When did I become the old guy in the office? Be warned twentysomethings, it sneaks up on you and it doesn’t matter how much you plug yourself into the latest social media channel or listen to obscure…
TheMuse.com - Is the UK crying out for something similar?
Here at Network Marketing Towers we were really impressed with this radically good recruitment website. I guess we're not quite doing it justice by calling it a recruitment website as it is far more t…
All Change for The Employment Tribunals….
I doubt there are many of us who can remember the birth of the Employment Tribunals although if your memory stretches back to 1998, you may recall that they used to be called Industrial Tribunals. The…
Stammering In the Workplace - An Unseen Challenge
I recently went to an IOD event where Ed Balls was scheduled to talk about the Alternative Fiscal Strategy that Labour would have implemented had they been in power during the recession. Now, to say I…
Optimistic news for the marketing recruiting industry.
Whilst we are usually surrounded by doom and gloom and terms like 'bumping along the bottom' are common place in news reviews, it was very refreshing to see some positive news from the BBC online
A Great Recruitment Campaign Taken to the Next Level
Working in recruitment day in day out there are few new campaigns, whether on or off line that cause us to stop and think. This campaign by Africa Health Placements, a social-profit organisation reall…
A 'Very Short Guide' to Avoiding Unfair Dismissal
It is not unusual for a lawyer to be asked ‘You must have had some really interesting cases in your time?’. Well, it very much depends on how interested you are in the bus driver who was sacked for re…
Marketing Recruitment in London - A New Era
Hello London, this is Network Marketing calling. I’ve heard it be said that the 10 year recession hasn’t had the same impact within the M25. Well, I’m not sure that’s quite the case but if the apparen…
Leeds Met Employability Week - How to Turn a No in to a Yes
Yesterday we went over to the Rose Bowl at Leeds Metropolitan University to run a seminar on job seeker skills for graduates. It's a tough time for graduates out there with very few opportunities avai…
Network Marketing Supports Leeds Met Employability Fortnight 2013
Leeds Metropolitan University Employability Fortnight gives fresh graduates new hope as they embark on thee next stages of their lives. With statistics showing on average 9.6% of 2012’s graduates from…
The Ever-turning Wheels of Justice...Employment Law Update
This week’s decision by the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECHR’) in four claims of religious discrimination brought by UK Claimants highlights a number of issues that seem to hinder the ever turnin…
Checking In With ... Jonathan Robinson
Well that was a whirlwind! I've been 'back' with Network Marketing for 3 months already and there are two questions that I'd place in the 'most frequently asked' category. The first is 'why did you co…
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME…
We're keen to keep our marketing clients up to date with the juicy bits of employment law (without all the boring detail) and already work closely with Nick at CCS so asked him if he'd kindly pen a fe…
IKEA Jobs Recruited through...Paper Media
As a passionate lot of marketing and creative recruiters here at Network Marketing towers we're always keeping our eyes and ears out for new and innovative ways of recruiting the right candidates for…
Speed is still 'of the Essence' in the Recruitment Process
When I sold my last house our legal team at the time used a term 'of the essence'. Of course I'd heard it before and probably used it but never appreciated it was a legal term with very strict meanin…
The Apprentice - Did The Best Man Win?
So, did the best man win? We suspect quite a few of you were left stunned on Sunday night as Lord Alan Sugar announced the winner of this years The Apprentice. Tom Pellereau who some may describe as t…
Network Marketing Feature on jobsinPR.co.uk
Always keen to offer sage advice and guidance, Network Marketing were recently asked by the leading PR job board, Jobsinpr.co.uk to provide some advice on interview preparation and interviewing skills…
Digital Recruitment Market Plugged in to Success
Even though we’re not quite at the end of 2010 it‘s been such an amazing year for the digital market in Yorkshire that we thought we’d share our stats on what’s been happening. As it’s also Leeds Digi…
