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Equality is no longer an optional extra or about being on the right side of history. Diversity on a board brings extensive business benefits and boosts economic success”, Belinda Phipps, Chair of The Fawcett Society Boardroom diversity has long been a talking point. With women accounting for a mere 6.4% of executive roles at FTSE 250 firms in 2018, and...

We can broadly divide empathy into “affective” and ‘’cognitive’’: the first referring to the sensations and feelings we get in response to others’ emotions; the latter to our ability to identify and understand emotions and predict actions. It’s easy to see how both can play a big role in recruitment. Highly empathic recruiters have a natural advantage when it comes

After travelling South America for three months, I came to the sad conclusion that I was no longer at university and thus had no purpose in life. For approximately one week, this was delightful. The next week I was back at my google search, this time I stumbled across recruitment. I really liked the sound of being paid for how hard I worked and I liked that the work was based on building relationships with clients and candidates.

June has been a hugely successful month across the Recruitment Entrepreneur portfolio, here we share ten of our recent successes.

As the summer sun beat down upon King George’s Park, the Shufflers prepared themselves for a late kick off at 8:20pm. Though weary from a long day’s hard work, the Shufflers remained resilient; an admirable effort by the squad considering the number of players that were unable to take part: Venatrix still on tour in Boston, the Beeken Reeves gents and GKR members notably missed as well.

The red mist began to descend and a delicate touch was seemingly lost on Walter James’s new boy George “Bruiser” Watson, as he floored an extremely verbal female opponent, an incident later described by the referee as “exceptional” and “fully deserved”. The first half closed out with promise of a comeback from the Shufflers as Herve De Klerck, channeling his footballing flair from Lille U18s, proudly dived to score a try which would leave the score at a fair 4 – 2.

They can bring opportunity for ‘change agents’ to lead integration of cultures and teams, spark activity across the relevant industry sector and create a ‘healthy’ level of uncertainty amongst employees across both organisations. The latter, often leads to conversations with some of the most talented executives and other professionals in the market – a welcome addition to the working week.