Recently our recruitment agency has experienced an incident with a solicitors firm we expect to see in The Law Society Gazette in about 2 years time for lots of dodgy dealings and raids on the client account. This is what happened: The Case Background About 2 years ago we introduced a candidate, a conveyancing solicitor…
We often get asked by PR companies and agencies whether we will accept a guest blog article written for our blog by one of their “expert bloggers”. In 20 years we have not found one suitable article we would accept on our pages as paid content. I always write back to ask how much they…
Help – the boss has asked me to type a transcript of a recording. What do I do? Don’t worry; obtaining a transcript of an audio recording is extremely easy and something that if you are a secretary or PA you really should not be doing. Why? Because to complete a transcript of a recording…
I have to confess that I’m probably as bad as just about everyone else in the world in that I regularly rely on online reviews to determine whether or not I go ahead with a purchase. My particular area for using them is when we are delving through lists from holiday rental companies and need…
Today we had the first review on our company since we moved offices. All our previous reviews have been removed courtesy of a very strange Google requirement that online businesses have a photo of their shop-front showing their company name, but we were very excited to see that someone had been on to Google and…
Google Ads (formerly known as Ad Words) is one of the key stones to the Google empire we think, with ad revenues generating pretty much most of the income that Google makes as a business. Our company has been with Google Ads for many years, and it has always proved to be a useful source…
I have always had an ambition to run a marathon. Every since I was in my early 20s I’ve always wondered whether it was possible for me to just go and run 26 miles without any intensive training, build up or other work. I am now 45 years old and things are starting to ache…
There are a number of ways to check whether a solicitor is who they say they are. Firstly, every solicitor in England and Wales has to have a practising certificate if they are dealing with the general public or, if they are working for a company in house or a local authority, they have to…
The Hot Pad 21st October It’s make or break time. Barry needs to lose copious amounts of weight and quickly. Either that or we have to be very creative with a computer graphics package. Spoken to Barry (our human guinea pig) today. Reminded him that he promised to lose lots of weight very quickly. Barry…
Received unsolicited this morning.. To vote please click the star ratings above. 1 star is for ‘painfully boring’ and 5 star for ‘actually this is quite interesting’. Sellick Partnership Limited, one of the UK’s leading independent recruitment companies, has sold a majority stake to Samsic, one of Europe’s largest soft service providers, it announced today,…