Facebook – check us out!

We have a big library of information and help guides which we have produced over the years – mainly for printing in newspapers, magazines and as leaflets.

The beauty of the Internet is that we can make that available at a click of a button – well…mouse.

Check out our Facebook page where we will be uploading our top 25 Workplace No-No's and A-Z Guide to Job Hunting covering everything from actually searching for likely vacancies to your exit interview.

AWR: Impact Assessment

We have stepped up our initiative to help clients introduce the necessary measures to ensure compliance with the Agency Workers’ Regulations – set to be fully implemented this October.

Demand for information about the Regulations – and how they will affect individual businesses – has been high.

Our recruitment partner Karen Dykes has been working closely with our industry body the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) to make sure the information we have is the most up to date possible.

The regulations are far-reaching affecting the pay and some benefits of workers on assignment with the same company for more than 12 weeks. But while they include a lot of detail, there are exclusions too – some of which are still being ironed out.

Through Karen – and our close relationship with the experts at the REC – we have been able to help many businesses understand more about the Regulations.

Now we’re offering to work with each employer to produce an Impact Assessment. This will not only answer specific questions and resolve issues but will help plan each businesses’ strategy for ensuring procedures are place, staff are briefed and compliance is assured. Each assessment will be bespoke and take into account the businesses’ reliance on temporary staff.

The Regulations stipulate that it is, ultimately, the recruitment agency’s job to ensure a worker receives the pay and benefits they are entitled to. But the help of the client is imperative. So joined up thinking is vital to ensure agencies maintain their reputations and businesses remain employers of choice among temporary staff.

Businesses interested in finding out more about our tailor-made Impact Assessment should call us on 01733 319888 or email.

Marketing Director opportunity

A client is looking to fill the kind of role that suggests they, at least, are confident about the future. An international organisation based in the area, the company is looking for a Marketing Director with a £90k salary.

At that level, the requirements are high – and specific. The ideal person for the job will be a natural leader. They will have an MBA, bags of marketing experience and some sales experience too, and preferably a career background in the medical sector.

The remit for the role is wide-ranging covering a multitude of marketing and managerial disciplines. The person who fills the post will be expected to drive and support revenue growth, direct the marketing team, monitor and influence market dynamics, influence global marketing strategy and translate it in line with local market dynamics as well as dealing with internal and external customer liaison.

If you’re interested, or know anyone who might be, please get in touch. Email info@annecorder.co.uk or call me on 01733 319888.

Happy New Year

2011 has arrived. And we’re very much hoping things continue as they did in the run up to Christmas.

Strangely, just as everyone else started slowing down in that last week our phones were ringing off the hook. It was almost as if other businesses were quietening down, freeing up HR staff to make the calls they’d been putting off for a while.

Even on Christmas Eve we were accepting jobs.

That kept us busy in the traditionally quite period between Christmas and New Year and now we’re back to full strength for the New Year and looking forward to getting our teeth stuck in to what 2011 brings.

Here’s to a good 2011 for all of us!