In 2017, it was reported that late payments were costing the UK economy over £2.5bn a year, with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) finding that the average small business owner spends between 1-2 days chasing invoices each
Regardless of whether you have worked in recruitment for a year or 10 years and more, you won’t have failed to notice that the sector is subject to many regulations and frequent changes in legislation. This can be
The one thing that unites us mere mortals with the likes of Richard Branson and Bill Gates, is time. We all have the same 24 hours in a day but the way in which it is used can
If you’re like most recruitment business leaders, the last few weeks of March and the days leading up to 5th April were beset by frantic reporting and a total commitment to hit that unmissable deadline. And like most
A recent survey by accounting software provider Sage has found that 17% of all payments to UK SMEs were late, and that over 50% expect a negative impact on their company finances as a result. Payment processor BACs
When starting your recruitment business we believe there were two main motivations behind you doing so: to have an agency built in your own vision and to grow that agency to become a key player in your sector.
The start of the new year is always filled with optimism and a resolve among many people. While the debate between economic forecasters continues to rumble as to whether this will be a year of further growth or
As we start 2018, now is the perfect time for some self-analysis on the year gone by. What has worked well, what hasn’t, and what are the next steps needed to enable an agency to go to the
Anyone who has visited the United States will be familiar with home retailer, JC Penney. Founded 115 years ago and with around 1,100 across the country, the company’s founder James Cash Penney once said that “Growth is never
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when any utterance of the word ‘unemployment’ would send a shiver down the spine of a recruiter. Today, it is an altogether different story and when it appears in the