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Diversity matters: Is your Team Diverse Enough?
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Diversity matters: Is your Team Diverse Enough?

​Diversity and experiencing inclusion have never been more important to employees.Now more than ever, the top talent in your industry wants to work with companies capable of offering diverse, flexible, and empathetic ...

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6 Undeniable Signs it’s Time to Look for a New Job
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6 Undeniable Signs it’s Time to Look for a New Job

​Naturally, we all go through periods of having exciting projects at work which make us fall in love with our roles again; and times when finding motivation is harder.But if the thought of the end of the weekend and a...

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Resignations and Staff Shortages, What You Need to Know
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Resignations and Staff Shortages, What You Need to Know

​Holding onto your talent is becoming increasingly difficult. Over the last couple of years, changes in the workplace and the rising threat of the pandemic have prompted thousands of employees to reconsider their role...

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10 Interview Questions to Master in Your Interview
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10 Interview Questions to Master in Your Interview

​​How to Prepare for your InterviewPreparation is everything to a great interview experience.The more planning you do, the better equipped you’ll be to handle any questions your interviewer might ask. With that in min...

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5 Easy Ways To Improve Your Interview Confidence
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5 Easy Ways To Improve Your Interview Confidence

​Convincing a hiring manager of your competence in an interview relies heavily on confidence. After you’ve captured the attention of a recruitment team with a compelling cover letterand CV/Resume, the interview is yo...

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6 Hiring Trends Impacting Your Job Search in 2022
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6 Hiring Trends Impacting Your Job Search in 2022

Specialist Recruiting Partners Will Become Consultants Critical to Your Career Success​It is well-documented that when markets move and shift, there is an uptake in consultancy services as different organisations navi...

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A Manager's Guide To Performance Reviews In The Sector
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A Manager's Guide To Performance Reviews In The Sector

Every employer wants to have the ideal high performing team; who wouldn't? The problem is that simply recruiting the best talent doesn't necessarily mean they will be top performers day in and day out.And even if they...

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How to Hire Employees in a Skills-Short Market
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How to Hire Employees in a Skills-Short Market

​Understand YourCandidate Psyche Has ChangedThe truth is the candidate psyche, and consequently, their ideal role and employer wish list has changed. During the last few years, many of us experienced a whole new wor...

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The Ultimate Guide to Counter Offers in The Work place
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The Ultimate Guide to Counter Offers in The Work place

​Counter-offer: The DefinitionWhen it comes to hiring jargon, it's worth defining what we are talking about when we discuss counter-offers.A candidate decides to leave an organisation (we will cover the reasons why...

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Accelerating Your Career in a Post Pandemic World
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Accelerating Your Career in a Post Pandemic World

Your Career In A Post PandemicGreat careers don't begin by accident or accelerate without your application and focus.The current workplace is changing with huge shifts in the global economy, DEI and remote working o...

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How To Build A Resilient Team
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How To Build A Resilient Team

​Defining ResilienceThere are a few different ways to define resilience, from official definitions to our own beliefs about what it means to be a resilient person. The American Psychological Association (2014) defi...

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How to Significantly Improve Customer Experience in Your FMCG Business
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How to Significantly Improve Customer Experience in Your FMCG Business

​What Makes a 'Good' CX?The biggest and most prominent food and drink companies have bigger budgets to improve CX, which tricks other, smaller companies into believing that they have the monopoly of customers.But wh...

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How to Manage Your Food and Drink Organisation Coming Out of Lockdown
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How to Manage Your Food and Drink Organisation Coming Out of Lockdown

​Making Sure People are SafeFirstly, you must ensure that your team, any visitors and customers or clients who may be visiting the workplace, are Covid-safe.The virus hasn't gone away, and as we know, this type of dis...

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Top 6 Strategies for Retaining Quality Talent
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Top 6 Strategies for Retaining Quality Talent

As we are now living in a world that has been changed by the pandemic, your employee retention strategy must be better than ever.A pre-pandemic Retention Report by the Work Institue (2019) found that “one in three wor...

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How to Increase Productivity in Your Business
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How to Increase Productivity in Your Business

All businesses want to improve productivity. But for some organisations, productivity can be an elusive thing.Why do some teams always hit their targets while fall behind? Is it down to specific individuals or certain...

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Recruitment Agency VS Jobcentre: What is the Difference
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Recruitment Agency VS Jobcentre: What is the Difference

​My job applications are unsuccessful, what can I do? At Magpie Recruitment, we believe that a successful recruitment process only occurs if we listen to what our clients need and to what our candidates want. Unfortun...

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How to be Successful in Your New Role
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How to be Successful in Your New Role

​You’ve been offered a new role – congratulations! There are a few things to do now, firstly, to celebrate and inform your current employers of your resignation.The second is to think about how you’re going to make a...

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7 Steps to Take to Improve Diversity in Your Business
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7 Steps to Take to Improve Diversity in Your Business

​Despite a significant focus on diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] from some organisations, a lot of work is still to be done. Not enough companies are taking the necessary actions to champion true diversity and i...

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Should I Leave My Job? How to Know When it's Time to Look for a New Role.
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Should I Leave My Job? How to Know When it's Time to Look for a New Role.

Naturally, we all go through periods of having exciting projects on at work which make us fall in love with our roles again; and times when finding motivation is harder.But if the thought of the end of the weekend and...

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How to Build an Effective Talent Pipeline for Your Organisation
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How to Build an Effective Talent Pipeline for Your Organisation

In our post-Covid world, having a strong talent pipeline is more crucial than ever. And the skills shortage that was present in almost every industry pre-Covid is still threatening organisational growth.When you’re re...

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