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Switching from contract to perm – why, exactly?
May 13th
The contract market within the engineering market has been notoriously lucrative in former years. Contractors, while forfeiting their right to benefits like company cars, pensions and healthcare, earned considerably higher rates than their permanent counterparts and the flexibility from the labour market that they facilitated was welcomed by hiring managers.
Contractors were appointed for a project until their skills were no longer required and released with a typical notice period of just a week – when the contractor could look towards their next role or take the family away over the school summer holidays! More >
Four reasons that companies prefer permanent staff
Mar 17th
In a market that traditionally favours the flexibility of a contract workforce, there’s been a notable increase in permanent placements as a result of ever-tightening budgets and the need to accurately forecast hiring spend.
What can help in a situation where you could be expected to consider a permanent role, perhaps having spent years working on a contract basis, is to understand the advantages that a permanent workforce can offer hiring companies. Here are four key benefits: More >
Six tips for managing counter offers
Mar 5th
When you’ve been to the effort of updating and tailoring your CV or resume, have attended interviews, second interviews and, in many cases, a telephone interview before that, it’s not surprising that if your eventual resignation is met with a counter offer from your current employer, it can lead to confusion about the best course of action.
Here are six top tips for handling a counter offer: More >
Flexibility for a successful job search
Feb 17th
We’ve all heard about unemployment rates, hiring freezes and redundancies and few of us are under any illusion that finding work will be a breeze. Wherever you’re working, whatever role you do; if you’re looking for a new job, you’ll face stiff competition and a tough selection process as you battle against other candidates for that role.
There are ways that you can increase your appeal to employers and one quality in particular that can have a profound affect on your job search success is flexibility: flexibility with your salary or rate expectations; flexibility with the type of work you do; and flexibility about where you are prepared to work. More >