Like many other PR recruiters, I received an email recently from PR Week about a disgruntled customer who complained that ‘when I have been contacted by the agency – usually after chasing them up – I found that while they were happy to discuss the merits of my substantial experience, the positions I had applied [...]
In your paperless office there is an ever-growing mountain of flagged, exclamated and deadlined emails with your name on them, which are tick tock ticking towards the dreaded 'due-in-10-minutes' Outlook reminder. Your particular mountain is one of those over developed mounds which started life as a reasonably manageable scraping of mud from a giant's boot [...]
Since the opening of our first European office in Paris in 2005, where we recruit for big names such as DDB Ciel et Terre, TBWA and Dassault, Hanson Search has been committed to developing a global presence, from New York to Dubai. As such, working at Hanson Search involves working in a challenging and multicultural [...]
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We’ve all been there and we all know what it feels like to suffer from a broken heart. You can’t eat, you can’t sleep and inevitably everything you see and do seems remind of your loss. However, a Japanese company is now taking measures to support its staff should their hearts get broken by [...]
We all remember the days when we would see people on their way to work, suited and booted, shoes polished, tie straightened. But times are changing and the new ‘smart casual’ policy is slowly creeping into our daily working lives. Gone are the high-powered daily suits and shoulder pads and here are the ‘smart [...]
Its no longer just ‘Junk Food’ affecting our work- enter ‘Junk Sleep’. For a long time now those of us in work have been advised to be healthy and eat well. It is recommended we do regular exercise and avoid junk food, some of which we do and some we’re just too busy for! [...]
Nine to five is out of date, don’t you know. ROWE – Results Only Work Environment – is quickly catching on in the USA. Instead of working your fixed hours at your desk, you can choose when and where you write those reports, meaning you can fit gym sessions and the school runs in around [...]
You may not think that it’s any of your boss’s business how often you go to the gym, but the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has said that there can be many benefits for employers who promote exercise to their employees. As well as being beneficial for staff’s health by improving their [...]
We may think it’s scandalous that some Britons are denied jobs on the basis of their race, gender, religion or age, but just be glad you don’t live in Spain. Medical experts are trying to reduce the number of reasons why candidates can be declined from jobs with the Civil Guard. Current ones include having [...]
