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Are you paying a competitive salary? If you are a company owner, HR Manager or anyone involved in the recruitment process you will already appreciate that candidate salary expectations have increased.  This is a result of a number of factors including the cost of living and the shortage of available talent. As someone who connects UK employers to some of…

Leaving your Royal Navy, British Army or Royal Air Force military career can be a very apprehensive time irrespective of your service length, rank or cap badge.  For some people, it will be the very first time they have searched for a commercial job.  If the above resonates with you and you are keen to find out more about what…

It’s now 6 years since I joined Demob Job, I started as an outbound sales consultant, from day one I loved everything about the job and the team. I had no previous experience or understanding of military engineering backgrounds or how a recruitment agency worked. I quickly learned that Demob Job was so much more than a recruitment agency. Over…

What Does Effective and Efficient Hiring Look Like? The efficiency of your hiring process not only dictates the time, money and resource required, but could also prevent your business losing talented candidates to competitors. The average time it takes to recruit for a new role is just over 40 days. Ideally, the process should be taking a lot less, closer…

If you are serious about job hunting, there’s no doubt that you need a strong presence on social media. As a fast growing recruitment tool, if you’re not visible and actively engaging, you could be losing out to other applicants. If that sounds overwhelming or you’re not sure where to start, we have some clear and simple pointers for you.…

It is a serious question as I sometimes wonder if people leaving their military career consider the ‘recruitment consultant’ their friend or foe. So, which one is it? I recently had to question this again as another candidate, a job seeker with a previous military background, decided that it would be good practice to not attend an interview that had…

Why Has the Recruitment Landscape Changed Recently? It’s clear to any recruiter or business looking to hire that the world of work today looks different to its pre-pandemic state. This is coupled with a much-reported seeming shortage of labour, caused by a combination of Covid and Brexit. So what has changed and how can we adapt to keep attracting the…

Video interviewing is on the increase and, as an employer, you need to be sure you’re using this platform to find the best candidates. Here are some tips and ideas on how to make sure video interviews work for you and your candidates. Allocate enough time Despite being online, a video interview should be treated as a standard in-person interview.…

Written by Kelly Chandler As a working parent you have a daily battle of ‘mammy guilt’ for leaving your little one, then deciding who will look after your children throws you into so many other emotions, thoughts, and fears. Please tell me I am not alone on this. When my daughter Mollie was just a toddler, I needed to find…

The Royal Navy Marine Engineer arguably possesses one of the most attractive ex-military profiles for the commercial sector. Fact: out of the 1638 ex-military engineers we have placed with companies across the UK it is the Royal Navy Marine Engineer who has been placed the most. Why? Quite simply they possess such a wide and varied engineering skillset. This is…

This is becoming the most used sentence I have heard since returning to my desk. Where are all the candidates? Gone are the days with clients telling me their only struggle is due to the skill shortage in their local area, now it is an applicant shortage causing hiring managers the biggest headache. Have you noticed too? People joke about…

The Recruitment Equation  The recruitment equation does not always favour the employer.  Skills, experience, location, availability, salary expectations and qualifications contribute to the equation in question.  As an employer, we all hope that once the equation is calculated we end up with the correct answer; ‘The Ideal Candidate’.  Business factors and sometimes poor planning contribute to additional pressures in our aim, but these are easier to…