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26 February 2021 Ask The Consultant - Looking Forward To A Post Pandemic Manufacturing Industry
As we prepare to enter March and approach our 12th month of the pandemic, there is no doubting that the last year has been one like no other for businesses and consumers alike. We have battled through lockdowns, adapted to working from home and tried to come to terms with tier systems and what th...
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27 July 2020 How To Stand Out In A Crowded Job Market And Find The Right Role For You
As lockdown eases and companies continue to try to adapt to the sudden affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is an unfortunate inevitability that jobs are lost and unemployment rates increase. At the same time, those businesses that are still trading may have smaller recruitment budgets and so, m...
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19 March 2020 Working From Home - How To Structure and Stay Sane!
Over the last couple of weeks, we have all sat and monitored the worldwide news as the coronavirus spread from China, across each country and tornadoed its way towards the UK. As the number of cases increases by the day, we all bear the responsibility of doing what we can to protect the most vul...
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09 March 2020 International Women's Day 2020 - Women Inspired
Yesterday marked 2020's, International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate women’s power, their worth and gender equality. On Friday, I was fortunate enough to be invited along to ‘Women Inspired’, an event focused on raising money for ‘Street Soccer’ and celebrating women breaking into male dominat...
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07 January 2020 New Year, New You? Why Using A Recruitment Agency Is The Best Way To Find A New Job
It’s the first full week back at work after the Christmas break and if you’re reading this… chances are you are already thinking, ‘Do I want to spend the rest of 2020 in my current role?’For many, a new year marks an opportunity to hit the reset button and decipher what it is in our lives we wou...
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18 October 2019 What To Do When You Don’t Get The Job
At our very core, we as human beings are social animals. Where other animals learn about their worlds from the five senses, humans essentially learn from each other. It is human nature to yearn for a sense of belonging and that is why, despite rejection being inevitable in our lives; the sting n...
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02 October 2019 £60m Boost to the Scottish Food and Drink Industry Forecast as a Result of Gleneagles Based ‘Showcasing Scotland’
“Scotland’s larder is world-famous. From salmon and seafood to whisky and meat, Scotland’s food and drink has a global reputation for quality and makes a key contribution to the country’s economy and export performance.” – Showcasing ScotlandThe three day event taking place between 1st – 3rd Octo...
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17 September 2019 Ask The Consultant – Why Did You Choose A Career In Recruitment?
Making the decision to start a new career or change employers can seem like a daunting prospect but the newest member of our team did just that! After a career working for RBS and with a focus to work in a role where he was able to interact with people and make a positive impact, he decided that...
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21 August 2019 Could Alcohol-Free Replace Your Usual G&T?
Statistics show that the amount of young people between 16 -25 who drink alcohol is falling year on year. Factors including health awareness, frugality and changes in drink-driving laws are causing a social change and we are seeing sobriety become more mainstream and even ‘trendy’ with the openi...
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14 August 2019 The ‘Happy To Talk’ Movement
It’s a miserable Tuesday morning; the wind is howling, the rain battering down and as you and your fellow commuters finally step off the platform and onto the crowded 8.23 train into town… the last thing you want to do is strike up a conversation with a stranger. You look around and everyone aro...
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16 July 2019 The Importance Of Building Your Professional Network Now, For The Job You Want In The Future
The saying, ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’ does not necessarily ring true. There is no doubt that a wealth of knowledge and experience within your field is the most important component when searching for a new role. That being said, having an industry focused network of like-minded ...
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24 June 2019 The Royal Highland Show 2019
Record numbers attended the 179th annual Scottish Royal Highland Show over the weekend with almost 200,000 attendees – bringing in a staggering, estimated £65million into Scotland’s economy. Prize money and trophies also collectively being valued at £2million were distributed to winning livestoc...
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19 June 2019 Snap, Crackle & Pop Are All Grown Up!
Kellogg’s have announced an innovative new way they are becoming more sustainable by inserting their rejected famous cereals into the beer market. This new scheme will revive your nostalgic side as the subtle flavours take you back to munching on coco pops and rice crispies before the daily scho...
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17 June 2019 Ask The Consultant – Why Did You Decide To Join Alexander Steele?
The Recruitment Industry is extremely competitive and growing rapidly. For established consultants and those looking to go into this line of work, there is a huge amount of choice when considering what company to work for and what market to work within.Finding our niche and the factor that made ...
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11 June 2019 Why Join The CNC Job Market?
The CNC market is an ever-growing industry with a very high demand for employment – mainly due to the lack of young apprentices joining the workforce and an ageing workforce at the top.The industries with a particular interest in recruiting new CNC employees are all over the UK within the aerosp...
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07 June 2019 How Has Technology Boosted The Food and Drink Industry?
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04 June 2019 Scotland, The Land of Food and Drink – £30bn Plan
For its sixth annual food and drink report, Bank of Scotland surveyed 100 Scottish food manufacturers where more than two thirds of firms said they are planning to pursue new international customers over the next 5 years in response to the Brexit vote. The industry is further predicted to increas...
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28 May 2019 Could This Be The Saving Grace For Dietary Restricted Chocoholics?
The vegan sector of the Food and Drink industry has increased hugely with the population of veganism more than tripling in the last 10 years in the UK. This is mainly due to a demand for the prevention of exploiting animals or to contribute stopping the impacts the meat industry has on the envir...
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24 May 2019 Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards 2019
We would like to congratulate all this year’s winners of the Scottish Food and Drink Excellence Awards held last night!The annual event was held in the Edinburgh Corn Exchange where 52 of Scotland’s top food and drink businesses gathered for the prestigious event in front of 800 guests. The awar...
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21 May 2019 Scotland’s Favourite Soft Drink Enters The Energy Drinks Market
The rapid growth of the energy-drink industry over the last 25 years has resulted in originally non-energy drink companies to expand into this sector.Recently, the famously Scottish fizzy drink Irn-Bru has announced they will be introducing an energy drink on 1st July 2019. Marketing director Ad...