Mary Maguire, Managing Director at award-winning Chamber Member Astute Recruitment, assesses how business can improve their chances of award success – and what winning can do for your business. This article was featured in the EMC’s Business Magazine. Let’s go back to March 2014. I was a new business owner who had tried entering awards […]
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Astute Recruitment are delighted to announce our next exclusive quarterly business breakfast event will take place on February 15th 2018. We have managed to secure a fantastic international guest speaker, published author and business coach – John Dabrowski! · Have you ever felt that pressure of work is getting too much? · Do you […]
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One of our MDs was asked by East Midlands Business Link to comment on the Autumn statement made by the Chancellor yesterday. The article published is as follows: – “Mary Maguire, MD of Astute Recruitment, said: Philip Hammond certainly laid out some positive steps to help UK businesses in today’s budget. For example, […]
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Wednesday’s Autumn Statement: What SME Business Owners Want to hear.. An Early Christmas wish list! In an uncertain world where the UK’s parliament hangs on a slim majority and with Brexit around the corner a lot of business owners will be casting a keen eye over Wednesday’s Autumn Statement. Will there be more red […]
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As recently published by the REC, some interesting information emerged about the current job market and in particular for the Accountancy sector, candidates looking for their next job and for employers looking to recruit. The key takeaways were: – Permanent placements rise at weakest pace for five months… Growth in temporary billings levelled off […]
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Employee Benefits & Initiatives – ‘Creating Desire in your Hires and existing team’ We asked several HR Managers, CFO’s and Financial Directors, if they would be interested in us providing guidance and advice around employee benefits and staff initiatives. The aim? To improve candidate attraction throughout the hiring process and also to appeal to existing valued staff. We thought […]
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What an amazing Friday morning we had at Pride Park Stadium with Neale Lewis. His presentation on how to scale up your business for financial success went brilliantly! We were able to capture some great snippets on video of Neale too and you can watch these HERE! Over 50 businessmen and women across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire […]
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May 2017 is Mental Health Month. Everyone from Prince Harry to Brad Pitt have commented on this but so have a lot of ordinary people like you and I. For years, this whole topic has been a silent taboo. Hardly anyone has dared to raise this, let alone admit to suffering from mental exhaustion or […]
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I watched a great documentary last night that followed Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko. They’ll be squaring up to face one another this Saturday night. Youth vs experience. Whist I personally don’t place boxing in my top ten of sports, watching how Anthony came from humble beginnings, pulling away from the rough side of […]
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