• How to manage a successful relationship with your recruitment consultant Our 'astute' tips!

    How to manage a successful relationship with your recruitment consultant? Our ‘astute’ tips!

    Even though the jobs market is at it’s busiest for years, and job boards abound with opportunities, it can be hard to actually speak to a recruitment consultant. Recruiters are busy people at the moment! So we thought we would explore this and ask, “How can you manage a successful relationship with your recruitment consultant?” […]

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    Why good interview feedback really matters. Interview tips from Astute Recruitment

    Feedback is crucial after interviews. Heres why!

    Why good interview feedback really matters   Our team been working exclusively with a long-standing client to recruit an Assistant Management Accountant. Ideally someone with bright enquiring mind, keen to learn with an accounting and finance degree.  Some experience in a finance role would be ideal. After shortlisting down from 18 candidates to the best […]

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    6 'astute' Interview questions and answers to help you get a job in a pandemic

    6 interview questions AND answers to help you nail the perfect job in the pandemic.

      With interview requests and new jobs taken by our team at Astute Recruitment, it’s great to share some pointers for candidates about to enter the job market to give them an edge on interview.   Imagine, you’ve been selected for a job interview! Well done! It’s always great news, but especially so in such […]

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    Have you got the right PPE for your career?

    Is the job paying the most, the best one to go for? Why PPE is the true currency when looking for staff or a new job.

                          Is the job paying the most, the best one to go for? Why PPE is the true currency when looking for staff or a new job.   The current job market is so different to any other situation. In the last economic crisis back […]

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    Internet search firm Three Best Rated Rates Astute Recruitment as one of the 3 best recruitment companies in Derby

    Astute Recruitment is one of the Three Best Rated Recruitment Agencies in Derby!

                      All of us at Astute Recruitment Ltd are delighted to have been formally included as one of Derby’s top three recruitment agencies on the prestigious search website Three Best Rated! With over 15 business awards and successful recruitment across the Derbyshire region, its great to be […]

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    Do your furloughed staff know you CARE

    Do your furloughed staff know you still care?

      Furlough. With over 8 million workers furloughed, we wanted to ask employers, “Do your furloughed staff know you still care about them?”   When did you last talk openly with your furloughed employees?   Just a week ago was a Bank Holiday. The next one isn’t until the end of August. Between now and […]

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    Mental Health Week Can Your Business Afford to Ignore Mental Health?

    Mental Health Week 2020. We ask can your business afford NOT to take mental health seriously?

    Mental Health Week Can Your Business Afford to Ignore Mental Health?     We investigate the key impacts, costs, AND savings to companies of mental health at work.   Mental health has increasingly been highlighted as a key factor in business and employee performance, success and productivity.   This year’s Mental Health Week has special […]

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    If we fail to believe we believe in failure

    Inspiration from the front! What we need is self-belief. An inspirational article by Mary Maguire, MD.

      Whilst Sarah Stevenson and I set up in ’09, clearly a very difficult time, we knew we were great at what we do, confident to carry this through with just Sarah’s redundancy and ultimately we believed. In ourselves and our ability to source talented accountants for local clients. We believed in our relationships. We […]

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    Have you heard about our triple-point guarantee. Article featured in AGENDA magazine's Autumn Edition 2018

    Industry Game Changer

    Astute Recruitment in Queen Street is re-inventing the way recruiters are seen with a unique ‘Triple Point Guarantee’, which offers clients £500 in cash should their vacancy not be filled in time.   The service is being offered to companies with a permanent role available which choose Astute as their sole recruiter for an agreed […]

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