Career Development

Build your career through networking

When opening the Thompson & Terry Recruitment doors back in 2014, being totally honest I didn’t really think I had a network (not to mention no recruitment agency experience) therefore I had to really quickly build relationships. I quickly started to attend every networking event I possibly could; the conversation starter was always around setting […]

Michaela Wain ‘Juggling a pregnancy when you have a full time job/business’

Ok so this one is for the girls, and it’s a tough one. It would be great if being pregnant was a walk in the park, but that’s not quite how reality works. I can understand why there was previously a time when women would sit at home cooking while pregnant while their husband went […]

How all small businesses can offer graduate schemes that are often better than the big boys!

As a recruiter and avid Oxfordshire business supporter, I often find that many Oxfordshire-based businesses, especially the smaller ones, find it challenging to attract fresh, intelligent and hungry talent into their businesses. With our wealth of world-class students, surely this shouldn’t be the case? Based on my research last summer, I found that Oxfordshire offers […]

Advice

We are here to help Finding a new job can be daunting. If you’re not sure which direction to take, whether that’s finding your first job, re-entering employment after a career break or looking to progress your career within another sector, we are here to help. For advice on anything from CV-writing to specific advice on […]