Career

Why we only work exclusively with clients

Before I joined Thompson & Terry Recruitment, I’d already worked in recruitment. I arrived thinking I knew the job. You build a database, you register CVs, and when a role comes in, you see who you already have.  That isn’t what I found here. If I’m honest, it felt strange at first. There was no […]

Reflections on Recruitment, Four Months After my Exit

Almost four months ago, I left the Thompson & Terry Recruitment office for the last time, having launched, grown and ultimately exited a business that had been such a big part of my life for 12 years. Aoife recently asked me to write a guest blog reflecting on recruitment with the benefit of a little […]

From Graduate to Leading the Business

When I joined Thompson & Terry Recruitment as a fresh graduate in 2019, I certainly didn’t expect that exactly seven years later, I’d be independently leading the business day-to-day. It’s been an exciting, sometimes challenging, but ultimately incredible journey, and one that has been shaped by opportunity. Opportunity was exactly what I was promised in […]

Why Company Culture Matters

Introduction Company culture is becoming an increasingly important factor for candidates when considering a new role. While salary and benefits remain important, professionals care a lot about company values, career development, support, flexibility and overall company culture. Whether the culture has been carefully curated, or has developed naturally over time, understanding how your business makes […]

5 Reasons Great Candidates Walk Away

Introduction As we know, recruitment has many stages and every hire can look very different. Sometimes, we find the right person quickly and the hiring process moves along smoothly and positively for everyone involved. However, it doesn’t always happen like that. There are lots of reasons a recruitment process can take longer than expected. Hiring […]

Does Overexplaining a Role, Including the Good, Bad and Ugly, Put Candidates Off?

In short, no. In today’s competitive hiring landscape, transparency has become a core principle in attracting the right talent. Our MD, Ben, identified a gap in the market and created Thompson & Terry recruitment with our mission statement to be transparent, honest and ethical; 3 simple concepts that the world of recruitment typically isn’t. Something I learned very quickly after joining Thompson & […]

Should I Still Hire in December?

Should I Still Hire in December? As the year draws to an end, many businesses start thinking ahead to January as the “real” time to refocus on recruitment, and it can feel natural to wait until the new year to pick hiring back up. It’s common to assume that candidates won’t be active and that […]

Why Soft Skills Matter More Than Ever in Hiring

In today’s fast-changing job market, technical skills will get a candidate noticed, but it’s often a candidate’s soft skills that determine long-term success. It often goes underrated how much the ability to collaborate, adapt, and communicate effectively is just as important as ability and skillset. Technology Is Evolving – but can you replicate human interaction? […]

Why Should All Employers Consider Implementing a Graduate Programme?

After just graduating from Durham University with First-class honours in Geography and Sociology I decided that staying at home in Abingdon would be the move for me and so I began my search for a wide variety of graduate programmes in Oxfordshire. I knew that many graduate programmes are based in London and other big […]

Reflecting on a Decade of Running Thompson & Terry Recruitment

So, when I look back to my first conversation with Mike Terry in late 2013 (at just 23 years old!) where we planned our vision for Thompson & Terry Recruitment, it seems crazy to me that in many ways our business today is exactly how we envisaged. We had the vision that we would set […]