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How to Attract Talent in Oxford’s Competitive Employment Market
As a recruiter, networker, and business owner, I am consistently working with other businesses, large or small, who all seem to share the same difficulties when recruiting talented employees. Although the severity of these difficulties depends on the location, seniority, and sector of the vacancy, the challenge itself always seems to remain. ‘The Digital Age’ […]
25Oct
How I built my CV outside of my 9-5 and how you can to!
As a young person myself (well youngish!), I found it tough to separate myself from my peers at the start of my career, as most young people do. Even most ‘entry-level’ jobs will request some form of experience, which seems ironic, how exactly do you get that experience? Throughout school, Rugby was my passion and […]
03Oct
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 […]
05Sep
Aoife – Candidate Experience Manager
Aoife joined our Graduate programme in 2019 after graduating with First-Class Honours in Communication, Media and Culture. Since then, her commitment, professionalism, and natural people skills have led to three well-earned promotions and most recently to her current role as Candidate Experience Manager. In this pivotal position, Aoife is responsible for the smooth running of […]
07Jun
The Linked Inn: An Alternative Way to Find Your Dream Job
Working in recruitment, we understand how stressful it can be to look for a new job. In a survey carried out by Linkedin last year, they established that an astonishing 45% of job seekers found the idea so daunting that they would rather go to the pub than spend time searching for a new role! […]
15May
A Recruiter’s Guide on How to Hire the Best Candidates for your Business
Recruitment can often be the difference between the success or failure of any small or large business, therefore it is vital that you do everything possible to ensure the former and avoid the latter. Although it does seem like common sense to avoid failure, it is often easier said than done. It’s easy to buy […]
21Oct
Ben – Managing Director
Ben launched Thompson & Terry Recruitment in 2014, with the vision to create a recruitment agency who would only submit a candidate to a client if we’d personally employ them ourselves. We created a strong set of values and mission statement, which we have lived by since the start and Ben is so proud to […]
Work for Thompson & Terry Recruitment
We are always eager to hear from good people, whether experienced recruiters or graduate level who share our company values to join our Abingdon based recruitment agency. In September 2018 we launched our very own graduate programme, which has been a huge part of our growth in recent years, resulting in 5 internal hires and […]
Welcome to Thompson & Terry Recruitment
Thompson & Terry Recruitment is an independent recruitment agency based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire who source and place candidates that we would personally employ ourselves. Whilst we have some experience of recruiting in almost every sector we mainly recruit candidates for Office Jobs, Administrative Jobs, Customer Service Jobs, Sales Jobs and Marketing Jobs, both locally and […]