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Balancing Pro-activeness and a Personal Life

With employers becoming worried about their staff ‘quiet-quitting’, it has become more important than ever to show your employer that you’re a pro-active member of the team. However, this should never come at a cost to your work-life balance! Perfecting the work-life balance has been a topic of business conversations in recent years but as […]

CV Writing Template to Make You Stand Out from the Crowd

The purpose of a CV is to demonstrate to potential employers who you are, what skills you have, and why you would be the best fit for their vacancy. However, as a recruitment agency, we review hundreds of CVs every day and often see candidates making the same errors. This blog has been designed to […]

6 Things to Remember Before Starting a New Job

Congratulations! You just got a new job! But what happens now? At Thompson & Terry Recruitment, we understand it can be both exciting and daunting to start a new job whether you’re fresh out of university, progressing in your career, or changing careers. Here are some things to think about after you accept that all […]

The Best Jobs to Find Post-Graduation

Some people leave school and university knowing exactly where life will go and what they will achieve but so many others get lost and confused because the magical career epiphany hasn’t happened for them! I remember my two years at sixth form being a time of chaos and disorder with teachers constantly asking what I […]

Is now a risky time to search for a new job?

Just last week this blog would have been worded quite differently, but being totally honest, since the COVID restrictions were re-introduced and the news of the new variant, it is now more difficult to predict what will happen to the job market. We have seen before with previous restrictions that companies tend to slow down […]

An update on the Oxfordshire employment market

Over the past 19 months and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK employment market has been precarious, unpredictable and uncertain. This has resulted in a huge change for businesses and hiring managers across the UK. In turn, this has completely changed the way businesses are hiring and recruiters are recruiting. Recruitment Market […]

What is the job market like right now?

There is a large speculation that many companies across the UK are still on a recruitment freeze or are simply not hiring. However, the job market has seen a massive shift and according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), ‘the number of payroll employees has increased for the eight consecutive month’, showing clear signs […]

How to prepare for redundancy

In a somewhat unknown economic climate, it’s difficult to predict what the UK economy will look like once the majority of government support schemes end. Since starting my career back in 2009, and opening a recruitment agency in 2014, I have always found the job market buoyant, with redundancies rarely heard of outside the public […]

Should I use a recruitment agency to employ staff?

As a recruitment agency owner, you’d probably expect me to say “yes every time” but actually more often than not, at Thompson & Terry Recruitment we say to clients that they probably don’t need to use an agency to fill their vacancy. We are all experts in our profession and will probably know our businesses […]

Should I work in sales?

Whether you are looking for your first job after education or you’re currently working within a completely different industry and you are considering making a career move into sales, here are some great tips and things to consider – as my colleague Ben would say, the good, the bad and the ugly! The good Commercial […]