Recruitment

New Client Opportunity for 2020

Here at Thompson & Terry Recruitment, we are passionate about only sending candidates across to clients that we would personally employ ourselves. For that reason, over 70% of the first CV we send over receives a job offer (national average circa 5%). This demonstrates the focus we place on the quality and relevance of a […]

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 […]

Is Christmas a good time to apply for another job?

Before working in recruitment, I just presumed that the Christmas period was the time when companies began to slow down, put a hold on hiring and just leave recruitment to the New Year. But how true is this? Since joining Thompson & Terry Recruitment, I have seen how busy recruitment is and now, with only […]

Should I write a cover letter, when applying for jobs?

Should I write a cover letter? For the purpose of this blog, I will focus on whether you should write a cover letter when applying for a job via a recruitment agency, rather than direct to an employer. If applying directly to an employer, we would highly recommend writing a strong cover letter, but via […]

29
Nov

How to interview fairly (the 5 steps to transparency)

As a recruitment agency owner, I am always trying to find better ways to interview candidates; but what defines better? Actually, in my opinion, the job of an interviewer is twofold; firstly to give a complete and honest overview of you as a company and also the role itself, with no grey areas. Secondly, is […]

15
Nov

Should I work in recruitment after graduating?

Graduating was a complete mix of emotions. My first thought was ‘yes, finally’, but then it dawned on me… it was time to enter the adult world! It was actually a really confusing time, I found it really hard to work out what I wanted to do, as most young people do. I graduated with […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

Aoife – Candidate Experience Manager

Aoife is a first class honours graduate in Communication, Media and Culture. Since finishing her degree in 2019, Aoife joined our Graduate programme in the position of Graduate Business Executive and has since been promoted twice! Following her academic success, Aoife originally joined Thompson & Terry Recruitment to expand her knowledge of how a business […]