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Sourcing good quality candidates is a struggle for many businesses. There is still very little in the way of local events to promote your organisation and the opportunities available to work for you. In response to this dilemma, we organised a local Huntingdon Recruitment Fair in 2018, designed to help local businesses such as yours Read More…
If you have decided that the best way to recruit for your next role is with the help of a recruitment consultant, then this is the blog post for you. Here at Point Recruitment we have over 30 years experience in recruitment. We have shared some of our top tips below, to help you get Read More…
It’s not very usual that you will find a recruitment agency discussing the disadvantages of using recruitment agencies in Huntingdon. Yet here we are, doing exactly that. While working with a recruitment agency will help you find work sooner and speed up the recruitment process, we know there are some disadvantages too. We have listed Read More…
Point Professional Recruitment Ltd exploded onto the High Street in Huntingdon in 1989 along with the launch of the World Wide Web! There was one other local agency and candidates were queuing up outside to register! Little did our Director, Loraine Rance, know when she opened the office,that Point Professional Recruitment Ltd would still be Read More…
Point Professional Recruitment Ltd is an independent agency, providing a quality service to companies across the Huntingdon, St Ives, St Neots and surrounding areas. We are small but perfectly formed. We have fully embraced the advancements that technology has offered – speed, accuracy, information, ease of contact and the opportunity to keep up with the developing trends Read More…
While it is a candidate driven market, it can be easy to presume that is the reason you aren’t attracting the right candidates to your vacancies. However, it could be the job description that is putting the candidates off. A bad job description could be all it takes to put a candidate off your vacancy Read More…
Here at Point Recruitment we work with our candidates to help them understand what their dream job could be. Then we help them with bagging that dream job. In some cases you may need to do temp work to gain the experience in the industry that you need to get that dream job. However we Read More…
Your future workforce will need candidates from the Generation Z age range. However it is important to note that candidates in this age bracket have different requirements from their employment. In this blog post we have put together some information about what Generation Z candidates are looking for and how you can attract these candidates Read More…
There are lots of different reasons that candidates opt for temp work. Here at Point Recruitment in Huntingdon we speak to lots of amazing candidates that are only looking for temp work. In this blog post we look at why some candidates just want to be temporary workers. One in seven people that have worked Read More…
Point Recruitment is thrilled to announce we are reaching our 30th year in business. We are a traditional recruitment agency with a high street presence. In fact we have been in the same office on the high street in Huntingdon since we first began in 1989. We have seen a lot of changes in the world of Read More…
Here at Point Recruitment we have had a strong ‘High Street’ presence for nearly 30 years. In fact Point Recruitment in Huntingdon has been in the same office building since we first began! However, this doesn’t mean that we haven’t moved with the times. We know that some people like to come into the recruitment Read More…
We often speak to business owners that state they do not use recruitment agencies because of the cost. Some business owners feel that recruitment agencies cost too much and therefore it is cheaper to recruit new employees by themselves. However, some of these business owners haven’t considered the risk and the cost of a bad Read More…
Interesting Interviewing Stats You Need To Know. As a business owner looking to grow your business, interviewing candidates is a must. While you may think that interviewing a candidate is a series of questions and a chance to learn more about the candidate, an interview is far more than that! An interview is also the Read More…
Part of recruiting for your business is about attracting talent to your business. Recruitment is no longer advertising a job and choosing the best candidate. Instead recruitment is about attracting talent. There are more and more jobs out there, but less and less candidates. You need to put job adverts out there that attract talent Read More…
When you advertise a new vacancy for your business it can be very easy to get lots of applications from job seekers, but it often not so easy when you are aiming at attracting qualified job seekers to fill your job role or vacancy. In this blog post we would like to share some top Read More…
We have lots of candidates that come into our high street recruitment agency in Huntingdon. They have either seen a job advert in the window that they like, were passing by or have heard of us from the (almost) 25 years that we have been running, from the same office. It got us thinking, why Read More…
In previous blogs, when meeting candidates and across our social media we share interview tips and ideas of things that you should say in interviews. However in this blog post we thought we would change it up a bit. We wanted to share some things with you that you should NOT say in an interview. Read More…
Research from CareerBuilder shows that 35% of workers admit to calling in sick in the last year, even when they felt well! Further to this, one in 10 workers admitted to doing so more than 3 times in the last year. 23% of workers said their reason for calling in sick was just because they Read More…
Reports show that the amount of people without a job is currently at the lowest it has been in over 40 years and the unemployment rate is at just 4%. While this is great for the UK and the economy, it does mean it is tougher to get the best talent into your business. British Read More…
We all know that your first day in a new job can be a scary experience. It can take you a while to understand the lay of the land. You have to get used to the atmosphere in the office and the social etiquette, all alongside learning your new job and how they do things Read More…