I am delighted and humbled to have been elected onto the Representative Committee of APSCo and excited to be able to bring my wealth of recruitment knowledge and vast experience of supporting and coaching recruitment leaders grow and expand their businesses across the UK, Europe, America, and Australia. APSCo UK has recently announced my...
“Those who are unaware of history are destined to repeat it.” When I started in the IT recruitment industry back in the early 1980’s, for a company called Myriad Appointments, it was a very different world. Before you could get a ‘job-on’ you had to sell the concept of using an agency to clients...
UK Skills Crisis – We need change… Now The UK Skills Crisis is probably the biggest challenge the UK Recruitment Industry has faced this century.Whilst the crisis has been brewing for years and repeated governments have sought to address the issue with minor interventions to our education systems, our adult training and the UK corporation...
Talence are delighted to announce the dates for the upcoming Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace course, designed for line managers. The course is delivered over a full day with interactive training, course manuals and covers everything a line manager needs to know to support employees’ mental health in the workplace. Managers at all...
North America – a Niche Recruitment Growth Opportunity As the domestic recruitment market becomes challenging for many UK businesses and our relationship with mainland Europe remains uncertain, we’ve seen more recruitment companies looking to expand internationally. Asia and the Gulf States have become popular markets to explore, with Dubai a common first step for many...
Future of Recruitment 2020-2030 – Your Future Starts Today Over the past six to seven years I have written many blogs, many of which have proved hugely popular like Top 5 Recruitment Sectors to be in for the next 5-10 years which has had over 30,000 readers and this years Top Recruitment Sectors for Growth...
Tips on Scaling up your Recruitment Business (part two) The second biggest challenge recruitment business owners experience is when they decide to appoint a manager and relinquish direct control of their sales team. This can be a challenging and extremely stressful time, like leaving someone else to bring up one of your children. Many...
Tips on Scaling up your Recruitment business (Part One) Often the biggest challenges new recruitment entrepreneurs have are growing their business from being the top biller to billing manager and then on from billing manager to managing/directing through managers/team leaders. These are the two big hurdles at which many recruitment leaders fail. If truth be...
Future of Recruitment 2020-2030 This month Ian Knowlson will be speaking at Recruitment Expo 2018, the UK’s No 1 Recruitment Industry Event in London on 31st January 2018. In his lively and stimulating talk Ian will share his knowledge, as an employment futurist and experience as a highly successful Business Growth Coach, to help attendees...
Transforming Business – Case Study At the Selling Success we believe passionately in helping our clients grow through the development of their leadership teams and their staff. We have a wealth of experience in achieving this working with recruitment business owners the length and breadth of the UK and Europe, across a multitude of sectors from...
