The IAAF (Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation) held another virtual briefing session today allowing members to keep up-to-date on automotive aftermarket developments. Kayleigh Bradley, Senior Recruiter at Glen Callum Associates, zoomed into the IAAF event and provided us with her brief on the latest automotive aftermarket news……..
Keeping connected! Glen Shepherd, AIRP and Kayleigh Bradley attended todays informative webinar hosted by a well respected panel of automotive aftermarket industry speakers discussing the impact of COVID-19 on their businesses and the wider challenges and opportunities for the automotive aftermarket. Continue reading full article
GCA has been conducting Executive Search for Senior Executive, Director and CEO level positions for over 21 years. Our Automotive Recruitment Director, Glen Shepherd heads our executive team. His leadership ensures that GCA’s recruitment knowledge, expertise and contacts are unrivalled. With a team of professional and ethical industry recruiters and headhunters working alongside Glen access to top jobs and top candidates within the automotive trade is a given.
Are you are an Executive searching for strategic and leadership roles? Then read on…
As part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic you will be well aware that the government has introduced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. This allows all UK employers with employees on a PAYE scheme to designate those employees as ‘furloughed workers’.
If you have furloughed your staff, what next?
The government has provided financial security for your staff but how can we, the employers, provide support? Continue reading full article
Our Team…
The Glen Callum Story for COVID-19 is a story I’m certain was mirrored within recruitment organisations throughout the UK, if not globally. Our initial concern was to safeguard our Team and to make sure that “business as usual” was the order of the day for as long as possible. Continue reading full article
UK stepping up:
It’s fair to say that in times of crisis the UK engineering and manufacturing sectors have historically stepped up. Now is no different and there is presently a huge and united effort with engineering & manufacturing playing their part in designing, re-designing, manufacturing and more importantly delivering equipment to support front line efforts and to help save lives. Businesses have reacted in ultra-short timescales to produce not only life-saving equipment, but also designing some innovative products, arguably more effective or easier to produce than solutions that have been servicing these sectors for years. Continue reading full article
The Glen Callum team will be attending the IAAF (Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation) Annual General Meeting on February 13th 2020, held at the IAAF offices in Birmingham. Director, Kerrie Richards and Senior Automotive Recruitment Consultant, Julian Curtis will be joining fellow IAAF Members attending the meeting to discuss various topics affecting businesses and professionals in the UK Automotive Aftermarket. Continue reading full article
Some recruitment agencies may be tempted into the trap of unethical recruitment, unfortunately this not only hurts their reputation but can affect the reputation of their clients and their candidates’ potential careers. At Glen Callum Associates we are proud to champion ethical recruitment practice. Outlined below are a few of the questions we have been asked by clients and candidates over the years regarding ethical recruitment.
Why do some recruiters approach candidates they have previously placed and been paid for?
We are often asked this question by clients and our proud response is:
We guarantee this is not our approach. We do not actively contact any of our current clients’ staff and we do not solicit candidates we have placed unless they have approached us directly requesting a move. Continue reading full article
Well done, you have been offered a job……now what next?
We are often asked by successful job seekers what to do when they have landed a job offer. Therefore, we have written a guide, using our experience of the process, to ensure that the transition from job offer to start date goes as smoothly as possible.
THE JOB OFFER
Firstly congratulations! You have suitably impressed and it is important at this stage that you continue to do so. It is still imperative that you enter into any post offer communications in a professional and timely manner. Continue reading full article
The Glen Callum Team were delighted to attend the IAAF Annual Conference and Awards Dinner at the Hilton, Milton Keynes. The evening was hailed as the best ever with over 600 aftermarket professionals socialising at the event, the largest of its kind in the automotive aftermarket. Widely regarded as the industry’s premier networking event the team enjoyed catching up with industry faces both old and new.
The 2019 IAAF Conference highlighted the massive technology-led transformation in the global automotive industry and how every business in the independent aftermarket can take full advantage. The opportunities and threats highlighted by new technologies were discussed and from a recruitment perspective the following areas of concern were brought to the fore as being areas for which the industry needs to prepare and evolve: Continue reading full article
