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Is it a competitive job market? Are employers hiring?

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What is the latest news on the job market and is the country in recovery yet?

What is the competition for jobs like and is it an employee or an employers market?

Is now a good time to search for a job?

These are the questions posed to recruiters daily by employers and jobseekers.   Questions from clients keen to encourage the best candidates to work for them, and enquiries from jobseekers wanting to know whether they are in a good position to find work.  So what are the answers?

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Automotive Aftermarket Recruiter

Kayleigh zooms into the Automotive IAAF briefing

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Kayleigh’s brief on the latest IAAF Automotive Aftermarket news

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……..

DVSA – Managing recalls and Market Surveillance

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Are you an Executive searching for strategic and leadership roles?

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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…

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Support your staff through furlough

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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

Recruitment during and after Covid-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed the shape of working – but what will its future impact on recruitment and business in general be?  What permanent changes are likely when recruiting staff?

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Pre-lockdown

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

Future of UK Engineering and Manufacturing

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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

IAAF Members

IAAF Annual General Meeting 2020

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IAAF, IAAF Annual General Meeting 2020, Independent automotive aftermarket federation, glen callum associates, uk, automotive industry, automotive news uk, 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

Ethical Recruiting the Glen Callum Way!

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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

What to do after accepting a job offer?

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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