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UK Top Talent can’t Compete with Globalisation

Globalisation means that in many ways it’s easier to have technology designed in India, Far Eastern manufacturing products produced in China and labour from Eastern Europe to undertake the jobs those in the UK don’t want to do.

Indeed, for some time it’s been possible to give “a brief” for artwork for an online brochure at 3pm one afternoon and wake up the following morning for the brochure to be already uploaded onto a professionally produced new website that had been designed and placed on the net and is ready to take orders online.

And all of this for one sixth of the cost you would pay in the UK!
So has or will UK Talent and many businesses price themselves out of the marketplace?

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Interview nightmares

Have you a story of a job interview that went wrong?For instance: The Accountant that sat in front of the interview panel with his flies undone with his white pants showing through.
or the interviewer who got the application notes muddled up and interviewed the “wrong candidates” all day.

If something similar has happened to you then we would love to know

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21% of staff have no recruitment training

A survey by Reed Consulting has revealed that 21% of staff involved in recruiting staff have been trained in recruitment techniques.

This obviously contributes to the number of poor appointments made and to the statistic researched by BRC that 40% of Executives in a new job fail within two years.

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