LOOKING AHEAD: FIVE RECRUITMENT TRENDS WE EXPECT FOR 2022 2021 was a uniquely challenging year in recruitment, with available roles far outstripping the number of eligible quality candidates looking to make a move in the post-pandemic landscape. Many businesses were caught on the back foot as a result, finding it more difficult than before to fi...

OUR GUIDE TO COUNTER OFFERS FOR EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS Counter offers have become increasingly commonplace in the past ten years. When you consider the cost of recruiting a suitable replacement for most skilled roles, the hit to productivity while onboarding a newcomer, and the general lack of candidate availability in the current climate, it’s...

WHAT CANDIDATES WANT IN THE POST-COVID JOBS MARKET The Coronavirus has turned the world of work on its head in more ways than one. Going into 2020 we had a very healthy jobs market, but coming out the other side of numerous lockdowns and an awful lot of uncertainty, the demand for candidates now far outstrips the number of people actively seekin...

THE IMPORTANCE OF A POSITIVE WORK CULTURE Every company wants candidates and employees who have a positive, can-do attitude. But in our experience, that positivity is something that can be developed from the inside out by a company’s values and overall working culture. Creating such a culture is the tricky part, though. That’s why we’ve penned t...

OUR ACCOUNTANCY AND FINANCE DIVISION IS EXPANDING! Here at Dynamite we’ve spent the last ten years placing over 4,500 people in permanent roles. Many of those were in the accountancy and finance sector - and yet, in many ways, we’re just getting started. That’s why we recently announced the promotion of Zoe Jones to manager of our accountancy an...

Top Tips to Get Your CV Noticed What are the main things you can do to get your CV noticed by recruiters? These are our tips! Recruiters typically take less than eight seconds to scan a CV before putting it on the yes, no or maybe piles. That’s not much time at all to convince a complete stranger that you might be right for a life-changing caree...

The Boutique Difference What is a boutique agency? Well, we know the word ‘boutique’ may conjure up images of impossibly fashionable people sipping macchiatos and typing feverishly on immaculate silver laptops. However, that’s only partially true. Being totally serious, what a boutique agency is in recruitment terms is a small, laser-focused tea...

It's time for us to expand again and we are currently recruiting for two Recruitment Consultants to join our team. You may be a Recruitment Consultant that is feeling under valued or within an environment that isn't exciting and moving forward or perhaps you've faced redundancy from your recruitment role. Either way, if you have recruitment sale...

'There must be hundreds of people out there...right?.......WRONG!' A must read blog for any businesses recruiting right now. Matt Fox, Dynamite's Managing Director, has written an insightful view on the current recruitment market. It's very easy to be sucked into the doom and gloom of what you read and see on the news and to then make an assumpt...

Thank you to all the clients and candidates that have worked with us this year. It's been a particularly challenging year (the most in our careers in fact) for obvious reasons but we feel positive as we near 2021. We are grateful for seeing a steady increase in business since the summer, with January 2021, looking to be our best month since Febr...