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November 28, 2020
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The Intricacies of the Document Controller by Darren Niman

By Cathy Bates | Workplace Advice and Tips
Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen!   Are you sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin… My good friend, and colleague in the employment world, Cathy, in her own inimitable way asked me recently to pen a...
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July 6, 2018
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Love Island and the Candidate Marketplace

By Cathy Bates | Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

Recent Love Island convert, and our MD, Cathy Bates shares her thoughts on how behaviours on the show mirror behaviours in the workplace.   I’ve never watched Love Island before this year but I’m gripped….

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November 6, 2017
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5 Ways to Secure a Promotion

Guest Blog: 5 Ways To Secure A Promotion At Work

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

Promotions at work aren’t given simply because you’re having an annual review, although it’s a common time for promotions to occur. Promotions are a reward for your commitment and value to the organisation and you…

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October 9, 2017
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Are you in the wrong job? Or are you working in your flow?

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Job Search Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

Are you in the wrong job? Perhaps completely the wrong career? Maybe you feel like you waste a lot of time on the wrong things?  Then you’re probably working outside of where you’re most happy…

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October 2, 2017
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70% open to new roles

Are your staff and colleagues open to a new job?

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

70% of British workers are open to a new job according to some recent research, even though only a quarter of the workforce is actively looking for new positions.  A well placed advert or a…

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July 3, 2017
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8 things you need to know about temporary work

Temporary Work: 8 Most Frequently Asked Questions

By Cathy Bates | Workplace Advice and Tips

Doing temporary work has a bad reputation. There are definitely companies that abuse the system, such as taking workers on for 12 weeks, then letting them go once they would be entitled to additional pay…

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June 12, 2017
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how caffeine affects your work

How does caffeine affect your work?

By Cathy Bates | News, Workplace Advice and Tips

What is that helps you and your colleagues get the working day? A love of your job? Being in sync with your company’s aims and values? Or perhaps it is simply a steady supply of…

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January 30, 2017
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Making working hours more flexible

The benefits (and drawbacks) of a 6 hour working week

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, HR & Payroll, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

Last year the town of Gothenburg in Sweden garnered a lot of attention in the world of HR and Recruitment.  The town was home to a trial scheme where instead of a standard 8 hour…

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December 11, 2016
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Should you work for a small business or a large company?

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Job Search Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

We get asked this question a lot.  Many of our candidates aspire to work for a large company, attracted by what they consider to be the best way to climb the career ladder.  In the…

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September 22, 2016
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How we dress for work is changing

By Cathy Bates | News, Workplace Advice and Tips

More and more companies are swapping suits and shirts for jeans and t-shirts.  In our office building in Stockport, it’s pretty rare we’ll share the lift with anyone in a tie, or other formal business…

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July 18, 2016
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Why you should never stop learning in your job

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, CV Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

  One of the viral news stories of last week was of Angela Laws who came out of retirement, aged 70, to work as a social media manager for a digital start-up.  In an interview…

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July 4, 2016
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The importance of positivity!

By Cathy Bates | News, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

There’s been a lot of negativity about the economy in the media following our EU referendum.  The pound has dropped in value, the stock market has taken a hit, but for the vast majority of…

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May 23, 2016
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Are professional qualifications really worth it?

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, CV Advice and Tips, HR & Payroll, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

Recruitment is one of the few industries left where there aren’t any entry requirements.  You don’t need to do a degree in recruitment, or have a diploma in CVs. A lot of the job is…

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April 20, 2016
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How you can manage to work in an office full of distractions

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

Humans not designed to keep working on one task for a long period of time and block out their surroundings – we wouldn’t still be here if sabre-toothed cats and the like were able to…

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March 30, 2016
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Are robots coming to your workplace?

The rise and rise of the robotic workforce

By Cathy Bates | Accounts & Finance, Engineering & Technical, News, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Sales and Sales Support, Workplace Advice and Tips

It’s being dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the explosion of robots, machines, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is coming.  There’s been a lot of recent speculation about how robotics and automation will…

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February 29, 2016
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Overworked and too much to do?

Is your work pro-active or reactive?

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

Sometimes it can feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the working day to do all the things you need to.  Extra work always seems to get piled on to your load and you’re…

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February 22, 2016
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4 healthy foods to snack on at your desk

By Cathy Bates | Workplace Advice and Tips

With Pancake Day now behind us, have you locked your treat cupboard? Are the biscuits banished, the sweets swept away and the chocolates behind bars?  An unhealthy diet can affect your concentration in the workplace…

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February 15, 2016
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The best paid job isn’t always the best option

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Job Search Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

You’ve hit the jackpot and been offered two jobs. They’re at similar companies doing similar things, but here’s the rub: one is offering a bigger pay packet but is considerably further away.  Which one do…

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February 1, 2016
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Ask Essential Personnel!

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Interview Advice and Tips, Job Search Advice and Tips, News, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

At Essential Personnel, we like to use our blog to share great advice with job seekers in Stockport and the North West so they can go on to find great jobs.  We also of course…

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January 4, 2016
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3 Tips for sticking to your New Year’s Resolution

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

It’s the first full week of January, have you managed to stick to any of your New Year’s Resolutions so far? At this time of year, after the excesses of the festive period, we all…

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December 14, 2015
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Just trust me! How a lack of trust really harms your business

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

There’s an endemic lack of trust in businesses in the UK.  And it could be doing real damage, especially to small businesses. Perhaps a lack of trust makes you reluctant to give new responsibilities to…

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December 7, 2015
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Don’t assume: You’ll never know unless you ask!

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Job Search Advice and Tips, Workplace Advice and Tips

When you come in to register with us and speak to one of our recruitment consultants, they ask a lot of questions.  It’s not because they haven’t read through your CV or looked at your…

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November 30, 2015
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Why should you leave your job?

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Recruitment Tips and Advice, Workplace Advice and Tips

Why you leave one job for another can sometimes be a mystery to your employer.  And sometimes, it can be as much of a mystery as to why they aren’t getting the right response to…

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October 19, 2015
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3 Myths About Working in a Call Centre

By Cathy Bates | Career Advice and Tips, Customer Services, Sales and Sales Support, Workplace Advice and Tips

Working on the phone has a bad reputation.  But the reality is very different!  For many of those who give it a try, call centres are great places to work and offer great opportunities.  So…

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September 7, 2015
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How far is too far to travel to work?

By Cathy Bates | Workplace Advice and Tips

Across the UK, the time taken for people to travel to work has been steadily increasing over the last 10 years.  The average journey time has gone from just over 25 minutes, in 2005 to…

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