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Work-Life Balance as a Parent: How to Have a Successful Summer
We explore the impact of the Flexible Working Bill, and provide actionable tips to help you establish a routine, set boundaries and manage your mental health this summer.
How to Create Diverse Shortlists
We explain how hiring managers can ensure they have a diverse hiring strategy and inclusivity within their organisation by optimising their shortlists. We hear from CMA’s own Inclusion and Diversity working group who provide expert advice for creating diverse shortlists and making big steps in your own organisation’s diversity programme.
How to Succeed at an Assessment Day
An assessment day – or assessment centre – is commonly used in recruitment and is usually the final stage of the recruitment process and is also often part of graduate recruitment schemes in particular. In this helpful article, CMA’s HR Business Partner Hayley Murphy offers her expert advice to help de-mystify assessment days and ensure you are fully-prepared and set up to succeed on the day.
How to Handle a Counter Offer – A Recruiter’s Guide
So, you’ve found a new job, received an offer from your new employer and handed in your resignation letter. You’re doing a happy dance! Then, it arrives. A counter offer from your current employer. What do you do? In this article we outline the things you need to think about when considering a counter offer – with expert tips from our consultants to help you navigate through making the right choice for you and your career.
So, you’ve received multiple job offers?
It may seem like the dream scenario, but in fact it can be a real nail-biting situation; with a lot of pressure to make the correct decision. In a market where there are more jobs than suitable candidates, you’re much more likely to end up in this position, but fear not. With the help of Senior HR Consultant Zoe Martin, we have put together this article to help support you in avoiding the overwhelm and making the right choice.
Supporting Dyslexia in the Workplace
With diversity and inclusion a hot topic in the contemporary workplace, it’s surprising that often dyslexia and those employees who have it are left out of the conversation. In fact, it’s thought that around one in seven people (up to 15 per cent of the UK population) have dyslexia, with many more going undiagnosed. Read CMA team members Moya and Mark's personal stories.