by Verity Morish | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a remote worker since I joined Chiumento in 2016 and I love it. Back then, pre-covid, I was certainly in the minority and was looked upon with envy and perhaps some suspicion by many of my peers. Remote/home/flexible working made my life infinitely better.... 
by Verity Morish | Jun 15, 2022 | Blog, Employment Advice
Exit interviews – sometimes overlooked or simply undertaken as a tick box exercise before your departing employee waves goodbye, hands in their ID badge, and sets off for pastures new. However, we think they need to be given more attention, interviewing those that are... 
by Verity Morish | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Why is hiring so hard and so expensive right now? The numbers speak for themselves: Full employment is typically defined by economists as the point at which less than 5% of the workforce is unemployed. The UK unemployment figure is currently 3.9% there few, if any,... 
by Verity Morish | Apr 26, 2022 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working, world of work
Over the past month I’ve seen and read, what appears to be, an increasing number of articles covering the more negative aspects of home/hybrid working. Now we’ve passed the 2-year anniversary of the big move to a more home/remote based working model are the... 
by Verity Morish | Mar 30, 2022 | Outplacement
“The more I practice the luckier I get.” This is one of my favourite quotes. There is some debate about who originally coined it, but it’s most often attributed to the great South African golfer, Gary Player, when asked if he felt he’d been particularly lucky on one... 
by Verity Morish | Mar 30, 2022 | Careers Advice
What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic interview question. So how do you answer it? My advice, as with any interview question, is to consider: why is the interviewer is asking me this? Habit might be one reason. This is straight out of the interview... by Verity Morish | Mar 29, 2022 | Careers Advice
What are your strengths and weaknesses? This is a classic interview question. So how do you answer it? My advice, as with any interview question, is to consider: why is the interviewer is asking me this? Habit might be one reason. This is straight out of the interview... 
by Verity Morish | Nov 23, 2021 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working
I’ve just been reading an article from a US magazine that reports how sick leave amongst homeworkers appears to be 70% lower than for their office-based equivalents. As with all data, I think that raw statistic poses more questions than it provides answers. What it... 
by Verity Morish | Nov 20, 2021 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working, world of work
How you exit people can be as important to your talent strategy and employer brand as how you onboard them. Done well it can pay big dividends – encouraging people to return in the future and in the meantime act as advocates in the jobs market. I remember writing an... 
by Verity Morish | Nov 3, 2021 | Employment Advice
Delegation – or frankly the inability to do it – is often one of the biggest constraints on business growth. Leaders, no matter how good, have finite capacity, and eventually even the best run out of bandwidth and become bottlenecks in their own organisation. So why...
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