An Adaptive Workforce: Event Planners / Coordinators
An Adaptive Workforce: Event Planners / Coordinators In this addition to our series “An Adaptive Workforce”, we are looking into the skills and characteristics possessed by event planners and coordinators. The coronavirus breakout across the world brought an end to months, and in some cases, years worth of planning of events. Music events, business exhibitions, […]
Understanding The Potential Of Your Workforce
Understanding The Potential Of Your Workforce The importance of potential has been paramount to human development for many years. As such it has been intensely studied from multiple different angles ranging from potential effects of someone’s personality, intelligence or even how likely someone is at achieving a certain task or role. A Famous quote by […]
How to Align Employee Values and Company Culture
How to Align Employee Values and Company Culture A values assessment is important to ensure each part of an organisation is working towards the same goals. To do this we use an innovative assessment – Match V. Match V is a values assessment designed to measure a candidates values and their fit to the company […]
An Adaptive Workforce: Hospitality
An Adaptive Workforce: Hospitality In March 2020 the hospitality industry was one of many to be rocked by the outbreak of the coronavirus across the world. Soon after the initial outbreak of the coronavirus in the UK, followed a national lockdown that saw much of the hospitality industry forced to close. Even upon reopening several […]
An Adaptive Workforce: Travel
An Adaptive Workforce: Travel The impact of Covid has been devastating for many job sectors, but perhaps none more than the travel sector. Back in August 2020 the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) stated that more than 39,000 people had already lost their jobs, or been told their job was at risk. This equates […]
An Adaptive Workforce: Retail
An Adaptive Workforce: Retail Welcome to the first of a new series we are calling “An Adaptive Workforce”. In this series of blogs we will be writing about different workforces and the industries their skills and transfer of training are best matched to. This week, we are starting with retail. The retail industry has been […]
Openness
Openness Openness is the final personality trait of the Big Five personality theory (to read the others, please click the respective link: Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, Extraversion). Openness explores to what degree does an individual yearn for inner experiences, essentially, emotional experiences that occur within ourselves. These sorts of experiences can be created within ourselves through our own imagination, […]
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Recruitment Industry
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Recruitment Industry Covid-19 and the Recruitment Industry In 2019, the recruitment industry in the UK reached a turnover of £38.9 billion. Adapting and maintaining growth despite the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and in the 3 months up to February 2020, the employment rate reached a record 76.6%. Then Covid-19 happened, […]
Agreeableness
Agreeableness Agreeableness is one of the five personality traits of the Big Five personality theory; it looks at how an individual interacts with other people. A person with high scores on the Agreeableness scale is trustworthy, generous, honest and open. They are drawn to other people and are constantly prepared to help them and be […]
Extraversion
Extraversion Extraversion is one of the five personality traits of the Big Five personality theory; it looks at how outgoing or social a person may be. A person who scores high in this scale will be very outgoing, enjoy social gatherings and probably be the life of the party. On the other hand, someone who […]