by Tricia | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, News
We’ve teamed up with The Growth Hub to bring you one of our ever popular Straight Talking Seminars! In this highly practical, interactive and inspirational workshop David Tovey, author of ‘Principled Selling’ and Tricia Hay, MD of First Base Employment will show you... 
by Tricia | Apr 3, 2019 | Mental Health, Employee Engagement, Blog
Wellbeing at work isn’t a new concept but it is certainly on the agenda of many employers we speak to about their recruitment requirements. It’s increasingly important to the candidates who approach us well – many ask us to seek out those employers with a... 
by Tricia | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog
One of the most frequent questions candidates tell us they have difficulty answering is “Where do you see yourself in five years?” No interviewer really expects candidates to be able to describe EXACTLY what they will be doing 260 weeks from now. So why do... 
by Tricia | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog
A waste of time, stressful, outdated are just some of the descriptions we hear when we speak to clients and candidates about annual reviews. It seems many employers and employees don’t find the topic of the annual review very engaging. Yet, as we discussed in a recent... 
by Tricia | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog
Poor interview technique cost one technology company a lot of bad press recently when the CEO was accused of bullying a candidate. Beyond what appeared in the public domain, we are not privy to what actually happened. But sadly we do get to hear first-hand some pretty... 
by Tricia | Mar 11, 2019 | General
We have teamed up with Forest Green Rovers to support the great work they do throughout their community initiative with young people. Every year, FGR recruit a team of new young ambassadors who promote the club and get the message out about all the things they do on... 
by Tricia | Mar 10, 2019 | Mental Health, Blog, Job Seekers
So how does your ‘master’ to do list look? Does it include a never-ending list of job deadlines, parenting responsibilities and domestic chores? The reality is that working parents have a seemingly endless and ever-growing to-do list or even multiple to-do lists. No... 
by Tricia | Mar 10, 2019 | Blog
The team at First Base undertake hundreds of recruitment interviews on behalf of employers every year. Well qualified people too often let themselves down by failing to prepare for the questions they should expect to be asked. Often the most stumbled over and feared... 
by Tricia | Feb 20, 2019 | Blog
We get to hear a lot about the stress people experience at work. It is often the real reason they approach us to help them with a career change in the first place. By then stress has gone far beyond what is healthy. Most people are all too familiar with workplace... 
by Tricia | Feb 5, 2019 | Blog
Question: When is punctuality important at a job interview? Answer: Always! If you want to get off to a good start and earn some positive points at an interview, being punctual is absolutely vital. “Punctuality is a fundamental business courtesy that demonstrates you... 
by Tricia | Feb 4, 2019 | Mental Health, Blog
Businesses rely on having a healthy and productive workforce. Conditions like anxiety, depression and long term excessive stress are experienced by one in six British workers each year. Over the past five years, employers have repeatedly cited stress as the number one... 
by Tricia | Feb 4, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Blog
It is clear from our own experience of placing thousands of individuals into jobs with hundreds of organisations, that employee engagement has a major influence on business success. Today, the challenge is twofold: Attracting the right people: UK unemployment rates...
