Welcome to the tenth edition of NES Process, where you can read associate director, Sarah Taylor's industry overview, as well as our latest news, immigration advice update, career management tips and apply for our latest jobs. We hope you enjoy this edition of the newsletter. If you would like to submit articles for future issues or have any comments about this edition, contact us now at newsletters@nes.co.uk
CONTENTS:
Process engineering: the current climate
NEWS: NES widens access to global talent pool
NEWS: Process recruitment team expands
NEWS: Featured clients go down a storm
GLOBAL CANDIDATE PIPELINE: an update
YOUR CAREER: Business networking
NES web site in focus: the document library
TOP 10 TIPS...for recruiting the best team
...and, of course, our latest process vacancies!
Process engineering: the current climate
Welcome to issue ten of NES Process. Before you scroll down to our latest news, career management tips and the most recent process vacancies, I’d like to give you a brief overview of the industry, providing a little more information about the outlook for technical and engineering professionals within the process industry.
While there have been many reports about a growing preference for temporary or contract work in light of economic turbulence, the permanent market - as far as we are concerned - can be best described as booming, from graduate level right through to senior management level. This is in contrast to the employment fears within many sectors currently and is excellent news from a job security perspective for those who favour permanent positions...read more.
NES NEWS ROUND UP
NES widens access to global talent pool
NES has announced the appointment of a new multilingual recruitment consultant, Gabriela Boczkowska to further develop its global candidate pipeline service.
Widening access to the global talent pool Gabriela, originally from Poland, will work with white-collar technical and engineering personnel seeking work in the UK...read more.
Process recruitment team expands
Specialist technical and engineering recruitment firm, NES, has announced the appointment of a new recruitment consultant to its process division within the largest part of its group, NES UK.
Simon Kocinski has acquired specialist engineering recruitment experience since graduating with a degree in Law last year and joins the NES headquarters in Manchester...read more.
Featured clients go down a storm
Specialist gas-to-liquids firm, CompactGTL, is the latest company to become a featured client on the NES web site.
The section, which is a popular feature of the recently revamped site, gives jobseekers the opportunity to find out about companies of interest, with a company overview and list of current vacancies displayed together with the logo of each organisation...read more.
GLOBAL CANDIDATE PIPELINE: an update
The main function of the Immigration Advisory Service is to provide assistance for the placement of non-EU candidates where NES was previously unable and unauthorised to do so.
Registration with the Office of Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC), the government body that regulates all immigration advisers in the UK, allows NES to conduct this service professionally and within the law.
Recent changes to the immigration system in the UK have placed additional responsibilities upon both employers and recruitment agencies, which must ensure that an individual is eligible to work in the UK and be able to provide evidence that all reasonable checks have been made to this effect...read more.
YOUR CAREER: Business networking
We all know the type of situation that springs to mind when someone mentions “networking” - an assortment of suited individuals gathering together to swap business cards, right? That vision of a bustling function room can be enough to provoke a fluttering feeling in the stomach of even the most confident individual; which is probably why the value of networking is so often underestimated - despite this being a somewhat restricted view of what it actually involves...read more.
NES web site in focus: document library
The library section of the NES website is something you’re unlikely to find on other recruitment agency websites. A considerable amount of time and resources have been invested into creating this section, which contains a wealth of information including: details of NES advertising campaigns; a series of career management articles; tax & legislation information and; downloads such as the latest company brochures and copies of NES terms & conditions...read more.
TOP 10 TIPS...for recruiting the best team
Hiring the best team members is one of the biggest worries for managers and there are many considerations that should be taken into account. Read on for our top 10 tips:
1. Attract the right applicants to the role:
Sounds obvious, right? But it is essential that you don’t underestimate this important part of the recruitment process. Ensure that your vacancy advertisement, job specification and person specification are carefully assembled, attracting only the most suitable applicants and discouraging those without the necessary skills and qualifications from applying...read more.
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