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Bar jobs can be fun, earn money, learn skills, make friends. You can feel a ‘but’ coming on can’t you?! Yes and the ‘but’ is if you work in a bar you could be missing out on all sorts of other social events that you have been invited to! The solution? Sign up with a Recruitment Agency instead and you could find yourself earning more money AND having your weekends and evenings free! Typical Agency work could be as  a Driver’s Mate (loading and unloading, map reading etc), Van Driver, Warehouse work, office work etc etc, in fact the opportunities [...]

What an astonishing start for the new Government! The old people will freeze to death this winter whilst Starmer send Billions of ££££’s abroad in ‘foreign aid’ to countries richer than us and more Billions abroad for the climate change agenda. A lot of people feel cheated by the new PM. The public feel we should be ‘looking after our own’ before looking after anyone else and rightly so. We have a clear and present homelessness problem which Starmer and his colleagues think they can fix by making rules and regulations which ultimately just put investors off being landlords, the risk [...]

I often get asked this question by would-be drivers considering a career at the wheel of a Large Goods Vehicle (the correct terminology that replaced Heavy Goods Vehicle a few years ago). Driving a lorry is not the dead-end job many people would write it off as. Driving a truck can be enjoyable and can command a very good wage. I know many lorry drivers who enjoy the freedom of working largely on their own, deciding and planning routes themselves (sometimes this isn’t how Companies operate and a driver needs to adhere to pre-planned schedule). Driving can get lonely and [...]

So the UK faces a General Election on July the 4th. How will the looming election effect the labour market? How could different results effect the labour market in the longer term? Short term a lot of businesses are pausing hiring and taking a cautious, ‘wait and see’ approach. Sometimes this is good for the temp market as staff are still needed by employers but not on permanent contracts. It’s an unusual election in my opinion. It’s almost as if the Conservative Party want to hand the keys to 10 Downing Street on to Kier Starmer. Rishi Sunak, the multi-millionaire who [...]

This is an interesting article I came across today, do you think women have taken a hit to their earnings since the dark days of Government imposed ‘lockdowns’? Is this another negative thing about covid restrictions that hasn’t been discussed? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/27/women-less-likely-top-earners-lockdown-damages-equality/