This year, the Mental Health Foundation is putting the spotlight on anxiety for their annual awareness week. As part of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, we have put together some tips to help prevent or reduce the level of anxiety. Anxiety is a normal response to challenging situations. However, a recent Mental Health Foundation… Read More »
Siamo Training Insight: Celebrating Skills Support for the Workforce Success
Our training division, Siamo Training, has been – and continue to be – committed to partnering with businesses to provide bespoke training and skills development packages for their employees. Along with the apprenticeship training that we continue to provide, over the last 4 years, our training division has had the pleasure of delivering Skills Support… Read More »
2023 Recruitment and Employment: Labour Shortages, the Spring Budget, Q2 results and beyond
There continues to be a labour shortage in the UK market, and, while job vacancies have fallen for the ninth consecutive three-month period, they still remain very high. Unemployment is very low, but there are still a vast number of people who are economically inactive, and this fact – in-part – underpinned Jeremy Hunt’s Spring… Read More »
Re-shifting the recruitment landscape: Embracing a multi-generational workforce and resisting unconscious bias
Increasingly, over-50 candidates are becoming alienated from the recruitment market. And, with the Chartered Management Institute finding that just 42% and 18% of managers are open “to a large extent” to hiring candidates between 50-64 and over 64, respectively, it is easy to see why. The consequence? A disenchanted section of the candidate market, and… Read More »
Tips for standing out in the job market
The job market is becoming increasingly saturated. With more candidates from Gen Z entering the market each year, along with a number of cutbacks in 2022 leading to existing employees re-entering circulation, it can be difficult to know how to stand out. Here are some of our tips… Do your research We’ve all heard the… Read More »
Siamo Training Awarded Accreditation For 12th Year in a Row!
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Matrix accreditation for the 12th year running! Their assessment took place from 28 February – 1 March, and involved interviewing staff, learners, employers and partners that we work with during our training delivery. The aim of the assessment was to determine the extent to… Read More »