Our top 5 tips to help you settle into your new job! Stay positive. Starting a new job can be daunting at times as it can often be a big step change in your working life. A new job will more than likely come with obstacles; you may not be fitting in as quickly as you hoped or maybe the overall role is completely different to what you had expected. But you need to ‘dig in’ and realise that
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Top 5 Steps to a Sucessful Job Search! Make sure you have the right resources that will enable your job search… Ensuring that you have the right resources when conducting your job search is essential. What tools, websites and agencies are you going to use? Firstly, what job boards are you going to be conducting your search on? There are plenty out there for example; Indeed Job Board, Reed Job Board, Total Jobs and not forgetting the Morgan
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A job interview is not just an opportunity for the employer to find out more about you, it is also an opportunity for you to find out more about the employer. By asking questions it not only helps you to gather more information about the role, it also allows you to impress the hiring manager. Read on to find out our top 5 questions to ask in an interview… What skills and experiences are you looking for in an ideal
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On the 1st April 2018 the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates will be increasing. Set up in 1998, National Minimum Wage is the hourly rate that employees under the age of 25 are entitled to. This varies dependent on the age of the employee and if they are on an apprenticeship scheme. National Living Wage is the hourly rate that all employees over the age of 25 are legally entitled to. The New Rates Affective from April
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You might know from previous blog’s that Morgan Jones have been spreading our MoJo message throughout Kent and London throwing our recruitment skills around since 2000. We have a fab team of enthusiastic guys who love the lime light, appearing at networking events and promoting Morgan Jones (and filling those all-important jobs of course!). But let’s not forget the ‘behind the scenes’ work that our fine lassies (sadly no lads at the moment) do back stage. The Number Crunchers!
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Recruiters only recruit for posted positions Not so, recruitment agencies have large databases full of candidates so before we advertise a role we will search our database. As a recruitment agency, our role is to find the right person for the roles our clients need to recruit for. In order to do this effectively, we have a selection of candidates with a variety of skills already registered and ‘interview ready’. So, when joining a recruitment agency you would usually
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Morgan Jones was started in 2000 by Julie-Ann Clarke. Julie-Ann had worked for many years previously in Recruitment and decided to ‘go it alone’ setting up in a very small premises in Broadstairs. The original plan was to only focus on Permanent Recruitment but her first client required a temporary HR Manager (which of course she successfully filled!). This meant that MJ soon became a fully-fledged Perm and Temp generalist agency.
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