by Verity Morish | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback”. I first heard this old Dutch saying about 5 years ago. And, of course, it is true. Trust is lost much faster than it is won. Building up trust is a bit like filling a piggy bank. You put little bits of loose change in...
by Verity Morish | Aug 24, 2022 | Employment Advice, Exit Interview
If there’s one factor in the Chiumento employee retention model that raises eyebrows it’s Love. On the surface that might sound a bit “soft and fluffy” but in reality, it’s often the glue that holds individuals and organisations together....
by Verity Morish | Aug 4, 2022 | Careers Advice
We spoke to our career coaches and concierges and asked them their top interview tips. From the responses we received we could easily have written an article titled, top 30 tips for a successful interview. However, there were a number of pieces of advice that came up...
by Verity Morish | Aug 1, 2022 | Exit Interview
If the number of ‘I’ve got a new job’ announcements I’m seeing on LinkedIn are anything to go by. Then the much-anticipated great resignation wave is real, and it is well and truly underway. But I wonder, how many of those recent leavers were given an exit interview,...
by Verity Morish | Jul 26, 2022 | Employment Advice
Retention is the hot topic at the moment, the great resignation wave is underway and understandably organisations are trying their best to hold on to their employees. However, with retention, there is no true quick fix. Yes, you could double everyone’s salaries, but...
by Verity Morish | Jul 19, 2022 | Outplacement
Offering outplacement to those staff impacted by redundancy isn’t just the right or nice thing to do, it also has many benefits for the organisation as a whole. While there are many more reasons than the three we mention below, these are what we consider our top...
by Verity Morish | Jul 15, 2022 | Outplacement
We have been helping people, of all levels, for over 25 years take the next step in their career. One thing we’ve learnt along the way is that it really isn’t a case of one size fits all when it comes to outplacement, this is especially true when helping those at the...
by Verity Morish | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a remote worker since I joined Chiumento in 2016 and I love it. Back then, pre-covid, I was certainly in the minority and was looked upon with envy and perhaps some suspicion by many of my peers. Remote/home/flexible working made my life infinitely better....
by Verity Morish | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Why is hiring so hard and so expensive right now? The numbers speak for themselves: Full employment is typically defined by economists as the point at which less than 5% of the workforce is unemployed. The UK unemployment figure is currently 3.9% there few, if any,...
by Verity Morish | Apr 26, 2022 | Employment Advice, Flexible Working, world of work
Over the past month I’ve seen and read, what appears to be, an increasing number of articles covering the more negative aspects of home/hybrid working. Now we’ve passed the 2-year anniversary of the big move to a more home/remote based working model are the...
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