The UK is showing signs that it is on the road to recovery from the recession as the amount of people claiming unemployment benefit in June dropped by a massive 21k.

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The morning of a job interview can be very nerve racking; you spend most of the time dashing around trying to make sure that you’re looking your best and have prepared answers to all the questions that they might throw at you. Especially if you really want the job, then there even more pressure! So, to get you in the right mind set, I have put…

A lot of our clients ask us, ‘What’s the big deal with LinkedIn and how can I use it for recruitment?’ 

So here you go! LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the World with over 187,000,000 members and the platform is continuing to grow at a rate of 2 new members every second. Over a million of these users are in the UK so it makes sense for both companies and recruiters alike to be on there too.

As a brief guide to being successful as a company or recruiter on…

Yorkshire based online recruiter Blue Octopus have done it again! They have managed to win the ‘The Creative Offline Marketing Award 2013’ by a recruitment supplier.

The awards ceremony was held at the contemporary Grange St. Paul’s Hotel in London’s West End on 21st March. It began at 7.00pm with a Champagne reception and the representatives of Blue Octopus…