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Vacancy: Information Management Consultant

We are working with a leading IT provider and award-winning Symantec solutions specialist who are looking to recruit an experienced Information Management Consultant to join their growing team. Our client is a ‘service-centric’ organisation, delivering Master Partner services since 2001, with a portfolio that includes: Consultancy, Managed and Support Services, Training, solutions, all based on ‘best in class’ products, providing Information Management and Availability. The role of Information Management Consultant requires in-depth knowledge and experience of Enterprise Vault Archiving, Clearwell eDiscovery and Symantec Data Protection solutions. This role will provide direction in the design, implementation and support of projects to our client’s customers.

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Vacancies

Vacancy: IT Business Development Manager

We are working with a leading IT provider and award-winning Symantec solutions specialist who are looking to recruit an experienced and energetic Business Development Manager to join their growing team. Having more than doubled their revenue recently and with enterprise customer opportunities increasing at a greater rate – this role will play a key part in continuing to drive this success! Do you have limitless energy and love the thrill of the sale? Are you inspired to bring new and creative ideas to the enterprise IT services market? Then this could be the next career challenge you are looking for.

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Outsourced HR Services, Recruitment

We’re not just all about roundabouts and concrete cows…

On the 19th January 2015 The Times featured an article about Milton Keynes “4 roundabouts per square mile, 20 million trees and one of the largest shopping malls in the world. The Enigma Code was cracked there, it has 17 ponds containing the rare great crested newt and 6 famous concrete cows in its centre” ….but that’s not all….Milton Keynes is famous for something else this week! One of the highest spurts in recruitment in the country!

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Coaching, Recruitment

Truth or myth that the average cost of making a poor recruitment decision is between £9,000 and £15,000? Breakthrough2Performance challenges this average by putting it to the test.

Last July we asked “Would you make a major purchase without researching it first? Would you make a major purchase from someone you didn’t know……?” This article referred to your recruitment decisions, one of the most important and costly decisions you can make in business. It is estimated the average cost of making a poor recruitment decision is on average between £9,000 and £15,000. At Breakthrough2Performance we would like to challenge this average and put it to the test! It’s not just the tangible £’s that we should be counting – what about the intangible often overlooked costs?

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Coaching, Recruitment

What is your BAFO?

Company jargon is awash with ways of positively describing organisational change and challenges with words such as transition, transformation, right-sizing, best and final offer – but what about our employees – often the descriptions used are far from positive….

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Remuneration

Is your salary freeze defrosting?

There’s been lots in the news recently about salaries and pay awards. The Banking sector has been in the news again, it was reported that Barclays has put aside some £900m to cover potential claims for miss-sold PPI. Currently a substantial chunk of Bankers remuneration is paid as bonus. Reports are that going forward a proportion of this award may be ‘held back’ for a period of up to 7 years and potentially ‘clawed back’ if the employee is subsequently found responsible of recklessness or negligence – even if the money has already been spent! Do we think this is fair? Could this lead to us losing talent in the UK in favour of employees transferring to other Banks in other countries across the world?

 
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