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Recruiting Internationally?

Collingwood Search & Selection Ltd provides headhunting and advertising led selection services to recruit specialist and senior level roles throughout the UK and Europe.

Their consultants have extensive experience of headhunting in a broad range of industries in the Manufacturing and Service sectors. Collingwood partners organisations ranging from SME's to global corporations to recruit across all business disciplines including sales, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, research and development, human resources and general management.

Collingwood – 2010 Charity Event

The Collingwood team have set the wheels in motion and is gearing up for their summer charity event.

In February the team met with Rachel Jones the official fundraiser for Hope House Children's Hospices.

Ensuring an effective recruitment process

Recruiting the right people is critical for the long-term financial success of your business. It is irrelevant how good your products and services are when long term they will not be effectively made, sold or delivered if you do not have highly skilled and energised people who can operate successfully in your company's culture.

Are we all going Continental?

Collingwood Search & Selection is reporting its busiest quarter ever in the final three months of 2009. Business is booming but, interestingly, it's all overseas.

As specialist headhunters, the team has been tasked by several UK based clients to help strengthen their continental operations.

So far the roles have been mainly located in France, Germany and Spain but Collingwood has recently accepted a commission to recruit in China too.

"We have plenty of global experience and frequently recruit around the world but a definite bias is emerging," said Doug Mackay, Collingwood's Managing Director.

Big money signings v Home-grown talent

When it comes to building a winning team, are you more of a Roberto Mancini than an Arsene Wenger? Do you believe in spending heavily to get the best players money can buy or do you nurture young talent in the knowledge that your investment will ultimately pay off?

It's a question more and more businesses are asking themselves as they consider their next moves to exit the recession on top.

"In my experience, companies are doing both," said specialist headhunter Doug Mackay, Managing Director of Collingwood Search & Selection Ltd.

2010 Charity Event - Collingwood looks ahead of the big freeze…

As the snow and ice grips the whole of UK, Collingwood has been planning its annual summer charity event.

Doug Mackay, Collingwood's Managing Director, announced earlier this week, "Our team enjoy giving something back through our annual charity events and have chosen another tough challenge for 2010" he explained,

"So far we have cycled the Manchester 100km Bike Ride and the Coast to Coast 140 miles for Cancer Research, walked for Christie's and last year successfully completed a Golf Marathon of 4 rounds in a day for Claire House Childrens' Hospice on the Wirral."

Catching big fish in a small pool

When long established businesses were asked at the start of the year for their top tips for surviving a recession*, diversifying products and customer base ranked among the top ten.

The companies questioned had one thing in common; they had traded their way through previous recessions and come out the other end.

They agreed that looking at ways to adapt or broaden the appeal of a product, or finding new markets, may be a way of maintaining and growing a business in hard times.

Sales growth triggers job creation for Collingwood

Despite the severe economic downturn endured by most during the last 18 months, Collingwood's reputation of finding "needles in haystacks" and its flexibility to adapt to client needs during the recession has reaped it rewards.

While many recruiters continue to moan about the tough market conditions, Collingwood has gone from strength to strength across the broad range of industries it supports. "Clients have suffered during the last 18 months and many have had to shed jobs", says Doug Mackay, Collingwood's Managing Director, "however there has still been a strong demand for high calibre sales and operations professionals who will add immediate value either through new customers in sales or through better efficiencies and cost reductions in operations."

A (board) room with a view

The frustrating commute to work is apparently still top of the list of daily stresses that office workers would happily ditch.

According to the not-for-profit organisation Work Wise UK, British workers have the second longest average daily commute in Europe which can add an entire working day each week.

"Add to this the misery, tension and delays of traffic congestion and overcrowding on trains, tubes and buses, and now the prospect of travelling to and from work in the dark for many months: it is no surprise that many succumb to depression and despondency," said Work Wise UK's Chief Executive, Phil Flaxton.

Collingwood Sponsors local Football Team

Following our successful Golf Marathon in July, which raised over £800 for our local Childrens' Hospice Claire House, Collingwood is delighted to announce the sponsorship of the Tarvin Under 7's Football Team.

Established for 10 years, Tarvin AFC has teams from Under 5's to Veterans playing in the Mid Cheshire League.

In all they coach over 250 players and have produced a number of School Boy Internationals.

On track for rail bonanza

It is widely expected that billions of pounds of contracts will soon be up for grabs after the Government revealed it is to invest heavily in Britain's rail links.

Rail projects worth an estimated £2.3 billion have been announced during the summer, including plans to electrify the Great Western main line and overhaul rail infrastructure throughout the English regions.
Collingwood's rail specialist Daniel Frost expects stiff competition for those prized contracts that will undoubtedly create jobs and wealth well into the future.

While news of the investment was tempered by Network Rail's plans to cut 1,800 maintenance jobs, it remains certain that contracts of this magnitude will be much sought after by all those associated with the sector.

Rising from the Ashes?

A sudden climb in house prices, sales increases for car makers and even England winning the Ashes are all being credited in some small part for a record rise in confidence among business professionals.

Latest research by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) revealed that optimism among professionals in the third quarter hit its highest level since the start of the financial crisis two years ago.

At Collingwood Search and Selection Ltd, the typically quiet month of August has brought a bumper crop of companies seeking to retain them to fill a number of high calibre positions.

This surge in activity has led Managing Director, Doug Mackay, to agree with the ICAEW's findings.

Opportunity knocks and it’s not all hot air

The temperature has been steadily rising this week in the debate over climate change.

At the G8 Summit of world leaders in Italy, there were calls to turn climate change into a global opportunity; to stimulate the necessary investments in the green economy, creating new jobs and driving economic growth.

The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, summed up this ambition when he said: "Those who understand this today will be the winners of tomorrow.

Collingwood Completes Golf Marathon for Claire House raising over £800

Collingwood completed its Annual Charity Event recently, supporting the Wirral based Children's Hospice, Claire House. After Doug completed his Coast to Coast cycle ride and the Collingwood girls taking part in the Christie's Walk last year it was the turn of Chris Barker and Daniel Frost to come up with an idea for a Charity Event for 2009.

Are you ready for the revolution?

The internet is as vital as water and gas. Those were the words of Gordon Brown last month on the day the Government published its long awaited Digital Britain report.

The Prime Minister set out what those in the business already know - that the information and communications industries will be the strong arm to help lever Britain out of recession.

Writing in the Times, he predicted: Just as the bridges, roads and railways built in the 19th century were the foundations of the Industrial Revolution that helped Britain to become the workshop of the world, so investment now in the information and communications industries can underpin our emergence from recession to recovery and cement the UK's position as a global economic powerhouse.

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