The GR Blog

Practical steps to scale-up your business while keeping your team happy

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with the MD of a fast-growing MSP in Manchester who was at a bit of a crossroads. Business was thriving, new contracts were rolling in, and everything on the surface looked great. But behind the ....
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Unlocking Growth Without Losing Control

Running a growing business is both exciting and exhausting. If you’re an SME owner, you probably feel like you’re spinning endless plates—juggling sales, operations, finance, and recruitment, all while trying to grow. At some point, though, the workload becomes ....
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How long to spend and how many candidates to see

As an SME employer, recruitment is a challenge at the best of times. You’re balancing business as usual with the need to grow, and hiring can feel like just another task to tick off the list. So, when you find the right candidate and they tick all the boxes, ....
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Comparing Job Board Advertising: Cost, Reach, and Response Rates

Hiring the right candidate isn’t just about placing an advert and waiting for CVs to roll in. If you’re concerned by cost and challenged by a limited candidate pool, it’s crucial to ensure your job advertising budget is delivering the best ....
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Considering setting up an Apprenticeship Scheme?

It's National Apprenticeships Week #NAW2025 and 'How do we hire apprentices?' is still one of the more common questions we get asked by the employers we work with.

As recruiters, we're in constant conversations with SME ....
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Why HR and Recruiters are Moving Away from Traditional Applications to 'Blind', No-CV Recruitment Processes

A couple of weeks ago, we published an article about the rise in AI-generated CVs. We'd been having conversations with lots of my clients who were receiving a high volume of generic CVs that had ....
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Recognising AI-Generated CVs (and what to do about them)

We’ve had a lot of recruitment planning meetings with clients since the start of the year and one of the hot topics has been AI in recruitment. More specifically, the use of AI tools, like Chat GPT, to produce CVs and job applications – with questions ....
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Struggling to recruit and considering Temporary Hires?

This week, we've spoken to a couple of employers struggling to recruit permanent staff (in different sectors). Both seek the right mix of skills and culture fit, but the process is taking longer than expected, putting pressure on their existing teams. ....
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What we've been up to during the Coronavirus outbreak to support local businesses

Over the past few weeks, many of our existing clients have understandably put recruitment on hold whilst prioritising the unprecedented challenges faced by their businesses during the coronavirus outbreak.

Throughout ....
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Everything you need to know about Employing Temporary Workers via an Agency

If your business needs to rely on temporary workers via an Agency to provide flexibility and short-term cover to support staff absences or an unexpected peak in demand, we can help. If you’re not sure how to access temporary ....
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Are you ready to offer secure and compliant home-working in the next stage of preparedness for Coronavirus?

We are all facing an unprecedented period of uncertainty due to the global Covid-19 Coronavirus epidemic that is highly likely to have a major impact on UK business continuity as it has already across ....
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