So, the dust has settled on yet another fantastic annual PPMA Conference and Awards. We were delighted to celebrate with Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue as the recruitment campaign for their apprenticeship scheme took the award for Best Value for Money Recruitment Campaign.   We were thrilled to work with Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue on this…

Three quarters of us do other work when we’re in meetings, according to statistics published in the Harvard Business Review.   Worse, 90% of meeting attendees daydream whilst there.   Meetings probably eat up more time at work for senior leaders than any other activity, often resulting in a sense of frustration and time-wasted. But,…

Jobsgopublic have partnered with the National Housing Federation to better serve the UK housing sector with creative recruitment solutions.   Over the past two decades, Jobsgopublic have worked with a significant number of housing associations, and similar organisations, across the UK. Providing a range of advertising, marketing and software products and services, they have supported…

Pitching, creating and delivering compelling sales propositions, is something that private sector business leaders know all about. Pitches win business. And being good at pitching can mean the difference between staying profitable or heading into the red in what is an increasingly competitive world. But the skill of pitching does something else which is equally…

If someone asked you what your organisation was trying to achieve could you summarise it in the time it takes to go down a few floors in a lift – without being trite or bland? That’s the Lift Speech Challenge, a device designed to force us to focus on the core value proposition that drives…

There’s something very special brewing at Jobsgopublic HQ… and no, we haven’t entered the beer industry. As much as we’d love to see the local watering holes pouring cool crisp pints of Jobsgopublic IPA, it’s not really in our wheelhouse and we like to stick to what we know. With that in mind, we’ve been…

Those that have followed us over the past few years will know that the annual PPMA awards has become a night where we get to celebrate the achievements of the partnerships we’ve formed with our clients. For the fifth year in a row, we will have our fingers firmly crossed as it has been revealed…

Increasing numbers of councils are turning to commerce to close the financial gap opened up by austerity. Commercial thinking can be an anathema to staff steeped in a tradition and culture that shuns point-of-sale public service. But needs must. This is not just about learning to sell, although that will help. It’s about putting a…

On Thursday 1st February 2018, we hosted the most recent in our series of breakfast events in partnership with In-house Recruitment Network. The event ‘New Recruitment Trends with the Public Sector’ brought together HR and recruitment specialists from a wide range of organisations. As ever we combined expert speakers with round table discussions to provide…

If you’re looking to become a chief executive, you may be able to do it in three key steps according to the findings of a ten-year study reported in the Harvard Business Review. The authors, Elena Lytkina Botelho, Kim Rosenkoetter Powell and Nicole Wong, looked at 17,000 top executive assessments and studied 2,600 of these…