Halecroft Recruitment, executive search and selection, has moved its head office to a prime location on Broomfield Lane, Hale. After a successful 4 years, exceeding growth targets, they have outgrown their current space. Halecroft MD Tricia Bull...

Whenever we go to networking events we seem to be asked where the name Halecroft comes from nearly as often as we are actually asked about recruitment. We are always happy to speak about our proud history, but business comes first, so we wrote t...

A recent survey by the non-profit health body UK active has found that the average UK worker now takes a 22-minute lunch break, down 33% from the 33 minutes that was reported in 2012. The main reasons given for this drop were an increase in work...

A recent study by Shortlister has shown that 30% of people in the UK who were interviewed have accepted their second-choice job purely because their first choice took too long to get in contact with them after the interview. The study also showe...

This week companies all over the country have been hosting events in support of Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. The Coffee Morning has been running each year since 1990 and in 2016 alone managed to raise £29.5 million!...

Every year Macmillan host The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. This is a great event for an even greater cause, raising money for one of the world’s foremost cancer support charities. This year we have decided to join in, but in true Hale fashion...

It has become a common joke that Christmas comes earlier and earlier every year, and nowhere is this truer than in the business world. While the public may like to joke about how annoying they find hearing about Christmas in September, they don’...

A common question in the recruitment industry is “When is the best time of the year to hire a quality candidate?” The majority of answers to this question tend to advise that January is the best month to find top candidates. This makes sense on ...

The digital sector has been one of the fastest growing industries for a long time now, but this increase in demand has lead to an increase in competition. With such a rise in the number of people applying for the same jobs, it is now important t...