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Why Employers Lose Unfair Dismissal Claims – Even When They Think They’re Right
08/07/2026
Self-Care for HR: Why Looking After Yourself Matters Too
11/05/2026
Recognising Narcissistic Abuse in the Workplace
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Why Employers Lose Unfair Dismissal Claims – Even When They Think They’re Right
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Self-Care for HR: Why Looking After Yourself Matters Too
Self-Care for HR: Why Looking After Yourself Matters Too HR professionals spend so much time looking after everyone else that [...]
Recognising Narcissistic Abuse in the Workplace
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How to build a culture to attract and retain
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Navigating the Future of Work – Trends, Challenges and What Comes Next
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Recruitment: Review of 2024 and predictions for the industry in 2025
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Time-Saving Recruitment Tips
As an HR or hiring manager, your time is precious. Efficient time management can significantly impact your productivity and the [...]
Building a Diverse and Inclusive Recruitment Strategy
At Vanilla Recruitment, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is the cornerstone of a successful business. A workplace [...]
How to save time and money on recruitment
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Amid the peaks and troughs of running a business, you’re sure to experience staffing issues. From sickness, maternity leave and [...]
AI in Recruitment: A Double-Edged Sword
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Workplace Complacency: Combat the silent threat to productivity and growth
Workplace Complacency: Combat the silent threat to productivity and growth In our previous posts, ‘Your guide to the great talent [...]
Retaining Your Most Valued Employees
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8 Ways your job interviews will totally put that candidate off
8 ways your job interviews will totally put that candidate off With the candidate driven recruitment market we are in, [...]
The Great Talent Hunt
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HR Talent across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland
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The Commodity of Time: Navigating Work Relationships from COVID to 2024
The evolving nature of work from the COVID-19 era to 2024 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept [...]
A Comprehensive Guide to Recruiting HR Talent
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Refreshing Your Approach to Talent Acquisition
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How to Recruit the Best HR Staff: A Guide for Employers
Recruiting the best HR staff is critical! In the dynamic landscape of today's business world, the role of Human Resources [...]
Meet our Recruitment Resourcer – Emily!
About Me! Hello, my name is Emily and I have been working at Vanilla Recruitment since July 2021 as a [...]
Company Policies – Domestic Abuse
What responsibility do companies have in dealing with domestic abuse? Domestic abuse is topic that nobody wants to talk about. [...]
Cost of living crisis – The impact on employees
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Cost of living crisis – What can employers do to help
What can employers do to help with the cost of living crisis? The last few years have been challenging for [...]
Creating a Safe Workplace Post Covid-19
8 key considerations for creating a safe workplace with the easing of covid-19 restrictions While many welcome the easing of [...]
Menopause policy in the workplace
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Impact of menopause in the workplace
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Menopause in the workplace
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How should companies respond to employees suffering from anxiety and depression?
Responding to employees suffering from anxiety and depression For many companies navigating through issues of mental health in the workplace [...]
How responsible are employers for their employee’s wellbeing?
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Managing Employees with Anxiety and Depression – Where to start?
Managing employees post pandemic Coming out of the pandemic, many people are suffering from anxiety and depression. It’s been 18 [...]
What’s the role of HR in diversity and inclusion?
What is the role of HR? As many companies start to realise the importance of diversity and inclusion and put [...]
Can flexible working work for your business?
Flexible working - can it work for your business? In 2020, as a result of the pandemic, the Government required [...]
Returning to the Workplace following COVID-19
COVID-19 - A guide on how to return to the workplace This guide was created by Harwood HR Solutions. You [...]
What benefits do employees actually want?
What benefits do employees actually want? In the past year especially there has been a distinct shift away from traditional [...]
What are common pitfalls with employee benefits?
What are common pitfalls with employee benefits? In a recent webinar with financial adviser Gareth Carroll, we asked what some [...]
Why are employee benefits important?
Why are employee benefits important? Often when you start to have the conversation about employee benefits, there isn’t a great [...]
What matters most? How you think or how you act?
What matters most? How you think or how you act? This is an interesting question, and the majority of people [...]
Should Recruiters worry about where a candidate lives?
Should Recruiters worry about where a candidate lives? Someone once said “you live where you want to but you work [...]
How to get out of a slump and into success
How to get out of a slump and into success Have you ever noticed how when things start going wrong [...]
Why what you value influences your success
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How to engage employees during the recruitment process
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9 Questions you need to ask a Recruitment Agency
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Returning to work after illness or injury
How should I present time off work for injury or illness on my CV? According to the health and safety [...]
Why do some people achieve more than others?
Why do some people achieve more than others? For some business owners this can be a real frustration. An employee [...]
What do your employees need most right now?
What are the 5 things your employees need most now? Just when we thought that the crazy year that was [...]
How Brexit may affect your hiring in 2021 – and what to do about it!
How Brexit may affect your hiring in 2021 - and what to do about it! With trade talks between the [...]
Why should I use an agency? Direct Hire vs Using an Agency
Direct Hiring vs Using an agency – which is right for your business? Why should you use an agency? We [...]
Benefits of Hiring a Temporary Worker
The benefits of hiring temporary workers For many businesses the next 6 months are still quite daunting, however, others in [...]
Join the Business Growth Community
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Join the HR Huddle
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Lockdown Support
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Cost of a counter-offer
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Boosting Employee Experience and Morale
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Top Tips on Culture Change
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How to get the bounce-back factor
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Benefits of working in an office
What are the benefits of working in an office? There’s certainly no doubt that over the last few months we [...]
Flexibility in the workplace
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Benefits of offering business mentoring
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Coronavirus Economic Recovery Plan
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How to avoid survivor syndrome
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Permanent flexible working
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How and why we need to prepare for a second wave
How and why we need to prepare for a second wave As of Monday 13th, many of the remaining businesses [...]
Build Back Better
A successful return to work strategy for your staff Many of us are looking at helping employees get back to [...]
Managing the mental health of your employees
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How to remain positive and occupied during the lockdown
My tips on keeping positive and occupied during lockdown I hope you are safe and well and doing the very [...]
Coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme
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Can employers force you to go back to work after lockdown
When lockdown is eased what rights do you have regarding going back to work? As an employee can you be [...]
Vanilla’s 2020 Salary Survey for the East Midlands
Welcome to Vanilla’s 2020 Salary Survey for the East Midlands What are the going rates of pay in the East [...]
How to virtually onboard new employees
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Vanilla’s 10 Tips for Working from Home
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Remote recruitment: A day in the life of a work from home recruiter
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How to Conduct an Effective Virtual Interview
Top tips to conduct an effective virtual interview How to Conduct an Effective Virtual Interview As companies everywhere are forced [...]
Engaging your remote workforce
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Lockdown life: Dog grooming and surviving homeschooling
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Candidate and job seeker advice during the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak
Candidate and job seeker advice during the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak Has the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus affected your work, employment or [...]
Client and business advice during the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak
Client and business advice during the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak Has the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus affected your business, workload, employees or [...]
Vanilla’s response and work plans throughout the COVID-19 outbreak
Vanilla's response and work plans throughout the COVID-19 outbreak How will the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus effect Vanilla Recruitment and the [...]
How to keep your staff happy over the Christmas holidays
How to keep your staff happy over the Christmas holidays Does your business stay open over the festive period? Well [...]
Your Culture Will Make or Break Your Business
Your Culture Will Make or Break Your Business Failures of culture from Wells Fargo to Volkswagen have been the single biggest destroyers of value [...]
The Case for Doing Nothing – Stop Being so Busy, and Just do Nothing
The Case for Doing Nothing - Stop Being so Busy, and Just do Nothing Keeping busy? Running from place to [...]
What’s the true cost of absence in your Business?
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5 Reasons Why You Should Not Disregard ‘Older’ Candidates
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Vanilla’s 2019 Salary Survey for the East Midlands
Vanilla's 2019 Salary Survey for the East Midlands What are the going rates of pay in the East Midlands and [...]
What do employees value most about their careers?
What do employees value most about their careers? A CV-Library survey has revealed that more than half of the nation, [...]
How to Successfully Tap into the Part-time Talent Pool
How to Successfully Tap into the Part-time Talent Pool When there's a candidate shortage and great people are not readily [...]
How to Skim Read a CV Like a Pro
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How to build a strong employer brand to help recruit the best talent
How to build a strong employer brand to help recruit the best talent In years gone by, a great job [...]
Why do employees stay? How to build employee loyalty
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Employment Law – Interview Don’ts
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Why Recruitment Even Matters?
Why Recruitment Even Matters? If you already think this is a silly question, brilliant. But we just wanted to reiterate [...]
Health and wellbeing at work – CIPD improving mental health in the workplace
Health and wellbeing at work - CIPD improving mental health in the workplace We are always looking to the Chartered [...]
A Perfect Journey – Get Your Recruitment Process Built For Success
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Build an employee benefits package that people actually want
Build an employee benefits package that people actually want With a lack of people looking to change jobs, employers are [...]
Importance of Interview Feedback
Importance of Interview Feedback Interview feedback – contrasting perspectives We have a guest blog post to share with you. Our [...]
Mentoring – What is it?
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15 interview tips that really support your recruitment
15 Interview tips that really support your recruitment The people that you employ are such a crucial part of the [...]
GCSE Grade changes – What you need to know
GCSE grade changes - what you need to know A new grading system for GCSE exams in England was launched [...]
BLUE Monday
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GDPR – What you need to know
GDPR - what you need to know The rules governing how an individual’s data and online privacy is managed and [...]
Top 7 ways employers can help staff stay motivated at christmas
Top 7 ways employers can help staff stay motivated at Christmas When the Christmas period is upon us, many employees [...]
How can we help you?
How can we help you? At Vanilla we’ve partnered with 1000+ businesses since 2005 (and that number is growing all [...]
Temporary recruitment focus
Temporary Recruitment Focus The REC has reported that businesses are using temporary recruitment solutions more and more. With this in mind, we thought [...]
Reduce interview no shows – 5 Top tips
Reduce interview no shows - 5 top tips We know only too well how frustrating it can be when your [...]
Get your employee benefits package just right
Get your employee benefits package just right We have written quite a lot recently about how to combat the recruitment [...]
5 Things you can do to improve your recruitment
5 things you can do to improve your recruitment We've listed out our top 5 ways you can massively influence [...]
How to cope running a business in the summer
How to cope running a business in the summer Summer is a wonderful time of the year, but for many [...]
Time to rethink your interview style and go hybrid
Time to rethink your interview style and go hybrid When you interview do you use an unstructured style? It has [...]
Employing someone with autism
EMPLOYING SOMEONE WITH AUTISM Some of the children they work with have autism and although a lot of them won’t be [...]
Get employee engagement on your business agenda
Get employee engagement on your business agenda We’ve been keeping an eye on the work of Engage for Success. I don’t [...]
New survey finds job market increasingly candidate-driven
New survey finds job market increasingly candidate-driven A new set of survey results has been published by Vacancy Filler (suppliers [...]
How to keep staff motivated over christmas
How to Keep Staff Motivated over Christmas With the Christmas period upon us, many employees will be thinking about winding [...]
The cost of a bad hire – Breaking bad habits
The cost of a bad hire - Time to start breaking bad habits You have a vacancy in your company [...]
Pre-boarding – Help keep your new recruit engaged
Pre-boarding – help keep your new recruit engaged We know that it's a very important part of your recruitment strategy [...]
How to write a job description
How to write an effective job description When businesses are recruiting they usually have an immediate or impending need for [...]
Working from home
Working from home Would you rather have the flexibility of working from home, than get a pay rise? Interestingly, the [...]
Job hoppers – Friend or foe?
Job hoppers – friend or foe? Employing a ‘job hopper’ is often something that businesses avoid. When someone’s CV shows [...]
4 Ways an employer can ruin a job offer
4 ways an employer can ruin a job offer Finding the ideal candidate to offer a job to, isn’t an [...]
3 Ways a candidate can ruin a job offer
3 ways a candidate can ruin a job offer Receiving a job offer after a long search (or even a [...]
2 Employer bugbears to avoid
2 employer bugbears to avoid We’ve been talking to some of our clients to get to the bottom of what [...]
9 Things that make good employees quit
9 things that make good employees quit If you want to keep hold of your best business asset - your [...]
A week in the life of a recruitment consultant
A week in the life of a recruitment consultant If you are considering a career in recruitment, or you’d like [...]
What an employer is looking for in your cv?
What an employer is looking for in your CV? When you’re applying for a job it’s fairly easy to understand [...]
