Like most sectors of the UK economy, the recruitment industry was hit hard by COVID-19 – as shaky business confidence and the furlough scheme meant companies simply weren’t hiring staff.

Asking for a pay rise at work can be terrifying. Now, with the cost of living crisis only deepening and inflation rising to a 40-year high of 9%, getting some extra cash out of your boss has never been more important.

Millennials have an 'inflated sense of entitlement', 'loath conflict' and require a different kind of management than older generations, according to a top recruitment boss.

Inflation in the year to March 2022 reached yet another 30-year high, with the consumer prices index (CPI) hitting 7%, prompting fresh fears that employees’ wages are not stretching far enough to cover the cost of living.

While many hoped the beginning of 2022 would see the end of the pandemic, instead it seems to have provided the start of the cost of living crisis. Millionaire businessman and current chairman of the InterQuest Group, Gary Ashworth, shared his insight on what might lie ahead and how consumers can stay afloat for the next 12 months.

While many hoped the beginning of 2022 would see the end of the pandemic, instead it seems to have provided the start of the cost of living crisis. Millionaire businessman and current chairman of the InterQuest Group, Gary Ashworth, shared his insight on what might lie ahead and how consumers can stay afloat for the next 12 months.

The best business leaders surround themselves with rebels and disrupters, not a board of sycophants. They realise that better business outcomes happen more often from conflict and radical debate than consistent agreement. Business heroes, artists and politicians often fail when they start to believe their own hype.

There are only three certain things in life: death, taxes, and encountering difficult people. However, we often don’t merely encounter difficult people; we have to find a way to manage them. 

If you assemble the ingredients of a fast-growing company: an affable management team, ultra-low interest rates, skilled corporate finance advisers, and a sprinkling of testosterone-fuelled buyers whose coffers are overflowing with cash and then light the blue touch paper, it’s not surprising that the ensuing auction or Initial Public Offering (IPO) can often get out of hand.