How Lily Shippen is different from other agencies.
We care about what we do. […]
How to stay focused and positive after a bad day at work.
We’ve all had those days or weeks when work feels like an uphill battle. Your to-do list is as long as your arm; unexpected challenges arise, and everything that can go wrong, does. It’s easy to let a bad day/week at work bring us down, but it’s important to remember that setbacks are temporary. [...]
The Power of Employer Branding: Attracting Top Talent to Your Organisation
The power of effective employer branding and how it helps in attracting top talent to Your organisation. […]
Is it important to be honest in the workplace?
There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people, the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.” – Jon Hunstman. […]
What is the best career advice you have ever been given?
Ask this of anyone, and you are likely to get very different answers.Career advice, for most, starts in your teenage years, when your parents/guardians are desperately trying to keep you focussed on exams and the need for good grades. Let’s be honest, for most teenagers that conversation is the last thing they want to engage [...]
My Path to Recruitment
Starting out in retail management and pounding the shopfloor for more years than I care to remember, life was hard but satisfying. Once a retailer, always a retailer, or so they say...Hungry for more, having recruited for shop floor staff, the bug hit me when I was promoted into a role which included the recruitment [...]
A day in the life of a Recruitment Consultant.
A day in the life of me, Samantha Gillespie, Senior Principal Recruitment Consultant Extraordinaire at Lily Shippen! […]
Things you didn’t know about the Lily Shippen team.
At Lily Shippen, we pride ourselves on producing high-quality content that provides value to our fantastic clients and candidates. However, we also believe it's important for our network to get to know us on a more personal level. After all, we are more than just a recruitment business - we are a team of individuals [...]
Steps to a Speedy and Effective Hiring Process
In an increasingly competitive job market, having an effective hiring process is essential to ensure the successful onboarding of talented staff.We know that candidates have lots of choice. Combined with uncertainty and concern surrounding the cost-of-living crisis, it’s more important than ever to ensure your hiring process is fast and smart to ensure you can [...]
