Many charities avoid recruitment agencies altogether, and cost is usually the reason. A percentage fee on a senior appointment can scale into a number that is hard to justify against a tight budget, so the search stays in house instead. That often means a smaller pool of candidates, a longer [...]
Most agencies will not answer this question in public. Ask what an EA costs and you will usually get a call back, a discovery meeting, and a number three weeks later. Here is the honest version instead. Hiring an Executive Assistant on a salary of £55,000 will cost your business [...]
The moment you learn your EA is leaving is almost always the moment it is too late to do anything about it. A resignation feels sudden from the employer's side, but the decision behind it was usually made weeks or months earlier, quietly, while everything on the surface still looked [...]
Most businesses that come to us for salary benchmarking already believe they know the answer. They want the data to confirm what they've assumed for a while: that their pay is competitive, that the market hasn't moved much, and that any attrition they're seeing is down to something other than [...]
Most businesses don't set out to hire a Chief of Staff. They set out to hire a better EA. The job spec grows, the seniority bar rises, the salary climbs, and somewhere in that process the role quietly stops being an EA role at all. It just hasn't been renamed [...]
The headlines about the UK jobs market in 2026 have not been cheerful. Vacancies have fallen for more than two years, hiring across most sectors has cooled, and employers are being far more deliberate about every role they open. Against that backdrop, you might expect HR recruitment to have gone [...]
Hiring an Executive Assistant is one of the highest-leverage decisions a Manchester business can make. The right EA does not just lighten a leader's load. They protect their time, sharpen their focus, and quietly raise the performance of everyone around them. Get the hire right and it pays for itself [...]
The Chief of Staff is one of the most talked-about career moves in business support and operations right now. It is also one of the least understood, which makes sense, because the path into it is anything but standard. We speak with candidates about this role every week: experienced EAs [...]
The market for business support professionals has tightened this year. Vacancies have eased back and pay is working harder against the cost of living, which you have probably felt in one way or another. A shifting market, however, is exactly when the people who keep quietly investing in themselves pull [...]
Hiring a great EA or PA is only half the job. Knowing how to onboard them well is what determines whether that hire becomes one of the best decisions your business makes, or quietly unravels before it ever had a chance to land. Business support roles are uniquely relational. When [...]
