Lily Shippen Recruitment Agency | Making a CV stand out

According to theundercoverrecruiter.com, a recruiter will receive a minimum of 54 CV’s for a UK vacancy and will spend an average time of 10 seconds deciding whether or not to shortlist your CV. I can definitely vouch for these statistics and after analysing our recent job report this morning, I discovered that our average is [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:19+00:00November 8, 2017|Blog|

Why Manchester really is the place to be

You may have seen that we have recently expanded and opened a Manchester office.  We will continue to place the highest calibre of secretarial candidates into multiple sectors as we have done in London for the past year and a half. The reason for this is not only because I myself am Manchester born and [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:19+00:00November 1, 2017|Blog|

Tips for a successful telephone interview

Picking up the phone to interview potential candidates is much more common than it used to be. Phone interviews are beneficial to both parties – they save time and money.  If a company or recruiter want to find out more about a candidate, they’ll probably use a telephone interview as a starting point and decide [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:20+00:00July 4, 2017|Blog|

Tips For a Successful Phone Interview

Picking up the phone to interview potential candidates is much more common than it used to be. Phone interviews are beneficial to both parties – they save time and money.  If a company or recruiter want to find out more about a candidate, they’ll probably use a telephone interview as a starting point and decide [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:20+00:00July 3, 2017|Blog|

Why use a Recruitment Agency as a candidate?

Last month we published our blog ‘Why use a Recruitment Agency to hire?’ which focused on how agencies, such as ours, can help companies in their search for the perfect candidate. This month we are taking the opposite approach with our blog and looking at how a recruitment agency can benefit secretarial support professionals with their [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:20+00:00March 14, 2017|Blog|

Lily Shippen Recruitment | Why use a recruitment agency as a candidate

Last month we published our blog ‘Why use a Recruitment Agency to hire?’ which focused on how agencies, such as ours, can help companies in their search for the perfect candidate. This month we are taking the opposite approach with our blog and looking at how a recruitment agency can benefit secretarial support professionals with their [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:20+00:00March 14, 2017|Blog|

How to negotiate a pay rise

With a lot of companies announcing bonuses at this time of year, especially within Financial Services, it’s also a good time to approach the dreaded conversation of a pay rise. We spoke to several Personal Assistants’ and Team Assistants’ in London and Manchester and a large proportion of them said that they would feel uncomfortable [...]

2025-09-02T09:07:21+00:00February 9, 2017|Blog|
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