Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Employing & managing staff
Keeping talented graduates in your company for the long haul can be a big benefit to your business. Kevin Chamberlain explains how engagement is key and how employee recognition schemes can help.
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SME owners are skeptical about the value of a university education when taking on staff, research finds.
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The number of graduates choosing to work for themselves after university, as opposed to becoming employees, has nearly doubled in the past year, a study finds.
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The number of graduates fresh out of university choosing to work for themselves, rather than becoming employees, has more than doubled in the past year, finds research.
Business management
Tom Hickman founded graduate coaching business The Bridge after struggling to find talented young staff for a previous company. SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to him about his efforts in starting up.
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Small business owners are turning their backs on the graduate employee market and instead choosing to hire school leavers and other non-graduates.
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Degree holders earned an average of £12,000 a year more than non-graduates over the past decade, research finds.
Employing & managing staff
Attracting the best graduate to your company is easier if you show an understanding of their journey from higher education to workplace.
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Employers could be faced with a disillusioned workforce of new graduates, warns the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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UK students are to get a helping hand from a scheme announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown in his pre-Budget report that aims to get more graduates to start their own businesses.
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