Blogs

Today I headed over to Werneth High School in Stockport and met (in person!) with the students in Year 10 at a really nice careers event. It was lovely to meet with you if you were there, really great questions and listening skills. You’re all an ...

This week we received the welcome news that Katy Humphries has passed her REC exams at Level 3. This is a course LiCa Scientific arranges for all new scientific recruitment consultants to complete shortly after joining with our industry body the R...

Here at LiCa we like to think we are ahead of the curve when it comes to what the chemical industry is doing.   Lately we have seen an increase in candidate applications from overseas and with that many of our candidates ask us for advice about ho...

  I’ve caught up with a few companies about how to improve packages and workplace experience this week.   One book that really inspired me to do this recently was Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules of life. I find that one chapter in this book applies to ...

Being new to recruiting has its advantages and disadvantages, and one of the main advantages that I have noticed is that I now know what it’s like on the other side of the desk. What a recruiter will look for and what some clients want to see in t...

Post Brexit Working in the UK   As we know the UK recently left the EU and for better or worse and it’s meaning changes to the Employment of people who aren’t UK Citizens. Some of which are people who might want to apply for jobs on our website.  ...

Blog 5 – The Product   How to Sell Brand:You   This aspect of job hunting is often overlooked for a few reasons which I want to initially confront head-on.   This is about how you position yourself in the job market, and how you want the job marke...

  I want to focus here on how to come across to the market. Which version of you are we going to see and what impact will that have on others.   I’ve felt for a long time we all have these little masks that we wear depending on where we are. I kno...

Over Christmas I read an incredible book by Bob Iger who has had more influence on popular culture and technology than I knew.   He is the CEO of Disney Corporation, was great friends with Steve Jobs and has overseen their acquisitions of Pixar, M...

Blog (2) – Blame Your Parents   My favourite scene in any film ever is halftime in ‘Any Given Sunday’. If you’ve seen the film, you know what I mean it’s Al Pacino, giving the greatest monologue in cinema.    When do you imagine he first got the s...