Case studies

Meaning: A job that no one is doing and is therefore available for someone new to do

Many of our vacancies are brought to us from clients we have spent years building relationships with, so obviously we want the correct candidate for each role.

We spend a lot of time with our clients, getting extensive knowledge of their company and the roles they wish to fill within their business. This make us stand out from many other recruiters

We understand the cost of having a vacancy for our client. And also the weight of the decision for a candidate to leave their current employer.

We specialise in many areas including Building Services, Audio Visual, Fire & Security, BMS, Telecoms...

Job roles vary from Electricians, Surveyors, Plumbers, Admin, Contract workers.

Its not just about filling a vacancies. It's about putting the right candidate in front of the right employer

Tel: 01254781300
Web: www.serlimited.com

Your Career, Your Future,
Your Choice.

Here at SER we value our staff and their ongoing development. We believe this sets us apart from other recruitment companies

As well as running regular in house training programs, to keep our recruiters up to speed with what our clients and candidates want and expect from us. We also promote and fund out of office education, training and personal development

John-Paul, Office Manager at SER, has recently completed ILM Level 3 certificate in Leadership & Management, which involves several modules including "innovation & change in an organisation" and "how to lead effective meetings"

Leah from our accounts department has also recently completed Foundation Certificate in Accounting with Distinction and is now moving forward, onto Advanced Diploma in Accounting at Blackburn University. This will give her a greater understanding of her role within SER and enable her to be able to deal with client and candidate enquiries, in an efficient and competent way

 These and future courses help our staff to continue their on going personal development and promotes confidence and knowledge within their sectors

Have you read our website? You will see there is some text about where unicorns live – if you have you will know where this is going, if you haven't you will be thinking we have lost the plot?

What does a question that was asked by a 5 year old girl have to do with recruitment and how SER provides its services.
Well the answer is in the question itself and your reaction to it. We challenge the norm and push for the unorthodox. We do this with a smile on our faces and a real belief that we are the only ones able to find you the very best solution.

The process starts with candidates, potentials, passives, People who have the right skills, those in your sector. Though engagement via social media and providing insightful and useful media we make them aware of us. We then make sure that we build on that engagement.

Its here that you come in, we start to work with you and understand your requirements both ability and attitude wise. We then simply take your brand and our understanding to our engaged and then let the clever stuff happen.

Job boards, CV Databases, online advertising, yes we still get involve to a degree in this old hat trade of first come first served, but our main focus is inbound marketing.

As stated before we are not the typical recruiter, so don't expect typical results, but do continue to ask the question, where do Unicorns live?

Tel: 01254781300
Web: www.serlimited.com

Your Career, Your Future,
Your Choice.

Time is an all important factor in recruitment.
The time it takes to search for a new job.

The time it takes for an employer to make up their mind about you.
The time you could be spending doing something else.

But we are going to look at how you know its time to look for a new job:
• Is the thought of going to work every day filling you with dread?
• Do you feel like you are no longer being challenged?
• Is you work / life balance suffering?
• Do you feel there is no opportunity to progress?

These are just a few of the things you may be thinking and feeling and they could be big indicators that you are ready to move on.

Conducting a personal audit will help you identify where you are, where you want to be and what you need to do to get there. It may also make it clear about timescales for this. This is an invaluable tool that can really develop you and make sure that you know when the all important steps appear.

If you feel it is time to move on, get in touch with SER today – we can help you find that next step in your career.

Tel: 01254781300
Web: www.serlimited.com

Your Career, Your Future,
Your Choice.

Time and time again, SER state that we are recruitment specialists in the technical and engineering sectors, but what does that really mean?
The Oxford English Dictionary describes a specialist as a person or organisation who concentrates primarily on a particular subject, activity or entity; a person is highly skilled in a specific and restricted field.

Straight away from the definition, we can say that this is true of SER Limited.
Each of our consultants focuses primarily on a particular sector from our vertical markets, but not only that, we can claim the specialist title because of our experience. In what is our 10th year as a limited company, we have been successful in placing the right candidates in the right positions. We have built a reputation as more than a 'bums on seats' recruiter but as a specialist with knowledge of the industry that allows us to get it right.

Our consultants take time to get to know the candidates and clients they are working with and believe in building long-term, mutually beneficial relationships.
They are interested in and enjoy what they do. They know that recruitment and career changes can make a real difference to people's lives and their attention to detail is incredible.

Something else that marks people out as specialists is the way they communicate with people, and lets face it, recruitment is all about People. Our consultants listen carefully, understand candidate's requirements, understand job specifications and they take the time to respond to people in the most appropriate manner.

And finally, a key component of being a specialist is behaving like a professional: someone who acts with integrity, often multi-tasking, working accurately and calmly under pressure; someone who respects confidentiality; someone who is accountable and someone who can be trusted implicitly to always do the right thing without compromise.

That is what makes us a specialist, a combination of all these things.
If you would like our help looking for a new job, get in touch.

Tel: 01254781300
Web: www.serlimited.com

Your Career, Your Future,
Your Choice.

When you work in a niche industry, like the ones we operate within, the likelihood is that you know a lot of people who do a similar job to you, or other jobs that are in high demand.

SER operate within recruitment services and as we mentioned for the letter P, everything we do is about people.

We have helped lots of people on their way to a better future, and we can help other too.

Help us to help people you know, people you have met and people you were working with change their futures too.

If a better future for your friends and family isn't reward enough, it can be helped by knowing you will receive £250 compliments vouchers from us.

All you need to do is introduce us to someone who could be interested in one of our vacancies.
Of course there are a few T & C's – there always are, but introducing them is a step in the right direction.
Contact us today to make that referral

Tel: 01254781300
Web: www.serlimited.com

Your Career, Your Future,
Your Choice.

SER Ltd are pleased to announce the welcome return of Ric Belsten. After a brief spell away from recruitment Ric h has returned to SER Ltd to join our growing team of specialist recruiters working within the Fire and Security sector.

Ric originally joined us back in 2015 and was given the job of recruitment consultant to the lighting and lighting controls sector, however with the huge demand for personnel within the Fire & Security sectors on his return he will be recruiting for many of the leading manufacturers and contractors within the Fire sector.

Focused predominantly on the South East of England Ric will be looking to place Service Engineers, Commissioning Engineers, Sales Professionals and associated operational staff within the Fire and Security sector.

A recruitment drive to hire staff for the Department of International Trade has been called a
total failure and waste of tax payers monies.

The details have come to light after Labour peer Lord Adonis addressed parliament about the
use of government monies to recruit staff for the Brexit department.

This figure,which was spent solely on external recruitment agencies and headhunters, is a
source of embarrassment to the government. It is believed that the
organisations have only managed to recruit a handful of people following the
costly recruitment drive; in fact, according to reports from Whitehall, only
one appointment has been confirmed.

As Brexitbegins, the government will require skilled negotiators to deal with the
complex legal and economic ramifications of the split with Europe. The
headhunters were tasked with finding suitable candidates in the international
market with experience in this field; however, it is understood that there are
few people qualified internationally to undertake such a task.

According to Lord Adonis, the recruiters were unsuccessful as potential candidates were
unwilling to compromise their professional reputations on a series of
negotiations that were unrealistic and unlikely to succeed.

SER Ltd are of course attempting to contact the powers that be within the Department of
International Trade to see if they would be willing to use our experienced Head
Hunting team on a success only basis!

Its important that at the very start of the interview and job hunting process that you consider the chance that you are going to get counter offered, if and when you hand in your notice to your current employer. After all good people are hard to find, so to your employer its worth paying a bit more just to remove the need to recruit your replacement.

But that's it, that's the only reason why they have counter offered you, and you should remember that the limit to your current employers valuation of you. If that wasn't the case they would have been working with you to resolve your issues way before you had to threaten them with resignation.

Most employers think that employees resign because they have been offered more money and that's a mistake. While new opportunities tend to result in increase remuneration and rewards it's not normally the real reason for an employee's unhappiness. The fact is that in the majority of cases, it's about a broken down relationship, between line manager or company views and goals.
Its good practice at this early stage to make a note of the reasons why you are considering new roles, not only will you have a good set of answers when asked at interview stage, you can refer back to this if the Counter Offer does appear.
WATCH OUT FOR THE HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR
Under a sudden barrage of emotional pleas, flattery and coaching against your new offer you are at risk of forgetting why you wanted to leave in the first place – especially if your boss or other management team member are a good "Hostage Negotiator" – because let's face it – you have just taken your boss hostage, in their minds at least! You're leaving and their profits are at risk (not to mention the cost of replacing you that has to be allocated somewhere) – you effectively have a gun to their head and they will do anything to talk you out of it.
If you're not careful you will forget that people rarely change and that if you don't like your boss now you won't like them next month either. You will temporarily forget how horrible you have been feeling.... And like a victim of an abusive partner, you are at risk of falling for the promises to change, the pleas to forgive and give them another chance. They will slowly but surely try to make you doubt yourself and in that moment they will come at you with a counter offer.
Why is it a mistake to accept a counter-offer?
Because the counter is not about YOU! It's about THEM! The counter offer is never about the individual – it's about the situation. Your boss does not need the headache of another vacancy to fill. They really don't need a drop in their staff retention figures. They definitely don't need a loss of bonuses due to a loss of fee income or indeed the extra workload of managing your work and recruiting another staff member

• So be warned!
• Yes, they will flatter you
• Yes they will make you feel good
• Yes they will give you a counter offer to make you stay....FOR NOW.
• And if you do accept a counter is only FOR NOW, because I can assure you this relationship is now over.

Your boss no longer trusts you. Your boss won't change and the minute you reject your lovely new offer you will regret it. Why will you regret accepting a counter offer?

• Because literally from day 1 you will have one eye on the door wondering what could have been.
• Because your boss now doesn't trust you and will be following your every move, email and call.
• Because you will slowly realise that your boss hasn't changed.
• Because you will see (almost immediately) that your business is moved or changed in some way to accommodate your back-up replacement. Sometimes this will be disguised as having a Trainee to Manage, but what your Boss is really doing is getting you to train your replacement. Because guess what? They know it's only a matter of time now too – but guess what – now it's on their terms.

So before you even start to consider a counter offer:
• Sit down and write a list of the original reasons for you wanting to leave
• Score them on a scale of 1-10 for how miserable they were making you
• Now write a list of the reasons why you want to accept your new role
• Score them on a scale of 1-10 for how happy each element will make you
• Now look at your counter offer. How many of the reasons to leave are you actually really confident will change? How valuable are they to you?
• To accept a counter offer you need to be 100% confident that your boss is going to keep their word and that you won't regret losing your original offer

SER Limited – Technical and Engineering Recruiters
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