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Recruiting during the Covid 19 pandemic and lockdown

For this week's article, Caroline has been thinking about how she's been approaching sales calls and business development during the current pandemic.

Here's her views, and she would love to hear what other people think too.

Recruiting During Lock…

What does furlough mean?

Blog number 2 from our Regional Director Caroline Oberman discusses fuloughing. What does furlough mean, and just what is the Coronavirus Furlough Scheme?

What is Furlough?It’s hard to believe that only a few months ago I had never even heard of th…

Construction Recruitment During COVID-19 – Should I Still Be Recruiting People for Site?

Our Regional Director, Caroline Oberman, is writing a series of blogs about life in the Construction industry during the coronavirus pandemic and how it's impacting on construction sites and construction workers in the UK.

Here she shares her thoug…

Getting your workplace ready for Covid-19

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has set out guidance on how businesses and employers can help to stop the spread of the new Coronavirus disease.

How does Coronavirus spread?

When someone who has COVID-19 coughs or exhales they release droplets…

Yorkshire is still thriving despite UK Powerhouse Study claims

In the recent UK Powerhouse Study from Irwin Mitchell, it was stated that while Sheffield and Leeds are expected to have the fastest growth in jobs across Yorkshire; the projected total level of employment is 472,200 in Leeds and 307,500 in Sheffi…

Sheffield Half Marathon Linear Team Challenge

Team Linear is limbering up ready to take on the Sheffield Half Marathon as part of a Team Challenge - with prizes and trophies in the offing!

We have a team of 16 ready to race around the streets of Sheffield on March 29th, with the aim of raising…

Highest Paying Power and Utilities Jobs in the UK

Update: We have now released updated data on Rail salaries in 2020-2021

The data used to inform this article has been taken from Linear Recruitment’s internal salary data covering April 2018 to March 2019, analysing 35,000 salary data points on can…

Star of the Quarter - December 2019

A HUGE congratulations to Linear's Emily Stapley who is the winner of Star of the Quarter for Quarter 4!Emily has been brilliant since she started in our Manchester office earlier in the year. She recently managed the Trades & Labour division in t…

New Client On Site Office Opening

Our brand new office based at one of our biggest Client's sites has just opened!Linear's Neringa Skare will be working from our Client's site, working with up to 100 of our candidates, with help from our Industrial Branch Manager Monika and Acco…

IR35 is changing.....

What is IR35?IR35 legislation was introduced by HMRC in 2000 with the purpose of collecting employment tax from those working through an intermediary (e.g. a personal service company or a worker’s own limited company). HMRC was concerned about “disg…

Candidate Referral Scheme - earn up to £500!

Did you know that we pay up to £500 for successful Candidate Referrals?

We've had an influx of exciting permanent roles that we are working on, and would love to be able to pay you for a successful referral!

Simply refer a friend, colleague or acq…

World's Biggest Coffee Morning

On Friday 27th September some of Linear's offices took part in Macmillan Cancer's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.Some of the bakes looked delicious as you can see.

Watch out Mary Berry!

We even decided to have our own Bake Off challenge - …