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The team at Shop4Staff have hailed the good news of 4000 new jobs in the area around Stowmarket. Mid Suffolk District Council has approved plans which promise the creation of up to 4000 jobs in the area over the next 15 years. The Mid Suffolk Joint Core Strategy was approved by a meeting of the full council in Stowmarket.

A Norfolk recruitment business has responded positively to hopes of new hospitality jobs being created at Norwich’s Riverside as new tenants move into the troubled former Project nightclub.

Recruiting staff is a big step, especially for small businesses who rely heavily on a tight team of talented individuals. Good quality people can be your most valuable asset, while poor people can soon be disruptive and draining. Its important to understand when there is a genuine business need to enter the recruitment process and to understand the stages of staff recruitment involved. The process of recruiting staff can be broken down into 4 key steps.

Fed up of applying for job after job, without success? Tired of stuffing envelopes, sending emails and getting nowhere? Perhaps its time to take a look at your profile or CV in a bit more detail to improve your message.  These tips can also be applied when creating or updating your Shop4Staff profile page. Here are some top tips to make your profile stand out from the crowd:

We have all worked with a range of people, some great, some awful and a lot of inbetweeners. Great staff are hard to come by and an employer with good sense will do all they can to hold onto the best employees.

We enjoyed this article from Jeff Haden which suggests that there are eight qualities of remarkable employees:

As cold weather bites and parts of the UK experience extreme weather conditions, businesses that rely on staff to function may be feeling nervous about falling staff attendance. Here are some top tips to help you and your company cope with the bad weather:

1. Share weather reports and updates with staff regularly to ensure everyone is well informed.

2. Support staff to take advanced driving courses to help them to drive safely in slippery or icy conditions.