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Six months into my second career shift and I am very happy I made the change and joined Ashby Jenkins Recruitment. I love working with passionate candidates and wonderful hiring…

New to the office environment? After a focus on working from home for the last few years more and more organisations are returning to the office and we wanted to…

As a Hiring Manager or Decision maker struggling with high staff turnover, have you ever wondered how to increase retention rates and what will motivate your employees? I recently attended…

As part of the Scottish Fundraising Conference, I was asked this question and more and more of our charity clients are facing difficulties recruiting and retaining staff. You can watch…

Jobs aren’t for Christmas….they are for life and when you are thinking about making the move, it’s an important decision that you really need to think through.Perhaps you’re at the…

Its certainly been a strange and at times uncertain few years, typically uncertainty makes us cling to security and fear further change. However with things looking stable in the charity…

During my time as a Corporate Relations Manager, I cannot tell you the dread that washed over me when a pile of 30+ CVs landed on my desk, suddenly needing…

As some of you may be aware (I go on about it enough) I joined Ashby Jenkins Recruitment from a fundraising career within the arts sector. It remains a real…

January 2023 came screaming around the corner and I don’t know about you, but the New Year is always the time I find myself looking back on the last year…

There’s no question that there’s been a gear shift in the past 6 months. After years of uncertainty bobbing in and out of lockdown, we have seen some significant steps…

Parental leave. Not something you’d expect to still be a taboo topic. In fact, we have seen so many strides forward in the working world regarding maternal, paternal and adoption…

When inviting a candidate to interview, you must remember that they are also interviewing you. You are responsible for selling your organisation, the team and the role. We are noticing…

As many of you are aware, ED&I is incredibly important to us at Ashby Jenkins Recruitment. In 2020, we updated our policies, trained our consultants, established the Small Charity ED&I…

As January 2022 started, we were all expecting (and hoping for) a huge increase in the number of candidates applying for jobs, leaving behind the candidate-short market of 2021. But…

Last year, we launched the sector’s very first Equality, Diversity and Inclusion survey and released a report to share our findings with you. It was very exciting and humbling to…

It’s the feedback you always hope to hear, that your ability to support people at a huge point of change in their lives isn’t as good as it once was.…

As a commitment to our sector, we like to add value where we can, for several years I have been hosting and creating events for professionals to share advice and…

Date: 7th July 2021Time: 10:30 – 12:00Chair: Oliver Davey – Information and Data Manager, University of London The Chair for this session Oliver Davey has worked in multiple verticals from medical research, professional services, charities, finance and arts and…

Fundraising Operations Round TableFOR effective Fundraising Operations Date: 8th June at 9:30amVenue: ZoomChair: Jenelle Murray King, Head of Fundraising Operations at Send a Cow Bringing together fundraising operations professionals for…

Since GDPR came into place in 2018, we have all been more mindful of what our requirements are and what position we play in terms of storing and sharing data.…