Social work jobs are now simpler to find

Mary Community, Jobs

Although social work jobs can provide a huge amount of satisfaction, finding the right post can be incredibly stressful. Social services jobs are, by and large, offered by Local Authorities. We all know how differently they can be run with no two Authorities advertising for social worker jobs in the same place or in the same way.

Thankfully, two developments over the last few years have improved on this frustrating situation. Firstly, many Local Authorities now use specialist recruitment agencies rather than just letting their own personnel departments advertise in the local or national press. With the larger recruitment agencies covering dozens of Local Authorities (Sanctuary Personnel, for instance, a major player in the field, is on contract with over 150 local authorities as well as recruiting for several other major public service bodies), your chances of locating social work jobs in almost any part of the country are vastly increased. Add to this the convenience of the internet, and you have a far more satisfactory state of affairs. Almost every recruitment agency will now have an on-line search function, making it child’s play to find social services jobs precisely tailored to your own level of experience and areas of interest.

These two developments can of course be a boon to personnel departments as well, desperate to find the right people for the right positions. The high turnover rates in social worker jobs are well-known as pressures can be high so recruitment can be a sizeable and ongoing challenge, particularly in more challenging areas of social work or in particularly deprived areas. However, there will always be people willing (or maybe obliged) to relocate and national agencies make advertising out of area much easier and more cost-effective. Once it comes to higher level positions, looking further afield in order to find the right talent is almost always a necessity and many agencies will cover posts right up to the level of Senior Executive level, sometimes even for national organisations.

Another improvement to recruitment in this field has been in the speed of response. social work jobs often need to be filled very quickly and, with on-line queries and form submission now being the norm, the turnaround time is vastly improved with far less work for either the recruitment agency or personnel department.  It is also easier to share information on the organisation and the social services jobs available using the internet as each time an envelope has to travel through the postal service, another few days is added to the process. Social worker jobs can still present their own unique challenges, but at least the recruitment process itself is becoming a lot less painful for all concerned.

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For flexible service – IT support London tops the tables

David Information Technology, Technical Support

If you run any size of business, you will know that one of the most stressful scenarios is when the IT system goes down, usually at precisely the worst moment; the day of the big sales pitch, hours before a crucial deadline or just as you try to access information for a valued client. Just as most of us don’t service the cars we drive any longer, few of us understand our IT systems in enough detail to fix faults ourselves. On the other hand, hiring a full-time IT officer can be pricey, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. Thankfully, when it comes to computer support London is well served with an array of specialist businesses dedicated to offering it support London being the business hub that it is, it makes sense that this niche market has grown to effectively provide “in-house” style support from off the premises.

What services is it possible to buy in then and what questions should you be asking when you look for an IT support provider? Whether you need advice on new software or hardware, installation of these key elements or an ongoing servicing package, it’s sensible to look at a company who can provide a start-to-finish service. In other words, it makes sense to have a company who can advise on, install and then maintain your kit, even if you initially only need part of this process.comp

It also makes good business sense to find an outfit that isn’t tied to one particular software or hardware provider who might or might not offer the solutions you need for your business at a price you are happy to pay. Far better an unbiased company who can recommend what will work for you without having their eye on a kickback from higher up the chain. Impartiality is crucial, especially if the software or hardware needed in your niche is quite specialist.

A speedy response is vital on those occasions when everything crashes at the crucial moment, particularly if you don’t have in-house computer support London is well served in this area. Although these days the vast majority of problems can be solved over the phone or by remote access (FWCS IT support, for example, say they can fix 98% of faults over the phone and, as a bonus, your call is directly handled by an engineer), there will always be cases where an on-site visit is needed. This is when a local company or one with a local presence comes into its own, offering quick and reliable it support London again offers the best array of localised IT support but this is a phenomenon which, in an IT-dependent age, is starting to roll out to other large cities around the country.

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Video conferencing can help drop costs

David Business, Meetings

Meetings are a fact of life, and it’s also the case that there is simply no substitute for face-to-face time. If there are major decisions to be made, then it’s generally best to make them in person – the phone and email just aren’t reasonable substitutes. There is so much nonverbal communication that happens in an exchange that such media can strip out a significant level of content, leading to misunderstandings and potentially serious problems. At the same time, however, meetings can be extremely inconvenient, especially when they involve multiple people and take place in another country. video conferencing is one way around this. Technology has progressed to the point where telepresence video conferencing can be a good substitute for the real thing, obviating the need for costly and time-consuming travel. There may be occasions when you still need to meet in person, since no system, no matter how advanced, is perfect; nevertheless, audio visual conferencing can be a viable way to ‘meet’ now.

Travel is expensive and time consuming, and it is often enormously costly in terms of man-hours to send someone to a meeting or conference – especially when they are likely to spend many hours in transit for the sake of an hour or two in the same room as someone else. There is also an environmental cost to be considered, something that many firms are now aware of. Even if they are not, then this is going to have an increasing financial effect, as this is realistically the only way of limiting Carbon emissions. Therefore travel will increasingly start to show up on companies’ balance sheets.

In a connected world, there is less and less cause to travel to meetings, however, and large companies and charities are finding video conferencing an economical alternative to doing so. Audio visual conferencing can almost give the impression of being in the same room as someone else, and is far more sophisticated than a Skype call – which, although outstanding by the standards of recent years, is behind the competition in this sense. Telepresence video conferencing is a step closer to that all-important face-to-face meeting, for which there is realistically no substitute. You might not be able to shake hands with the others, but you will be able to see them close-to, read their expression and be able to put their words into context – something all but impossible with even a phone call, let alone email. It’s a technology that has recently come of age, and is the perfect solution to the time and financial costs associated with globalisation.

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