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My Top 5 Fish and Chips! At the age of 22 I had spent nearly five years in the hospitality industry and at this time I chose not to progress in this sector. British Home Stores were famous for their fish and chips and I think the restaurant I worked in on Market St in Manchester used to turnover around £3m a year off the back of this! I do however still have a passion for co...

Priority Recruitment is a recruitment agency that focuses on the personal touches of recruiting and finding people their dream and ideal job. We want to make sure that we guide any candidate through the job process smoothly the best way we can. This is one in a series of blogs to support candidates in their journey. Managerial candidates may be asked to complete a SWOT on on...

Priority Recruitment welcomes Daniel With the huge success of the Hospitality Division in 2019, 2020 has started with some excellent news for us at Priority Recruitment Ltd, we are strengthening our senior team with the confirmation just received that Daniel Franklin will be joining us in February. Daniel has nearly 20 years recruitment experience across multiple divisions a...

Welcome to the May edition of our Furniture Newsletter! JYSK targets 50+ UK stores...... Loom Loft; the family behind Oswaldtwistle Mills confirms new project..... Cult Furniture Group; Top 50 'Rising Stars'..... Other news; Loaf announce 8th store..... For all enquires please contact our furniture specialist Chris Thomson.

Template & Top Tips For The Perfect CV Here at Priority Recruitment we know that whilst you may be an amazing Coffee Shop manager, a high performing Retail Sales Consultant or a fantastic Area Manager, this doesn't necessarily make you a fantastic CV writer. Whilst we value talking to people and getting to know the real you, a CV is still a valuable tool and likely to form t...

Two months ago, I found out that my cousin was made redundant from the company she was working for the last 15 years. Unfortunately, the whole department have been made redundant due to financial circumstances. I have had several conversations with my cousin since the event and she had recommended me to write a blog to help others who have also been unfortunate to experience...

As a consultancy, we are showing some real growth in our market and are fast becoming the go-to agency when it comes to supporting recruiting campaigns across all levels within the Quick Service Restaurant & Coffee sector. Proudly, I will add a lot of this has been by recommendation! Why? well, mainly because of the reason I sought out and contacted Priority for my next care...

Neptune Steps Vs Me (for Mind) By Chris Thomson Hello! My name is Chris and I used to swim competitvely, not for around twenty years but here I will talk about my decision to set up the just giving page and my rationale for choosing the charity Mind for all donations to go to, then I will tell you about Neptune Steps and the back story of how I ended up here. The greatest ca...

Interview Preparation A User Guide By Chris Thomson For any interview at any level of seniority OK so a lot of the time I use the phrase 'I don't want to teach you to suck eggs' and even though I am not entirely sure what this means what I can tell you is that a lot of this content you will probably already know so it won't come as a surprise, but there will be some content ...

Motivation is rather elusive, isn’t it? Some days you feel it, and other days you can’t grab a measly corner of it no matter how hard you try. You stare at the computer screen, willing yourself to type, create, develop, and instead you find yourself simply going through the motions, barely caring about the work you’re producing. I’ve totally been there too. It could be due t...