CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM ALL AT WILDE RECRUITMENT With the background Christmas music in the office, copious amounts of chocolates and treats throughout the building, you can safely say that we are all ready for the Party Season, and a New Year to begin. But let’s look back on this year. Did 2018 live up to your expectations? Many of us will be making the “usual” Ne...

Do you know your PSR’s from your PSL’s?   With MPs recently asking the MOD to cut down on all the acronyms they use, (they have 370 A4 pages to wade through) we have to question whether we are all doing text speak on a daily basis, throughout our job roles. This is certainly true within the Engineering sector, where shorthand codes are extensive. Now text speak is e...

  Are you a night or day person? Does it/should it affect your working week? Body Clock – technically called Circadian Rhythms – are internal variations in the body that are controlled by the brain in a 24-hour cycle – basically telling us when to wake up/sleep/eat etc. How often have you adjusted the time of your alarm clock, but when the sound goes off as an indic...

  Summer Bucket List!   Put your spreadsheets, rulers, theodolites, tripods and calculators aside and do something different instead!! Summer is upon us and we are all thinking of the lazy hot days ahead (only 4 paydays until Xmas); so why not use our skills and imagination and make a bucket list for the next 4 weeks: Below are some ideas: Get Summer Beach Bo...

Several studies of employees show a significant decrease in employee productivity during the summer months; and adversely an increase in productivity during periods of bad or cooler weather. These same studies reveal that during colder temperatures, we as humans, are more capable of making rapid accurate decisions. When things get hot we apparently become slower and more ...

Have you Implemented your Heatwave Plan/Policy?   Summer is technically a couple of months away, and yet we are at present basking in a heatwave. So, do we each have a plan in place to help protect us from the sun, or are we all just going to enjoy it whilst it lasts, because the inevitable will happen come Bank Holiday weekends when the rain, grey skies and wind will ...