NEWS

Happy Holidays!

Date: 19 December 2019

Merry flippin’ Christmas everybody! Wishing you all fab festivities, especially those legends who work through the holidays to keep the world turning. Extra mince pies for you lot ??? We will be closed from Friday 20th December 2019 and throughout the holidays, returning on Thursday 2nd January 2020. If urgent, please contact Gemma or Kate […]

The Gift of Giving – We Love The Mix!

Date: 28 November 2019

It’s nearly that time of year again and in the spirit of giving, we’ve decided to donate to a local charity, The Mix, this Christmas… The Mix at Stowmarket is a fantastic charity supporting local young people throughout those tough years in life. They work with local young people to empower and enable them to […]

We don’t like to blow our own trumpets…but…

Date: 18 November 2019

…if our clients and candidates do it for us, we’re cool with that! In fact, we’re very very grateful and appreciative ? We receive lots of lovely reviews on our recruitment services from clients and candidates but looking over them recently, we decided to make a little feature out of our most-smile-inducing three we’ve received […]

We’re home! Finally we’re in our new office in Bury St Edmunds…

Date: 18 November 2019

Aaaaand WE’RE HOME! Literally, at Gemma’s house in our new office down the end of the garden ??? It took a little while but we’re finally moved into our new office in Bury St Edmunds. A bit like our business, we like to do everything ourselves as much as possible and our new office was no […]

Let’s talk about feelings…

Date: 10 October 2019

  It’s world mental health day today and so we thought that’d be a good chance to talk about feelings. We all have them. They can be great, joyous wonderful things but they can also be scary, isolating and worrying too. Struggling with the bad feelings on your own can be lonely and debilitating and […]

Our friends at CV-Library explain how to NAIL your next job interview…

Date: 17 September 2019

  Hello dear reader. It has been a while! We’ve been busy-busy recently, more so than usual as we’ve been filling jobs AND making our new office ready for us to move into. Exciting! That does mean that we’ve been a bit slack on the ol’ news front, unfortunately. However, our good pals at CV-Library […]

The new office is coming along….

Date: 21 June 2019

Yes, that’s Gemma and I chuffed to bits, having just (with some help from our Husbands) laid the last bit of concrete for the base of our new office.  Being the big kids that we are at heart, we HAD to put our hands in the wet cement, of course. Exciting! We’ll still be in […]

Sharing The Good Stuff About Recruitment

Date: 13 June 2019

  Dear reader, Hello, Kate here. Flying solo this week from Horizon HQ…It’s been a funny old week so far. Feels almost autumn-like thanks to the torrential downpours and Gemma is on her holidays. Being the sociable creature that I am, it feels a bit lonely in the office (the dog isn’t that hot on […]

We’re ch-ch-ch-changing. A Horizon update…

Date: 04 June 2019

So, lovely reader, as I write this, Gemma and me (Kate) are heading into our 9th (aarrgh!) year in business as Horizon Search & Selection Ltd. My goodness, it’s been tough, but it’s also been fun and rewarding and brilliant too. The main thing it has been, more than anything else is…. a BIG learning […]

(Oops, back-dated post)…It’s April, it’s that time of year again and the National Minimum Wage is going up…

Date: 04 June 2019

BEFORE WE START: We recently had an annoying website issue that has meant we’ve been unable to create new posts to our site. So…this post is from a LinkedIn article we published back at the start of April. It may be a bit outdated now BUT the information is still correct, and it’s important to […]