A quick one...

Just a quick entry today. Been extremely busy today. Lots of interview requests, new vacancies coming in and then organising my travel and meetings for the next week.

So what does the week have in store for me?

Tuesday evening - Edinburgh - Back to back meetings and then Edinburgh's Entrepreneurial Exchange Get Together

Wednesday - Edinburgh - half day meetings, half day reserved for proactive work! Then fun running club in evening

Thursday - Leeds. Taking part in a ten pin bowling night for trainee accountants. Should be fun and nice to meet them all!

Friday - London. Checking out a venue for Accountancy Worldwide Recruitment Forum that we will be hosting in 2011

Saturday - London to New Forest... Sunday - New Forest Half Marathon

Monday - Southampton to Guernsey. Meetings all day with clients.

Tuesday - Guernsey to Jersey - Meetings all day with clients and then back

Wednesday - Guernsey - attending a wedding in Guernsey

Thursday back to Edinburgh - hopefully in time for the Winning Entrepreneurs 2010 Formal Dinner - Edinburgh

Few so now you know why I do not have a lot of time today!

Abigail :)

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A superb day!

Wow, I cant believe it gone 7pm already! The day has gone so fast. Lots of good things happened today. We secured new positions for 2 accountants overseas. One will be off to the lovely Channel Islands and the other to sunny Bermuda. Then the phones didn't stop ringing with interview requests for other accountants we are assisting to find new roles.

It was interesting speaking to a contact in Bermuda who is a little nervous, but looking forward her potential first hurricane on the island! She is off to find a stock of ingredients for the lovely swizzle cocktail and some chicken wings.. and then its down the hatches. Its great that we can predict the hurricanes, the force they will hit and everyone can ride it out safely these days. Luckily Bermuda does not have very vicious hurricanes usually. I think only one in the last 20 years did damage to speak about and no-one got hurt.

Talking of natural disasters, my heart still goes out to my friends in New Zealand who were recently hit with an earthquake. It didn’t get reported too widely in the UK, but it was 7 on the richter scale and seems to have caused heaps of damage. On top of that it really shock people that were in up. My friends were in bed and got thrown across the room as they tried to get under the door frame. One cracked some ribs and briefly passed out. It sounded terrifying. However, again, brilliant to know that there were no fatalities even in a quake of that magnitude.

Only other sad news today was saying goodbye to a member of my team who has been with us for over 3 years. Unfortunately she is finding the commute too much now she has a young child. Her bubbly personality will be missed in the office.

So, onwards we now need to find another good recruitment consultant. They seem to be a bit thin on the ground these days. If you know a consultant who has high standards, a professional attitude towards their work and would like to Improve Lives, then please do tell them to contact me.

Well now, it is Friday night, so I should sign off and start my weekend.

Have a good one all.

Abigail

Today is another day

I spent the morning attending court for potential Jury Duty. The entire experience has been enlightening. From the minute I received the letter through the post, friends and colleagues have offered both serious and fun advice on how to get out of it. However, after lots of thought I felt I should do my 'duty'.

I spent an entire half day in court waiting to find out if I would be selected. Half hoping I wouldnt be selected because work is so hectic and half hoping I would out of intrigue. I was not selected.

Looking around the room I was amazed at how few of the people that had turned up seemed like 'business people'. Maybe it is true that you can get out of doing this duty by just phoning and up and saying its inconvenient for work. However, then one wonders, who does that leave to do such a serious task?

I must have watched too many movies and read too many John Grisham books. I was expecting the Jury to be 'selected' by the defendants, rather than names drawn out of a gold fish bowl. Although this is more humane and less personal if you are not selected - or maybe the other way round...

The great news is I now have half a day today in the office and no meetings. In fact they have asked me to phone each day this week to see if I will be needed the next day. What a fantastic excuse to have no meetings in my diary!

Then, this evening I am to do a talk over a dinner on the topic of doing business internationally. I am humbled by the attendee list. Each attendee has many many years experience of running successful businesses. I hope that they benefit from what I have to say and the conversation I stimulate. If not, at least they will be in the Scottish Malt Whiskey Society so they can enjoy the lovely malts instead...

Where is all the action?

After a few very hectic weeks travelling around the UK and Europe I had a quite weekend in Edinburgh looking at all the vacancies we are currently assisting companies to fill and working out where we will find the very best accountants for these vacancies.

We currently have positions in:
England
Australia
Holland
Ireland
Bermuda
Caribbean
Channel Islands
Russia
Middle East
Canada
Hong Kong
Bucharest
Germany
Scotland
Switzerland
Greece
Turkey
Gibraltar
Malta
Luxembourg

And the list goes on!!

Now all the team at Think Global Recruitment need to do is source good accountants to move to these locations. The companies recruiting are excellent organisations and the work experience would enhance anyone's cv. So it shouldn't be a hard task. Or will it? It does amaze me how sometimes we can not find suitable people for some of these roles. I mean, who wouldn't want to gain international experience? Who wouldn't benefit from such a great move?

Oh well, less wondering and more speaking to prospective accountants to be done...

Signing off for now..

Abigail Stevens

Cities I have visited

My first Blog.. What is it all about?

So this is the first time I have written a blog. However, having been using Twitter, Facebook and Linked in for quite sometime, I think I will enjoy the freedom of words available!

My plan will be to use this space to update anyone interested on topical knowledge of what is happening in the recruitment market worldwide and also include blogs about my travels. The recruitment market is a great indicator of the economic climate and I am a frequent traveller.

I mainly live and work in Edinburgh, although spend a large % of my time living in Australia and travelling the rest of the world. In the last 12 months I have visited and travelled across:

Australia
New Zealand
Thailand
England
Scotland
Ireland
Italy
France
Belgium
Guernsey
Jersey
Penang
Malaysia
Hong Kong

So, if you are interested in following my rather hectic lifestyle then please feel free to follow me.
Abigail