Blogs

For those unfamiliar with our situation, Urbanberry Recruitment is owned and ran by myself, Emma Gregory and my business partner Caroline Wakil. We started our company in 2017 after finding ourselv...

How important is your personality when you are interviewing for a role? And what on earth are soft skills?! When you attend an interview for a job, you’re often told to prepare by: Doing your resea...

How long do candidates wait to hear about the job they really want? What is an acceptable length of time that they should give a future employer to get back to them after they put their heart and s...

When looking for a new role as a Business Travel Consultant whether you are coming from a Travel Management Company already, or, you are in Leisure Travel and fancy a change, there are certain thin...

I posted a video last week about the difficult subject of counter offers. For those who aren’t sure what that means, it’s a situation you find yourself in when you go to hand in your notice for a b...

So, here we are on the 2nd anniversary of Urbanberry Recruitment! We didn’t dare to dream that 2 years ago, as we sat holding hands nervously waiting to publish our first Linkedin post that we’d be...

The last couple of weeks have been a particularly tough time for many people in travel with the sad demise of Thomas Cook who, let’s face it, were nothing short of an institution in the travel indu...

Whenever we ask this question to a candidate we feel a sense of uneasiness about telling us the answer. So we’d like to set the record straight about why we’re asking! Transparency with each other ...

This weeks blog is looking at the validity of online review sites and how they affect us on a daily basis. As a naturally indecisive person, I'll often look for the "review" page on anything I'm go...

Mention the word “targets” in a work capacity and it’ll strike the fear in to many of us. Conjuring up images of micro managing bosses, feeling like a failure if you don’t perform as expected and a...