Candidate

Look after yourself: Maintaining your mental health and wellbeing during Coronavirus

Posted in Candidate, Maxwell Stephens, Uncategorized

Looking after your mental health and wellbeing during Coronavirus. For many people, looking after your own mental health can be challenging at the best of times, yet the recent health crisis may mean that you are more isolated than usual. If you are staying home more than you usually would, it might feel more difficult […]

New Year, New Job?

Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management, Recruitment

New Year, New Job? For many people, the new year provides an opportunity for a fresh start and the chance to make positive changes in their life. Whether that’s finally joining the gym (for the first fortnight in January at least), or making the decision to leave a job that you’re unhappy in. If this […]

Workplace horror stories: workers share some of their worst workplace experiences.

Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management, Facilities News, Maxwell Stephens

Halloween is upon us, and who doesn’t like a good scare every now and again. We at Maxwell Stephens love a good scary story, but being specialist recruiters, we decided that instead of the same old ghost stories we’d look for some horror stories from the world of work. Bosses from hell, bat invasions, accidentally […]

Recognising Young Talent in FM: Pattenmakers Young Manager Award 2020

Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management, Facilities News, News & PR

One of the key developing trends we have seen within the FM workforce in recent decades is the increase in young professionals joining the sector. Discussing this topic with Facilitate Magazine several months ago Peter Forshaw, Managing Director at Maxwell Stephens Recruitment, highlighted a number of factors which has attributed to this demographic trend within […]

Horses for courses: FM Insights from Elliott Chase

Posted in Candidate, Comments, Facilities Management, Facilities News, News & PR

Choice is a wonderful thing. Maybe not so much in the 57-varieties American-inspired overload that quickly becomes baffling. But more in the sense of having a few clear options, one of which should lead to satisfaction. That’s almost the case with facilities management. Fundamentally, there’s a solid range of options. But that doesn’t stop FM […]

Keep your foot out of your mouth – What not to say to your boss!

Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management, Maxwell Stephens

Spending the majority of your waking life in the workplace means that there is a very good chance that at some point you will say something you shouldn’t to the wrong person. We all know how it feels to put our foot in our mouth, however there is a whole level of embarrassment and risk […]