Facilities Management

Using the Festive Season to the Advantage of your Business

Posted in Facilities Management

Facilities Management recruitment has evolved so much over the past 10-15 years. Of course, business would tend to go on shut down over the Christmas period, but now with technology allowing us to keep in contact 24 hours a day via email and mobile phones, the dynamic of the industry has really shifted. We’ve gone […]

Will 2017 Be the Year Drones Become a Facility Best Friend? Part 2 – Indoors

Posted in Facilities Management

Last week, Maxwell Stephens took a look at how drones will become more and more useful in facilities management in 2017. We examined how drones could be used to reach hard-to-access places at a very low cost. Certainly lower than getting a cherrypicker or a scaffolding firm in. We all know that these two options […]

The Top 5 FM Software Apps – As Rated by Users

Posted in Facilities Management

One of the most eye-opening changes the Internet has brought about for those of us who can remember what life was like before it is the sheer volume of information and opinion it brings us. Right there to our desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone and even smartwatch. When Amazon launched in the mid-90s, it quickly grew […]

Encouraging More Women to Apply for FM Roles

Posted in Candidate, Facilities Management

Here at Maxwell Stephens, we’ve seen the number of women enter the industry and use our services climb since we set up in 2006. It’s always great to break artificial glass ceilings in any industry. Society benefits from it as a whole. The need to get more women into FM roles as soon as possible […]

Will 2017 Be the Year Drones Become a Facility Manager’s Best Friend? Part 1

Posted in Facilities Management

They’re in the news all the time. Particularly in the context of Amazon or Domino’s pizza. Drones – unmanned flying machines controlled by remote control from the ground. Their immediate use to an FM like you may not be obvious. We at Maxwell Stephens have been keeping a very close eye on the technology and […]

Social Media, LinkedIn & Your Next Job aka Have You Already Shot Yourself In The Foot? Part 2

Posted in Facilities Management

Well, the first part of this article got a proper reaction from Maxwell Stephens’ large and growing database of facilities management professionals. For many of you feeding back to us, you didn’t mind that prospective employers viewed your LinkedIn profile. After all, it’s a professionals’ network. What really got some of your goats was the […]