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14.02.2020

“Rayner Personnel celebrates its first £1m franchisee”

Guy and Pascale Hodge are celebrating putting together £1 million worth of recruitment deals in just three and a half years after taking their Rayner Personnel franchise.

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05.02.2020

How to use mentoring to develop your employees

Mentoring is a relationship between an experienced employee and an inexperienced or new employee....

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24.01.2020

Property – a 2020 forecast

2019 saw treacle-slow progress on both Brexit and housing market growth, sending estate agents’ confidence in the property market plummeting to a historic low....

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21.01.2020

Which matters more - your branding or the properties you sell?

‘Branding’ doesn’t just mean your logo or your catchy tagline. It’s the face and personality of your business - and if people don’t like your face or your personality, they won’t want to engage with you or introduce you to others.

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16.01.2020

The Nicest Way To Fire Someone

They’re underperforming. They’ve been warned. They’ve got to go. But how on earth are you going to break it to them? Firing a team member is always hard, but sometimes it has to be done for the sake of the team and the company.

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09.01.2020

Estate agency shares: is the 'Boris bounce' just a blip?

Shares in UK property companies of all kinds rose after December’s resounding Tory election win. With many blaming Brexit uncertainty for the slowdown in residential and commercial property sales over the past three years, it’s no surprise that some of the biggest winners were estate agencies.

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07.01.2020

10 worst job interview questions to ask an estate agent

Quick: Would you rather fight 1 horse-sized duck, or 100 duck-sized horses? That's one of the top 10 oddball interview questions of the year, according to Glassdoor.com.

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03.01.2020

Your photo on your CV - yes or no?

The question of whether to include your photo in your CV is a complex one. It reveals a number of things about you that by all rights shouldn’t be factors in the hiring process--age, gender, ethnicity, whether you observe certain religious prescripts, physical features, how you dress.

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23.12.2019

Should estate agencies ditch the suits?

The picture of an entrepreneur in the public imagination is changing. Young innovators in the tech sector often appear before their companies or the media in t-shirts and jeans.

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18.12.2019

Most estate agents don't understand the 'Christmas effect' - do you?

Between holding viewings, closing sales (with all the communication with solicitors and clients that entails), and advertising new properties and promotions, estate agency sales negotiators rarely have a day at work that isn’t busy.

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12.12.2019

Top 10 Chocolate Boxes to have in your property office this Christmas

Any time there’s a special event, especially Mother’s Day, Easter etc, we love seeing the walls of chocolate boxes that appear in shops and reminisce about our old favourites and wonder if that nutty delight we had sometime in 1994 was still in the selection.

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10.12.2019

Hire a grandma or grandpa - why the property industry needs the wisdom of elders

We’re all aware of the fight against sexism and racism in the property industry - but what about ageism? Does your company discriminate against people because of their age?

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