Outplacement may well not be at the forefront of many business minds right now. A  high number of companies within the automotive industry are flourishing and unemployment is at its lowest rate in seven years. Despite one or two high-profile casualties in the sector, the mood in the market is generally buoyant for an industry...Read More

AUTO INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR BOARDROOM DIVERSITY REPORT – reproduced with kind permission from Auto Retail Agenda, written by Iain Dooley, 30 October 2015 Pleased to be quoted in this piece by Auto Retail Agenda, which references Lord Davies’ report about women on boards. The report into gender diversity in boardrooms, led by Lord Mervyn Davies,...Read More

I promised a second instalment of our blog about how employment law can step in when employers and employees fail to be civilised! Today, in the latest of our “Ennis & Co interviews…” series of blogs, we once again get the thoughts of Greg Hughes, a Senior Associate at Clarke Willmott solicitors. Here, Greg talks...Read More

The holiday season is upon us once again, and although we’re still working as hard as ever at Ennis & Co, with so many people taking a well-deserved week or two out to dip their toes into sea and sand, we thought we’d take a moment to pause and look back over the year so...Read More

I have interviewed a lot of people in my career in Automotive Executive Search, and there is something I have been noticing more and more over the last couple of years. For want of a better way to put it, it is a rise in evidence of poor behaviours in the workplace or, more specifically,...Read More

I don’t know about you, but I found the London Marathon inspiring and not a little instructive. I participated in the marathon-length London Moonwalk a few years ago, so I know that it’s a great undertaking to cover 26 miles at any speed. I remember the training, the sore feet, and the occasional sugary intake...Read More

Despite the new shared parental leave law, more women than men will experience a significant career break to have children, and will need to navigate their way back into work and face the challenges associated with this. Other women in an organisation who have undergone the same experience would have a unique opportunity here to...Read More

This post is about my favourite element of my job, which is working with candidates. More specifically, it’s about something I have noticed the best candidates manage to do throughout the process of being approached by a Search professional like me, then continue to do when being interviewed by my clients, and thereafter right to...Read More

Oscar Wilde once said; “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” And how relevant this is, so many years on… It doesn’t seem such a surprise now that younger people are advancing in their careers so quickly. Yet the barrier of which can, arguably, be ‘lack of experience.’ This is something quite consistently...Read More

Suggesting that the automotive industry needs to evolve if it is to flourish is a little like pointing at an elephant and calling it big. But the automotive industry is one that can barely move for all the elephants in the room. This is an industry we love, and as we have suggested elsewhere, it...Read More