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How we helped Scope’s employment service

A lot of our clients just plug into our services as they need them for those tricky hires. We recently reviewed the work we did from 2017 – 2022 with

How we recruited over 200 staff for Shaw Trust’s CFO 3 & 4 programmes

Over the past few years, we have proudly placed over 200 individuals on Shaw Trust & Ixion’s CFO 3 & CFO 4 criminal justice support contracts, aimed at rehabilitating ex-offenders

Strategies (without an agency) for Finding and Attracting Top Talent in Employability & Skills

When budgets restrict the use of agencies, it’s time to take matters into your own hands! Here are some invaluable tips to discover and engage with exceptional talent in the

Finding and Retaining Employment Advisors: A New Approach

Finding and retaining employment advisors can be a daunting challenge for many of our clients. One major issue is that employment advisors tend to excel at finding jobs for themselves,

Tips for Job Hunting After Redundancy at Qube

It’s really sad news about Qube. Another great provider in the sector bites the dust. If you’ve been affected by the redundancies, here are some ideas to help kickstart your

Registering with Red 5 People for work

We operate an agile registration process for candidates requesting key info at certain trigger points throughout the process which we have reviewed with the REC (of which we are members)👍

Selling apprenticeships – we just don’t know how to do it!

Every single month since the launch of the apprenticeship levy, the press has highlighted the decline in numbers. Trade and national press alike revealed a ‘shocking’ 40% drop in February

Bidding is an art, not a lottery

The welfare to work and work-based skills worlds are burgeoning with current and imminent tender opportunities, National Careers Service, Ministry of Justice, DWP Personal Independence Payment Assessment, LEP and devolved

Time to implement that W2W contract? Plate juggle or Gannt Chart?

The National Career’s Service contract award notices were published last week and hearty congratulations to the winners. Some of these area-based contracts were awarded to the incumbent, which makes for

Recruit Assessors now or wait for the right levy client to land?

Here at Red 5 Solutions, we look for cat like traits when recruiting business development and sales people for our clients. The best sales people are highly intelligent, agile and

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