Staff turnover linked to good packages
By Catherine Woods
Staff retention is crucial in a relationships-focused business like recruitment. That’s why Jo Sellick doesn’t shy away from offering his key employees at Sellick Partnership lucrative packages.

Childcare: "Sir Alan Sugar's got the wrong attitude"
By Kate Pritchard
Olly Swanton's £2m-turnover digital press agency is a "baby factory", with employees taking time off to have children or look after their kids. It costs Swanton a fortune – but he's backing the breeders.

Flexi-time works for small business
By Catherine Woods
T-Enterprise co-founder Zarrar Chishti says the bigger the software and games development firm gets, the less likely it will be able to offer the flexible working conditions its employees currently take advantage of.

How to whip your employees into shape
By Real Business
Are your staff snoozing on their keyboards or staging a walk-out? Here are our top ten tips to keep your employees motivated and chomping at the bit for more work.

Staying attractive to your employees
By Melissa Hancock
When it comes to employing staff, recruitment tends to be the easy part. Retaining the best staff is where the battle often begins. But as John Hughes, founder and MD of Cygnet Health Care discovered, financial incentives and employee share schemes are a good start – the company hasn’t lost a single senior manager since being set up in 1987.

Recruitment MD gives advice on reference checks
By Catherine Woods
Hiring new people? Be systematic about checking their references, urges Jon Nicholson, the managing director of recruitment firm Astbury Marsden & Partners.

Charm, good looks and a great arse?
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
Jason Didcott’s Butlers in the Buff have these qualities in spades. But finding new talent is a tough, muscle-bound challenge of its own.

“Ambitious young graduates? No thanks,” says CEO.
By Rebecca Burn-Callander
Julian Driver, CEO of Vickers Laboratories, finds it nigh impossible to recruit good people. But surprisingly, it’s not the young bucks that prove their mettle; it’s the old dogs.

Unanimis founder's passion for people
By Catherine Woods
Khalil Ibrahimi describes having 55 employees at his internet advertising company Unanimis as “awe inspiring”.

Good managers are the key to success
By Carryn Dewing
Sliderobes chairman Mick McAleese believes the key to his company’s success has been refining recruitment skills and learning to identify a “good manager from a hole in the head”.