Mark Woffenden

About Mark Woffenden

Mark Woffenden is a Director at Lucy Walker Recruitment and has an extensive knowledge of the issues and workings of the West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester Commercial markets developed over the last 20 years in the Industry

Ways to Reduce your Chances of Losing Top Candidates to Competitors

The interview process can invariably be a long, expensive and time consuming exercise for many organisations. So the prospect of going through it and missing out on your preferred candidate who ticks all the boxes is not one you want to contemplate.[...]

4 Ways to take Control of Your Interview

Although an interview can often appear to be a spontaneous conversation, inevitably both the interviewer and the interviewee will, or definitely should, have their own pre-programmed scripts of things they want to say and cover off. 

The interviewer[...]

4 Key Steps to Seeing Behind the Interview Mask

Many of us have been involved in interviewing and recruiting what we are convinced is a brilliant enthusiastic inspiring character, only to find that when they start they are anything but that! This leaves you asking yourself "Do they actually have[...]

Why Candidate Profiling will Reduce Your Time to Hire.

We have all heard and probably experienced at first hand the stories of the fabulous candidate with a perfect CV for your vacant role who fails at the final interview stage, yet no one really knows why but it's back to the drawing board.

Frustrating[...]

Don't Let Interview Bias Derail your Corporate Goals

Interview bias can have a debilitating impact on a company's ability to meet their corporate objectives.

The Case for Creative Interviewing

Traditional interview formats where you ask candidates about their skills and experience to see if they’re a fit for the job have been the industry standard for decades, and if they work for you and your organisation then why change it you may ask?

Why a Recruitment Planning Meeting is Critical for Business Growth

Recruitment performed effectively to both reduce the risk of a 'bad hire' and allow for planned growth needs a thorough and well documented process.

10 Reasons Why you Should Consider Hiring Temporary Workers for your Organisation

You may have seen our recent post on the benefit of temping for employees, so we now look at it from the other side of the fence, the employer and why you should consider it..