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

The Impact of a 'Bad Hire' on your Business

When you get your hiring decisions right its a cause for celebration and relief as the pursuit of your departmental and corporate goals can continue unabated and with renewed gusto either as was or if its increased headcount with added momentum.[...]

How to Avoid a Bad Hire

It’s a topic which is paramount across the world to all business leaders, HR teams and hiring managers as they strive in search of their departmental and organisational goals. After all, attracting and then retaining the “right” people is critical[...]

4 Steps to Prevent Recruitment Fallout within your Organisation

Recruitment Inertia as we call it, is common within many businesses and relates to an organisational inability to move the recruitment process past a given internal stumbling block. This can often be as a result of the differing opinions of the[...]

10 'Must Do's for a Winning CV

Despite the continuing advancements in technology, with the rising use of videos, behavioural testing and online platforms in recruitment, our experience tells us that most perspective employers are still happy looking at a CV as the gateway to[...]

5 Stand Out Words You Must Include on your CV.

With research showing that a prospective employer will spend on average only 7 seconds looking at the suitability of your CV for a vacancy, the need to make your CV stand out from the crowd is of paramount importance. One of the key ways to do this[...]

10 Power Verbs to Make your CV Standout from the Crowd

If you want to land interviews and get your CV past that initial stage, you really need to get plenty of verbs to describe the actions you take in the workplace to provide value to your colleagues and your customers. So including what we describe as[...]

What Makes a Great Marketing Manager

In the latest of our popular What Makes a Great Series, we focus on the role of the Marketing Manager. 

Changes to the National Minimum Wage

Please note the following Important Changes to the National Minimum Wage.

Current rates to 31st March 2018

  • £7.83 per hour for ages 25 and over.
  • £7.38 per hour for ages 21 to 24.
  • £5.90 per hour for ages 18 to 20.
  • £4.20 per hour for school leaving[...]