17 January 2012
Cummins Mellor Recommends…
We are currently working with some superb candidates available to start work immediately on a temporary basis to help you in covering employee absences or holidays, sickness or just a welcome increase in work load. Experienced PA Highly organised and methodical Personal Assistant/Secretary with 10 years’ significant experience in providing comprehensive and effective secretarial [...]
12 January 2012
Michelle Discusses Do Women Makes Better Bosses?
Michelle Mellor – Operations Director of Cummins Mellor Recruitment Spoke on BBC Radio Lancashire this morning to comment on Women in Business. A recent study has declared that Women are more effective leaders in the current economic conditions, take less risk and are more logical. Michelle was asked to comment on this as a women [...]
31 October 2011
Halloween Spirits
Cummins Mellor once again get into the spirit of dressing down for charity and haunted the Whalley Road offices for the day. A collection of devils, skeletons and witches were recruited to carry on business as normal and successfully raised cash for the Rosemere Cancer Foundation as well as having fun. the Hospitality [...]
25 October 2011
Sports Sponsorship – Supporting Local Sport
Cummins Mellor continue to support local sport by sponsoring Blackburn Rugby Club Following on from supporting Accrington Cricket Club through out the Summer and recent shirt sponsorship for Oswaldtwistle St Mary’s Football Club, the recruitment agency has now decided to sponsor Blackburn Rugby Club. Cummins Mellor have always been active fundraisers for charity and are [...]
18 October 2011
Award winners – Excellence in People Development
Cummins Mellor Recruitment have won the Regional Chamber Award for Excellence in People Development Cummins Mellor win the Regional Chamber Award for Excellence People Development As North West Chamber award winners, Cummins Mellor now go through to the finals in London. The National winners will be announced at the Chamber Awards Gala Dinner on [...]
28 September 2011
Zoe Surfs The Waves
Zoe Dyson, recruitment specialist at Cummins Mellor, swapped the busy office in Accrington with the media world this morning. Zoe appeared as a guest on Ted Robbins BBC Lancashire Radio Show to speak to callers and listeners about how to deal with being made redundant and what help there is out there for people in this [...]
7 September 2011
CMR feature as a case study for Regenerate Pennine Lancashire
Excerpt from Regenerate Pennine Lancashire news: The Directors of Cummins Mellor approached Regenerate Pennine Lancashire because of the opportunity to grow Personnel Checks and to improve their administrative processes and systems. Their administration process was paper based; labour intensive and very time consuming for staff. The company worked closely with Regenerate to ensure that they [...]
17 August 2011
New Appointment
Experienced business consultant Hayley Huddart has joined the senior management team at Cummins Mellor Recruitment in a Business Development role. Richard Mellor MD: “Cummins Mellor is in a period of expansion and is looking to increase the number of qualified recruitment consultants from the talented, in-house pool of young recruiters as well as considering [...]
20 July 2011
Agency Workers Regulations – Are you AWR ready?
The agency worker regulations come into force on October 1st 2011. Will you be ready for the changes? Read more >> For free advice on the AWR regulations phone 01254 239100
15 July 2011
We are HOT and that’s official!
Cummins Mellor are again listed in the Lancashire Business View Magazine’s HOT 100 – the comprehensive list of the top performing SMEs in Lancashire ranked before pre-tax profit Despite the difficult trading conditions many businesses are better placed having gone through difficult cost saving exercises and Cummins Mellor are exactly in this position. Streamlining [...]
6 July 2011
Red Nose Day Success
Cummins Mellor See Red Nadine’s cup cakes help feed 22 children in Kenya for a week! Cummins Mellor who saw red and raised funds for Red Nose Day received a certificate confirming that their efforts had contributed enough money to feed 22 children in Kenya, who have lost their parents to Aids, for a week. [...]
9 June 2011
Team Effort for Charity
Two local businesses joined forces to raise much needed funds for local charity the Rosemere Cancer Foundation. Friends, Michelle Mellor, Director at Cummins Mellor Recruitment and Jacky Godfrey Manager of Pandora Blackburn, arranged for their friends, family and colleagues to take part in a 5K fun run in Witton Park on Sunday. “It was a [...]
7 June 2011
Using a Recruitment Consultancy to make the Right Recruitment Decision for Your Business
After a recent study into job seekers behaviour (Guru Careers), it has been found that 83% of applicants to a job vacancy are not suitable for the position they apply for. Recruiting for a new position in any business is a timely exercise and with this amount of unsuitable people applying for the vacancy, does [...]
23 May 2011
Employers need to improve their interview skills to find that ideal match
It seems it is important to remember that it is not only the candidate who needs to prepare for an interview… but the interviewer. Poor Preparation (42%) and irrelevant questions (43%) have been identified as the most off-putting interviewer habits, and this lack of effort is reportedly causing stress. With over a third of interviewers [...]
12 May 2011
Jodie’s Joy at exam pass
REC exam success for Jodie The Clitheroe Advertiser reports on Jodie’s success Jodie was one of Four young recruiters to pass the REC exam from Cummins Mellor. Cummins Mellor are committed to training and development. Read more >>
27 April 2011
New Appointment for Legal & Finance
Cummins Mellor Recruitment is pleased to announce the third senior appointment this year. Caroline Medcalfe has joined the Accrington based recruitment agency as a Legal & Finance recruiter. Caroline’s appointment will strengthen CMR’s Accountancy and Finance Division. She will work closely with head of Accountancy & Finance, Vicky Lomas, as a permanent recruiter in the [...]