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We are proud to announce that we’ve been awarded the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Silver Award. This acknowledges us as an employer that: demonstrates exceptional support to the Armed Forces community actively communicates and upholds a positive stance to our employees ...

We’re excited to announce that we’ve changed the name of our central resource team to the National Recruitment Centre (NRC)! What’s more, the NRC has now teamed up with gap 24/7 so candidates can apply for jobs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! What is the NRC? The NRC supports all of our onsite cli...

Slavery is anything but a thing of the past. In fact, it’s estimated that modern slavery affects a staggering 40 million people worldwide, 13,000 of which are said to live right here in the UK. A main form of modern slavery is forced labour, meaning individuals are forced to work against their wi...

In Forbes v LHR Airport Limited, the appellant was a security officer. The appellant’s colleague, Ms S, posted an image of a doll referred to in the case report as a “golliwog” onto her private Facebook page with the caption: “Let’s see how far he can travel before Facebook takes him off”. The pi...

It’s estimated that in our lifetime we spend approximately 90,000 hours at work. Sound depressing? Well, it doesn’t have to. Not if you truly enjoy your job, get along with your co-workers and love the environment you work in. I’ve only been a member of the gap personnel team for three weeks now,...

Last week it was announced that Boots, the UK’s leading pharmacy led health and beauty retailer is considering closing over 200 stores. The announcement comes not long after it was confirmed that Debenhams, another large UK retailer is closing 22 of its stores immediately and by early next year t...

The age of convenience: how technology can improve candidate experience and what gap personnel has done to digitalise its recruitment strategy. The recruitment industry is experiencing a period of growth. In an age characterised by technological breakthroughs, dubbed ’The Fourth Industrial Revolu...

Today is International Women's Day! To celebrate, we are creating a chain whereby some of our leading ladies within the business nominate and share stories of their inspirational females. If you are nominated, share a story of your inspirational female and give us some background and detail as to...

National Apprenticeship Week! We’re super proud to support #NAW2019 by showcasing some of the amazing talent within gap personnel. Meet Georgia Rowe and Jade Price, our super HR duo from our Wrexham HQ who have both completed their apprenticeships at gap personnel and are now onto their second! Q...

There are approximately 40,000 recruitment agencies operating within the UK; in a market where being real, accountable, and truly consultative is a scarcity, we decided it was time to take another look at our culture and values to understand what makes gap, gap. Over the last year we have redefin...