Winning awards for doing just that, of course!
It’s fair to say that the 9-2-3 team are dedicated to the flexible working cause, and we take an awful lot of pride in doing flexible recruitment brilliantly. This year we’re honoured to have achieved both local and national recognition for our work.

I’ve been saying for a few years now that we’re in the midst of a workplace revolution – and these last twelve months I think proves that it’s well underway!

Now, I know that a blog about the logistical challenges of implementing flex in the workplace is not the most inspiring topic in the world.  As a passionate advocate of flexible working, it is all too easy for me to reel off reasons why it is so powerful.  The benefits to business are not in dispute - proven advantages include a happier, more productive workforce, less sick days taken by staff, increased profits, I could (and on many occasions, do) go on …………… But what people don’t hear about quite so often is exactly HOW businesses make flexible working work within their organisation.  

Perhaps it was the return of confidence or the break away from lego building, but something was telling me I was just so ready for a new opportunity. I was excited to tell people about what I was doing, I became EVEN more efficient with my time (if that is physically possible when already having a young family), it was like I had a new lease of life and, admittedly, such an ego boost, as things seemed to be going so well and clicking into place with work & life and the juggle. 

Like them or loathe them, video interviews are becoming a more popular choice for recruitment, especially if your job may be a remote working one.

We’ve popped together a few handy tips to think about if it’s the next stage in the process for you.

The phrase ‘returning to work after children’ seems to suggest to some people that you’re looking for a job that will be some sort of tepid compromise…something that you only accept because it works between school drop off at 8:03 and your youngest’s badminton lesson at 15:20.  NO THANK YOU!   I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love our three children and I will of course be claiming at least fifty percent of the glory if any of them end up on an Olympic podium, badminton racquet in hand but my career is exactly that – mine.  Returning to work after children for me was first and foremost about finding something that would be a clear and positive progression in a long and happy career.

Flexible working means different things to different people. At 9-2-3, we believe that flexible working means anything that’s not 9-5 in an office. In fact, here at 9-2-3, we’re aiming to disrupt that old-fashioned 9-5 concept, and promote flexible working for everyone. The technology is here to enable us all to work at different times and from different places.