Insights and Career Advice

We are delighted that JCW USA has been recognised at the 15th best small company to work for in New York in the recent Crain’s 2019 Best Place to Work in NYC list. Now in its 12th year, the annual listing is assembled in partnership with Best Companies Group and more than 20,000 local employees were surveyed with questions about workplace experience and culture. Survey resul...

On Friday January 3rd 2020, people from across the global JCW Group came together for our annual Black Tie event at The Ned in London. One of the biggest dates in the JCW calendar, we celebrated the year's top performers with our annual awards and we had a number of outstanding sales performances that smashed previous company records. We also celebrated the collective busine...

I know the government is promising to 'review' IR35 but I'm a sceptic who already wrote this post so... I'm back on my favourite topic! But this time our friends at HRMC have something new up their sleeves. The ever elusive CEST Tool has been updated. For those of you not as emotionally attached to it as me, CEST is the online tool to 'Check employment status for tax' that i...

Hi, I'm Emily, the Head of Compliance at JCW Resourcing. I have nearly 10 years’ experience working in compliance within the recruitment sector but prior to around 18 months ago, I didn't pay much attention to IR35. I didn't really have to. And if I didn't care, then no one did. The 'glory days' of leaving the liability for IR35 in the capable hands of the contractor themsel...

Our charity team at JCW drove a van full of warm clothing, outdoor shelter items and baby care products to the refugee camps in Dunkirk and Calais to provide help for women and children who have left their homes due to war, conflict and persecution. JCW's trip to the camps gave us the opportunity to meet the people our donations were helping and to experience first hand what...

Last week we had our End of Summer Party to celebrate the summer (did London really get one?) and all the success our clients, candidates and JCW have had in 2019 so far. It’s been a really productive year for JCW and we were pleased to catch up with long-standing clients and candidates from Shell, Deutsche Bank, Deloitte, Barclays, Capgemini and more, to see how they were g...

We are proud to have once again been named in the Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in America. With revenue growth over 3 years of 281%, we ranked 1,471 in the list. Our position in the 2019 list sees us in the top 30% of the country's fastest growing businesses and the 25th fastest growing business within the Human Resources category. Situated on Madison Av...

A 2018 report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission found that a third of employers believe that women who become pregnant and new mothers in work are ‘generally less interested in career progression’ compared to other employees and that 51% of employers believe that there is sometimes resentment amongst employees towards women who are pregnant or on maternity leave....

“What’s the most constructive CV advice you can share based on your experience of working with hiring managers at global firms and consultancies we all want to break into?” Every day we request feedback from our clients about the CVs that made it into their shortlists and we are going to share that insight with you now. Once you’ve taken what you need from this article, you ...

The JCW Group enjoyed an afternoon off for their annual boat party on the Thames last Friday afternoon and what a day it was for it! We beat the odds of getting a sunny day on both a Friday and on the day of our boat party (ever the serious gamble in London) and with highs of 25 degrees - it was a great one. A last-minute boat emergency saw us upgrade to a boat double the si...