Non-Competes Are Under Fire. Sales Notice Periods Are Next
October 14, 2026
Ministers will curb non-competes but have not said how. What it means if your next senior sales hire is stuck serving a long notice period.
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The Budget Won't Fix Your Senior Sales Hire
October 21, 2026
The CBI wants cheaper hiring in the Budget, but for a senior sales role the saving is small and the cost of waiting is much bigger.
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TransUnion Promoted Its Sales Chief From Within. Should You?
October 7, 2026
TransUnion filled its top sales job from inside. Before you copy that, ask whether your own sales manager is ready for it.
The Sales Hire Now Comes With a Longer Paper Trail
September 29, 2026
From 1 October, employees get six months to bring a tribunal claim, not three. It changes how a senior sales hire should be made.
Vacancies Hit a Four-Year Low. The Sales Hire Still Counts
September 21, 2026
Vacancies are falling across the UK, but the one sales hire a business does make now carries more weight than it did eighteen months ago.
Fever-Tree's Growth Is Real. So Is the Margin Hit
September 14, 2026
Revenue can grow while profit quietly shrinks, and that gap usually lands on whoever ends up running commercial delivery day to day.
The Sales Hiring Freeze Just Thawed
September 4, 2026
Sales hiring is moving again after nearly four years stuck, and the best candidates won't sit around waiting for you to catch up.
Business Growth Is Back. Sales Headcount Hasn't Caught Up
August 26, 2026
Growth is picking up again, but sales headcount hasn't moved yet, and that gap is starting to cost the businesses still waiting to act.
The Salary Was the Problem. Nobody Had Said So.
August 21, 2026
Two months of trying had produced nobody. The person spec was fine. The money was never going to land in that area.
I'd Rather Send You Nobody Than Somebody Who's All Right
August 21, 2026
A promise from the person who owns the business, about what we won't do. Mostly it's about not wasting your afternoon.