Category Archives: Newpoint Capital

Assessing a CV

How to Spot a Great Candidate These days it’s easy to find yourself inundated with CVs for the jobs you advertise. With people working longer than ever before, and with an increasing number of graduates entering the job market every year, it seems like there are more candidates for each position than ever before. Keith […]

Preparing for your first interview

A young candidate’s guide to securing a great job offer Types of interviews Firstly, let’s look at the fact that there are actually a number of different types of job interview. In some cases, you’ll only need to succeed at one of these to land the role. In others, particularly at large graduate employers, you […]

Focusing on Retention of Staff

Writing for the Newpoint Capital website this week, company founder Keith Beekmeyer wonders if companies focus hard enough on retention of staff rather than leaving it to chance. Whether someone stays with a company long-term or short-term is actually within that company’s control,  as Keith points out with a series of observations based on his […]

Attracting Young Professionals to the Workplace

How to attract, hire, and keep the best calibre young staff; both graduates and non-graduates. It is becoming increasingly important to attract and retain young talent, whether they come from University or from a working / college background. Millennials — people who are 30 years old and younger — already make up a significant proportion […]

Is London no longer the Finance Capital of the World?

One of the great tragedies of the Brexit uncertainty and ongoing chaos, has been the loss of world financial capital status for the City of London. Here we’ll examine whether London has lost it’s world financial capital status, as well as looking at how it gained the title in the first place, and whether it […]