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This morning we’re attending Guidant Global’s wellbeing talk, titled ‘Driving performance with a people first strategy’. The discussion will touch upon how wellbeing and inclusion can be utilised to drive employee performance.

We would like to thank our clients, candidates and community for the ongoing support as we have reached LinkedIn 8,000 followers!

Here at BioTalent I am a part of the medical device team specialising in R&D (Research and Design). My day to day agenda primarily involves speaking to R&D specialists and experts –so naturally I have picked up a thing or two.

There are no resting grinch faces today as our teams brought some festive spirit to our offices, in our annual Christmas Jumper day.

Last night we held our annual Christmas party at St Bart’s Brewery, where our squad indulged in a delicious 3-course meal and sleighed the night away. 

‘Tis the season! We’re feeling festive in our offices as tonight we have our annual Christmas Party to recognise and celebrate BioTalent’s end of year growth, collaboration and development. 

We attended the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) ‘The Future of Work is Accessible’ conference, an evening of live polls, inspiring talks, key insights, and knowledge sharing with the agenda on employing and recruiting people with disabilities.

Our D&I and CSR ambassador Lucy Neal is attending RIDI's event, ‘The Future of Work is Accessible’ this evening.

BioTalent is proud to announce a new charity partnership for 2020 - with Smart Works Charity Greater Manchester, which is part of the national Smart Works charity, providing high-quality clothes, mentoring and interview training to help unemployed women back into jobs.

Meat-free Friday is back in our offices! We support the ongoing Climate Strike and to show this, we implement several CSR strategies such as cycle-to-work, clothes swaps and a monthly meat-free lunch.

Following on from winning the ‘Service Industries Entrepreneur of the Year’ regional award at The Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2019, our BioTalent team are beyond proud to announce that our Directors Ashley Lawrence and Ben Adams are through to the national finals!

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month - we will remember those who gave their lives for our freedom.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃 Today we made our office spooktacular and even had our very own pumpkin patch.

Happy Diwali! Nothing makes us shine brighter than a five-day festival full of fun, friends and fireworks. 

We turned our Friday pink for Breast Cancer Now last week! Our office was like an office filled with pink flamingos as our team raised £60.40 and awareness for life-saving breast cancer research!

Last night our team got suited and booted for the Tiara Awards 2019, representing 'Growth Company of the Year' and 'Best Recruitment Company to work for £5 to £20m'.

A pitcher is worth a thousand words… Oktoberfest was a barrel of laughs for our high-achieving perm team.

Our BioTalent family are thrilled to announce that our Directors Ashley Lawrence, MBA and Ben Adams have won the ‘Service Industries Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award at The NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2019.

Today we want to take the time to talk about the importance of self-love and raise awareness of mental health. 

On your marks, get set, BAKE! Our star bakers Alex and Chiara won this year’s Recruitment Agency Bake-off, presenting a fabulous ‘Day of the Dead’ Halloween-themed skull cake. 

From pilates at sunrise to fine dining at dusk, our yoga fanatics have returned from their Wellness Retreat, zenned out and chilled out. 

And breathe… some of our team are off on a Wellness Retreat this afternoon for a well-deserved rest. 

Today we stand in solidarity with the younger and future generations to come as we join the #climatestrike to demand change on our home, the place we call earth.

This afternoon we attended APSCo's Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Meeting, held at Gallagher's London HQ.

Baking news! From Biscoff Bakes to Brownie Bites, and a mouth-watering lemon drizzle, two worthy winners from our squad will be represented at The Great British Recruitment Agency Bake Off on Saturday 5th October.

Our sun-kissed team have returned from the Golden Coast with a Beverly Hills tan and a Hollywood twang. 

Our thrill-seeker Izzy Pike completed a 529ft-abseil off Broadgate Tower for the incredible charity, Orchid Cancer Appeal last weekend.

We want to take this day to remind everyone that help is just a text or phone call away.

Our BioTalent team are delighted to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for the APSCo Awards 2019, under the category ‘Recruitment Company of the Year under £3m’.

Corporate social responsibility helps to build trust, raise awareness and encourages social change. Although there are tens of thousands of companies doing their bit, large global corporations’ efforts can have far-reaching results that can impact on major world issues - from hunger and health to global warming.

We are on cloud nine as we share our success of being shortlisted for the prestigious 'Investors in People' Awards 2019 for ‘Employee Engagement’ and ‘Employer of the Year Gold (50-249 people)’.

In light of the recent Amazonia disaster, we want to take some time today to think about how we can make small changes to help protect our planet.

We are super proud to have been shortlisted at the Tiara Awards 2019 for 'Growth Company of the Year' and 'Best Recruitment Company to Work For £5 to £20M'.

Our BioTalent team are beyond ecstatic, as we are delighted to announce that our Directors Ashley Lawrence and Ben Adams have been shortlisted for the 'Service Industries Entrepreneur of the Year' category at this year's Natwest GBEA 2019.

10 patients who were almost certainly not going to survive after going through chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants, without success, have been given a lifeline with CAR-T Therapy.

We don’t just organise events for our external community, we organise events internally for key stakeholders. We thoroughly enjoyed our IR35 event last night at Cass Business Executive Centre! Our industry-leading speakers covered employer responsibilities and recent changes in government legislation, while gaining useful feedback from our clients.

Our BioTalent team thoroughly enjoyed their incentive day out to Henley-on-Thames watching the races.

We hope you all had a lovely weekend celebrating London Pride! Here at BioTalent, we are proud to support 50 years of the LGBT+ movement and Pride March.

Our BioTalent team took on a 10 mile challenge this bank holiday weekend and took part in Tough Mudder Inc to push themselves to the limit and raise money for charity. We knew they could do it, after all, it’s in their DNA!