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I am excited to announce the launch of moira", a new recruitment service that aims to provide a fresh and personal approach for clients and candidates across the Scottish Borders and beyond.

**Quick-start opportunity in Selkirk!**I’m looking for a Temporary Administrator to join a busy HR team in Selkirk.The g...
04/09/2026

**Quick-start opportunity in Selkirk!**

I’m looking for a Temporary Administrator to join a busy HR team in Selkirk.

The good news? You don’t need HR experience.

I’m much more interested in finding someone who’s organised, reliable and happy to get stuck in. If you’re the kind of person who keeps things running smoothly, works well with others and isn’t afraid to ask questions when needed, I’d love to hear from you.

The role is to cover a vacancy while permanent recruitment is underway, so it could last for a couple of months.

**I’m looking for someone who can start quickly.**

Know someone who’d be a great fit? Please tag them or share this post.

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Absolutely delighted to have been Highly Commended for New Business of the Year at the Scottish Borders Business Excelle...
04/09/2026

Absolutely delighted to have been Highly Commended for New Business of the Year at the Scottish Borders Business Excellence Awards!

Now, I know some of you might be thinking… hang on a minute, didn’t she win that award last year?
Apparently, you can still be a “new business” until you’re three years old, so I’m quite happy to keep milking my youth while I still can!

With over 1,400 entries across the awards this year, the competition was fierce, so to be shortlisted and then Highly Commended really does mean a huge amount.

A massive thank you to Emtelle, sponsors of the New Business of the Year category, for the recognition.

I was also absolutely delighted to see Your Local Friend Highly Commended in the Community Impact category, sponsored by Lowrie Property LTD. A glitzy awards ceremony apparently wasn’t quite the scene for three 17-year-olds, so it fell to their amazing Business Studies teacher and the driving force behind Young Enterprise at Earlston High School, Zoe Wright, to do the honours and proudly accept the award on their behalf! I know the team are absolutely over the moon to have been recognised.

Huge congratulations to the Scottish Borders Chamber of Commerce on another fantastic awards night, and particularly to Roz Haughey and Lee-Anne Gillie for everything that goes on behind the scenes to make an event like this happen.

And finally, congratulations to every nominee, finalist and award winner on the night. With so many entries, simply making that shortlist was an achievement in itself.

I might have to accept that next year I’ll finally be too old for New Business of the Year though…!

Aye been thinking doing it yourself costs nothing?Of course you can recruit yourself.Most businesses can.But that doesn'...
04/09/2026

Aye been thinking doing it yourself costs nothing?

Of course you can recruit yourself.

Most businesses can.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything.

Writing the advert.
Choosing where to advertise.
Going through the applications.
Screening candidates.
Searching for the people who haven't applied.
Arranging interviews.
Giving feedback.
Managing offers.

It all takes time.

And when you're already trying to run a business or manage a busy HR function, that time has to come from somewhere.

That's one of the reasons I sometimes scratch my head when businesses tell me they can't justify paying a recruitment fee.

Because the fee is visible.

The hours spent recruiting internally often aren't.

At moira", we take care of the time-consuming work of sourcing, searching, screening and speaking to candidates, so that by the time CVs reach you, they're people we genuinely believe are worth your time.

And with our permanent recruitment fee at 10% of the successful candidate's starting salary, outsourcing recruitment might not cost as much as you think either.

So perhaps the question isn't:

“Can we recruit this person ourselves?”

It's:

“Is this the best use of our time?”

Aye Been? Maybe it's time to think again.

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I was doing a piece of work last week and it got me thinking about some of the people I've met over the years.And the fu...
26/08/2026

I was doing a piece of work last week and it got me thinking about some of the people I've met over the years.

And the funny thing is, after all this time, there are some people and stories I've never forgotten.

One of them was a woman I worked with many years ago who hadn't worked for around 40 years.

On paper, she wasn't going to be the obvious candidate.

She had very little recent work experience and very little confidence.

So rather than concentrating on what she hadn't done, I spent time talking to her about the things she enjoyed doing.

Her hobbies. Her interests. What she did at home. The things that actually made her happy.

And that's when I discovered something quite unexpected........

She loved washing dishes.

Not many people would put that under the hobbies and interests section of their CV, but she genuinely enjoyed it.

And suddenly we had something to work with.

We arranged a work trial for her in a hotel kitchen, helping with the dishes.

That work trial became a part-time job.

But strangely, that's not the bit I remember most.

I remember her telling me later that she'd been on holiday for the first time..... to Cardiff.

For most of us, going away for a few days probably wouldn't feel particularly significant.

For her, it was huge.

She was earning her own money. Her confidence had grown. Her world had become a little bit bigger.

I've worked across recruitment and employability for a very long time and I've probably forgotten thousands of CVs.

But I've never forgotten her.

And perhaps that's one of the reasons I've never been particularly good at judging someone purely by what's written on a piece of paper.

Sometimes finding the right person isn't about ticking every box on a CV.

Sometimes it's about taking the time to have a conversation, asking the right questions and finding out what someone might be brilliant at.

Even if it happens to be washing dishes!

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Do you love providing great customer service?Not just answering a phone or replying to an email, but actually taking own...
26/08/2026

Do you love providing great customer service?

Not just answering a phone or replying to an email, but actually taking ownership, solving problems and becoming someone your customers know they can rely on?

I’m recruiting for a Customer Service Advisor to join a busy, established team in Hawick.

This is very much an office-based customer service role, where you’ll be looking after customer accounts, managing orders, dealing with enquiries and working with colleagues across the business to make sure customers get the service they expect.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from people with experience in:

• Office-based customer service

• Customer account management

• Order processing or sales support

• B2B customer environments

Experience of exports, shipping, customs or Incoterms would be a bonus, but it’s not essential.

Full-time, permanent

Monday–Friday | 8.30am–5pm

Based in Hawick

If you’re the person customers ask for because they know you’ll get it sorted, I’d love to hear from you.

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**Before you hit apply…**I spend a lot of time looking through CVs and applications, and quite often I come across peopl...
17/08/2026

**Before you hit apply…**

I spend a lot of time looking through CVs and applications, and quite often I come across people who could potentially be a really good fit for a role — but their CV doesn't make that obvious.

And I know there will be people who have applied for one of my vacancies and wondered:

**“Why haven't I been shortlisted? I could do that job.”**

And you may well be absolutely right.

But when I'm reviewing applications, I have to make my initial decision based on the information that's in front of me.

Unfortunately, when a vacancy attracts 50, 60 or sometimes 100+ applications, I can't contact every applicant to ask about missing experience, clarify dates or find out whether they have skills that haven't been included on their CV.

**That's why what you put on your CV really matters.**

It doesn't need to be fancy. It doesn't need clever graphics or pages and pages of information.

It just needs to help the person reading it understand:

What have you done?
What can you do?
What could you bring to this particular job?

And one really simple thing before you hit Apply on Indeed....check the CV you're actually sending.

I've seen applications where the CV is several years out of date, a current job is missing or the employment dates don't quite make sense.

Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to share some of the common things I see when reviewing applications and a few simple tips that might help.

This isn't about telling anyone what their CV should look like.

It's about helping you make sure that your experience, skills and potential aren't being missed.

**Because you might genuinely be perfect for the job. Just make sure your CV gives us the chance to see it.**

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Sometimes persistence pays off.Yesterday, after a long time trying to get an idea I've been developing in front of the r...
11/08/2026

Sometimes persistence pays off.

Yesterday, after a long time trying to get an idea I've been developing in front of the right people, I received a response from the Scottish Government.

On 21 July, I wrote to the First Minister, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport and the Minister for Business and Fair Work about Workforce Futures.

Yesterday, I heard back.

I've now been asked to submit my concept paper for consideration and so that the relevant policy leads can be involved in any follow-up discussions.

It's not a yes.

It's not funding.

And there's still a very long way to go.

But it's a conversation.

And that's all I've been trying to achieve.

Workforce Futures has grown from something I've seen time and time again throughout my career in employability and recruitment:

Businesses desperately need people, yet we still have people sitting outside the labour market who want to contribute.

So why can't we connect those two things differently?

Employer-led Sector Academies that train people in the skills and behaviours local businesses actually need.

A flexible, trained workforce that businesses can access when demand increases, without immediately committing to another permanent employee or facing high temporary agency costs.

Paid opportunities that can work around people's lives. Whether that's caring responsibilities, returning to the labour market, exploring a career, changing direction or simply wanting to earn some additional income.

And where the demand exists, a route into permanent employment.

But the bigger ambition is to keep more people economically active.

Because when people earn, they spend. When they spend locally, businesses benefit. When businesses grow, they create more opportunities.

I'm proposing that we test the model here in the Scottish Borders, measure the social and economic impact and, if it works, explore whether it could be replicated across Scotland.

I sent the paper yesterday.

I have no idea where the conversation will lead. It may lead somewhere. It may lead nowhere.

But sometimes getting your idea in front of the right people is the first hurdle.

And after a long time knocking on doors, it feels like I've finally got one to open.

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If you're from the Scottish Borders, you'll probably know exactly what “Aye Been” means.If you're not... you're about to...
10/08/2026

If you're from the Scottish Borders, you'll probably know exactly what “Aye Been” means.

If you're not... you're about to.

It's one of those phrases that's difficult to translate perfectly, but it goes something like this:

"Why do we do it that way?"
"Because we've aye been doing it that way."

And the more I thought about it, the more I realised...

Recruitment has a lot of Aye Beens.

We've aye been using that agency.
We've aye been paying that fee.
We've aye been advertising there.
We've aye been looking for candidates in the same places.
We've aye been doing the recruitment ourselves.
We've aye been assuming that because a recruiter is based somewhere, that's where they recruit.

But just because something has aye been done a certain way doesn't mean it's still the best way to do it.

And that's really what Aye Been by moira" is about.

Challenging some of those recruitment habits and assumptions we've perhaps stopped questioning.

The same agencies. The same fees. The same places. The same approach.

Because sometimes it takes someone asking a very simple question:
“Why?”

And if the answer is...
“Because we've aye been doing it that way.”

Maybe it's time to think again.

Aye Been by moira"

Born in the Scottish Borders. Relevant far beyond them.

10 vacancies.100s of applications.And an HR team that already has a full-time job.Sound familiar?Volume recruitment can ...
10/08/2026

10 vacancies.

100s of applications.

And an HR team that already has a full-time job.

Sound familiar?

Volume recruitment can very quickly become overwhelming.

It's not just finding people. It's advertising, screening, calls, interviews, shortlisting, candidate communication, offers, onboarding... and keeping good candidates engaged while you're doing all of it.

That's where we can step in.

Volume recruitment isn't new territory for moira".

Over the years, I've supported recruitment campaigns for Sainsbury's, Co-op, TK Maxx, Home Bargains, HGS, Spark Energy, People's Energy, Utility Warehouse, Sykes Cottages and On the Beach, amongst others.

So whether you're:
• opening a new site
• launching a new operation
• experiencing rapid growth
• recruiting for a new contract
• or simply facing more vacancies than your team has capacity to handle

moira" can become an extension of your recruitment team.
And you don't have to hand everything over.
Need someone to deal with 500 applications? We can.
Need help screening and shortlisting? We can.
Need support interviewing candidates? We can.
Want someone to take care of the whole campaign?
We can do that too.

We're based in Scotland, but our support certainly doesn't stop at the border.

So if you've got a volume recruitment campaign coming up anywhere in the UK, don't wait until your inbox is overflowing.

Give us a shout.

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"I applied for over 60 jobs and didn't get a single interview."It's something I hear far too often.Sometimes it's a lack...
07/08/2026

"I applied for over 60 jobs and didn't get a single interview."

It's something I hear far too often.

Sometimes it's a lack of experience... but more often than people realise, it's the CV.

As a recruiter, I review hundreds of CVs, and it's often the smallest details that make the biggest difference.

Missing employment dates.
A profile that could apply to anyone.
Listing responsibilities instead of achievements.
A CV that's never been tailored to the role.
Simple spelling or formatting mistakes.

On their own, they don't seem like a big deal.

But when an employer has 60 applications sitting in front of them, those little things can be the difference between being shortlisted... or being overlooked.

Your CV isn't just a record of where you've worked. It's your chance to show the value you can bring before you've even met an employer.

So, if you're applying for jobs and not getting the response you hoped for, don't automatically assume you're not good enough.

Your next job might not depend on more experience. It might just depend on a better CV.

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