After weeks, months and sometimes years of good sales and hard work completing tenders, RFI's and proposals, detailed legal contracts and lots of late nights, you have won the new contract – yipppeee! Its great news for your client, for the business, for the sales teams and for marketing but what happens now? The reality dawns….. now we have to deliver it, we need to deliver what we agreed in the contract, we need to mobilise…..fast.

What makes a successful mobilisation?

Winning a new contract can often be stressful and very time consuming. Beyond the signed contract it is mobilisation that kicks off the life of a new project and makes it easy for everyone to do his or her jobs well. A good mobilisation can make the difference between a successful FM contract and one that is besieged by problems. This is why it is really important to consider having a specialist mobilisation team with the unique skills to create a specific mobilisation plan involving all the stakeholders to deliver a new contract smoothly and successfully.

300 North are delighted to be sponsoring Paralympic Athlete Callum Hall. Callum is 26 years old and originally from Yeadon in West Yorkshire. He was paralysed in September 2012 after stepping on a sea urchin in Greece. This caused an epidural abscess on his spine and resulted in paraplegia. Callum was passionate about sport, being a PE teacher and playing football before his accident. He took up wheelchair racing in 2014 after hearing about it from ex patients at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

10 Great Reasons to Work in Facilities Management – so what is stopping you!

If you are considering a career change or looking for your first job, then a career in facilities management may offer many opportunities. Facilities Management is the total management of all services and built environment infrastructure that supports the core business of an organisation. Good facilities management improves the efficiency and productivity of a company, its staff and even its clients.

Here are 10 good reasons why it's a great career option:-

With virtually full employment in the UK, what does this mean to your FM recruitment strategy?

Stay calm and work with experts!

What is meant by full employment?

Do we have full employment in FM?

So what does this mean for your FM recruitment strategy?

Stay calm and work with experts!

With recent announcements that the UK has reached full employment, and has the lowest levels of unemployment since 1975 at just 4%, we take a look at what that means to our clients who are in pursuit of the highest quality FM candidates.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the brand new 300 North website and blog. You will hopefully by now have seen our new, modern and easily navigable website. You will notice I am sure, the easy to find latest jobs and simple options to upload your cv's, post new job opportunities, apply for posts or just find out a bit more about us and the team who are working with you.

"I have worked with Theresa and 300 North for around 2 years across several recruitment campaigns, during this period I have found Theresa to be one of the few people working in recruitment who actually listens to what we require and goes above and beyond to meet these needs.

Hiring remote based staff across large areas is always a tough challenge and I am usually very skeptical about handing over a search to a recruiter who may not be familiar with our company, job functions, requirements, and culture. However, Theresa has grasped everything, and has done an outstanding job in providing us with a slate of qualified candidates who are properly prepared and know about the job and the company. I would have no hesitation in recommending 300 North to any employer looking for an excellent quality of service and a high success rate to match."

"As a busy director of an engineering business, I was cynical about recruitment companies based on previous experiences until I was introduced to 300 North. The last few roles I needed to recruit for were very specialist and 300 North took the time to understand the business and the individual requirements. Their no nonsense, non salesy and professional approach to finding me the right people has been really refreshing. They have found really high quality people in a short space of time having properly referenced and interviewed them before I needed to consider them myself. I believe their approach is professional and helped to make my life easier, shortcutting the usual unnecessary review and interview process at my end.

I have found 300 North to be a really personal service and I will definitely be using them for all of my future recruitment needs - I would positively recommend them to anyone"

“Jenny at 300 North placed me in a HVAC Engineer role. She kept me up to date with what was going on throughout the recruitment process and was always very friendly. Jenny also kept in touch after I had started the job to check it was the right role for me. Jenny is very enthusiastic and couldn't be any more helpful; I would be happy to work with her again in the future and would recommend her to friends who are looking for a new opportunity.”

"Having worked in the law enforcement industry for a number of years, I was struggling to change my career path. I had previously joined a number of recruitment agencies and applied for a number of jobs but never had a response.

On applying for a job through 300 North, I felt they acted as a brilliant communication link between myself and prospective employer. Theresa contacted me within a day of applying for the job. She was wonderful at answering my questions, explaining the recruitment process, job requirements and liaising between myself and the prospective company.

As I have never worked in the trade industry, I had limited knowledge of trade test. She offered me great advice and support through the whole recruitment process and gave me regular and timely updates even over the Christmas holiday period.

I would like to personally thank Theresa and her team. Without their help and support I would not have been successful through the recruitment process.

I have highly recommended 300 North to my family and friends, and will not hesitate to contact them in the future."

Our business is partnering exceptional talent with industry leading businesses. However, this post is not about selling our wares to you.

We simply want to share our experience and specialist knowledge of facilities management to create a series of posts, which will highlight critical issues facing this industry.