Blogs from across the Oscar Group

Celebrated global recruiter Oscar is expanding its United States services offering with the opening of a strategically placed office in Austin, nicknamed Silicon Hills and home to the world’s leading tech giants. The Austin, Texas office will support Oscar in its ambitious growth plans as it strengthens its international standing and continues along its stratospheric financi...

Leading international recruitment firm Oscar has made two senior promotions to fill the positions of Managing Director for the UK & Europe and the US after the business enjoyed their most successful year to date. Matthew Southworth leaves behind his role as Sales Director to become MD of the UK & Europe whilst Kevin Holt has been promoted from Director to MD of the Americas....

Be Comfortable Talking About The Uncomfortable Last Wednesday I was sat on the 'Recruiters View' panel at the Global Recruiter Summit in London with four other experienced recruiters sharing our collective insight on diversity and inclusion, we talked openly about what we’re doing in our own businesses to promote an inclusive culture and what support and advice we’re offerin...

Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been one thing that has barely changed for the majority of workers – the routine of 09:00 to 17:00, five days a week. The UK’s Trade Union Council (TUC) has called for a four-day maximum working week as part of its report into how changes to the current and future workplace can best benefit workers. The four day week has been triall...

Over the past several years, the oil and gas industry have had to traverse a range issue, after a long run of high and growing rig counts, mega-capital expenditure projects and plentiful capital to support investment. Problems arose when oil prices dropped suddenly in 2014 and 2015. After this event, oil companies who had been investing heavily based on their forecast began ...

Global Staffing Trends 2017 - What you need to know about the state of the recruitment industry. LinkedIn's Global staffing trends report is designed to help recruitment leaders and candidates alike understand the ongoing changes and statistics within the industry. The report is based on survey responses of over 2000 staffing recruitment professionals from around the world w...

Infographic: Visualizing the World's Deepest Oil Well. Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist.

Visualizing America's Changing Energy Mix Infographic. Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist.

WINNERS IN 2016 The biggest winners on the year were base metals and the oil and gas sector. Here’s how base metals did: Base Metal Iron Ore Zinc Nickel Aluminium Copper Q1 37% 20% -3.1% 3.8 0.1% Q2 -6.2% 13.1% 13.9% 7.2% 3.9% Q3 6.3% -3.2% 11.9% 1.4% -0.5% Q4 31.1% 26.1% -5% 4% 13.1% 2016 81% 65.7% 17.3% 17.3% 17.1% Iron ore and zinc were the best performing commodities on ...