NO MORE COMMUTER CHAOS!

Commuters are often unhappier and unhealthier than their counterparts who work closer to home. So why don’t more people give up their daily commute and look for work where they live? Hays Construction & Property, the UK’s leading recruitment consultancy to the built environment, has found that many people are concerned that working locally is equal to career suicide: the end of the ladder and the end of a generous pay packet. However, London doesn’t have to signal the pinnacle of your career.

Working in your home town, rather than commuting to London, offers an improved work-life balance and in a job such as recruitment there are still huge opportunities to progress your career. Those people with sales experience and a customer-focused background might be suitable for a career change to recruitment – it will be challenging, there won’t be any limits to where you can take your career and you will be well rewarded for it.

Duncan Bullimore, Regional Director at Hays Construction & Property in Reading, comments: “Working for a specialist recruitment consultancy has changed significantly over the last few years. Those who are career minded should realise that excellent medium to long term prospects exist within recruitment – everything from staff management to customer facing roles as well as positions in support services are available. We are growing so quickly that we are moving to much larger premises in Reading town centre and are looking for ambitious individuals to help us continue to grow. Why not stroll to work in Reading as opposed to fighting for a space on the trains and tubes for the 'privilege' of working an hour away in London?"

If you are interested in working in the Hays Construction & Property office in Reading contact Will Pearce on 020 7259 8804 or visit www.hayscareers.com

Note to Editor

Hays Construction & Property is the UK's largest specialist recruitment consultancy to the built environment. Formed in 1958, Hays Construction & Property has over 80 offices throughout the UK and Ireland, as well as locations in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. With a support network of over 700 local consultants, Hays Construction and Property places candidates in permanent and temporary positions for hundreds of private and public sector organisations. It is also part of Hays Plc, the FTSE 250 Company which has specialist recruitment operations in a number of key sectors worldwide. 

For more information please contact:
Claire Fowler, Senior Communications Executive
Hays Construction & Property
t: 020 7222 6543
e: Claire.s.fowler@hays.com

August, 2007