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Birthday Celebrations Continue at Norfolk CIPD Conference

Details: Published: Wednesday, 16 April 2014 00:00

During US2U Consulting’s 8^th birthday week, we were pleased to support the Norfolk Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference. In addition to having a stand complete with birthday cake and balloons, Rachel Blackburn delivered three seminars focusing on developing Influencing Skills.

“It was great to work with so many people from the local HR community and I believe that I have been able to pass on practical tools to help develop influencing skills which should make a positive impact on so many organisations across Norfolk ” said Rachel.

US2U Consulting makes Recruitment Film for ABC Taxis

Details: Published: Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:00

An excellent example as to how US2U Consulting can incorporate tailor-made films into your recruitment and staff engagement strategies:

US2U On Set with ABC Taxis

Details: Published: Wednesday, 09 April 2014 00:00

We had a great afternoon photographing 13 of ABC Taxis' eco cars in Norwich.

It was ironic that we were photographing the anti-pollution cars on the high pollution day - you can only just see Norwich Cathedral in the background!

Vacancy - UK Southern Area Sales Person

Details: Published: Thursday, 06 February 2014 00:00

Passionate to Sell World Class Products with World Class Service

Package: c£45k including base salary, commissions, bonuses and car allowance plus benefits Location: Home based in M4 corridor

With a strong award winning international reputation for delivering high quality products and customer service, our client is looking for an accomplished Sales Person to define, develop and execute sales plans and initiatives to grow the business in the southern region of the UK.

You must be able to clearly demonstrate your ability to work with colleagues to:

Deliver world class application engineering solutions to meet customer requirements
Use customer and prospect contact tools to maintain and develop existing and new customers through appropriate propositions
Support end users, distributors and system integrators to facilitate innovative solutions in line with the unique technology, feeding back practical improvements to the Research and Development Team as appropriate

This role requires a track record of achieving sales growth in a niche market as

well as managing major account customers and large contracts in a technical environment.

If you are results orientated, keen to learn, ideally have a degree preferably in a physics

or engineering subject or an engineering based HND/HNC combined with excellent influencing and time and priority management skills and will thrive on the opportunity of making a real difference then please apply.

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Being Better at Managing People with Norfolk Chamber of Commerce

Details: Published: Friday, 31 January 2014 00:00

"Very enjoyabe session."

"Good event and subjects!"

"I think the Chamber Sessions are an excellent idea, I look forward to attending future Sessions on wider topics."

"A thought provoking session on Managing People. Useful tools provided to use."

"Very informative and relevant."

"Really informative and excellent delivery of the topic, very helpful."

"Very good, informative session. Well presented."

"Really interesting concepts and ideas were presented by a trainer I'd never come across before, but who was really good at motivating me to do new things in the office."

These are some of the comments from Rachel Blackburn’s session which focused on Staff engagement, Adapting your leadership style, Dealing with difficult conversations and Coaching to raise standards of performance.

Inspiring the Future

Details: Published: Friday, 20 December 2013 00:00

We were pleased to attend the Sheringham High School 'Inspiring the Future' Careers event on Thursday 19 December. The event was designed as part of the School's Careers Education programme for Year 9 students who will be choosing their GCSE subjects in March next year. They are trying to give them a flavour of the kind of skills they need for today's job market. They also want to motivate them to work hard and achieve their best results in order to maximise their choices and opportunities.

"The initial feedback from the students and School staff was very positive," said Rachel Blackburn.

Supporting Red Balloon

Details: Published: Friday, 20 December 2013 00:00

For the second year running we were pleased to support Red Balloon Learner Centres charity with their fundraising event in Norwich.

The aim of Red Balloon is the recovery of bullied children. They provide an 'intensive care' full-time education for children aged between 9-18 who are unable to go to school because they have been severely bullied or who have suffered trauma, such as the death of a parent, abuse, rape or some other experience that makes them particularly vulnerable. At least half of the students they take have attempted or seriously considered suicide.

US2U Consulting donated the use of a urn for the mulled wine and Rachel Blackburn read a poem she had written, titled 'The Festive Season in Norfolk'.

"We were pleased that US2U Consulting were able to support us and we really liked the poem!" said Dan Kelly, Chair of Trustees.

US2U Visits Middle East with UKTI

Details: Published: Monday, 16 December 2013 00:00

US2U Consulting's Rachel Blackburn went on a recent UK Trade and Investment Trade Mission, focussing on education and learning, to Qatar, Oman and Abu Dhabi. The aim of the trip was to develop the US2U Consulting business across the Middle East, with a view to taking its core competencies and assisting business across the region. The delegation comprised staff from universities as well as privately owned learning and development companies.

"We met many interesting people who appeared enthusiastic to develop business and partnerships during 2014", said Rachel Blackburn.

US2U Consulting supports the James Milner Foundation

Details: Published: Monday, 16 December 2013 00:00

US2U Consulting were proud to attend the James Milner Foundation's Come Fly With Me charity ball, held in Manchester. It was a great evening having dinner underneath Concorde and enjoying a wide range of entertainment and activities.

Most importantly, the event raised over £100,000 for charities Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, the NSPCC and Help for Heroes.

Pictured are US2U Consulting's Rachel and Kerwin Blackburn.

Vacancy - Head of Research and Development

Details: Published: Friday, 15 November 2013 00:00

An Opportunity to Make a Real Difference - Package: £85k salary, OTE £100k plus benefits Location: Cambridgeshire

With a strong international reputation for delivering high quality products and customer service, our client is looking for an accomplished Manager to lead the Research and Development Team to understand customers’ needs, research, innovate, develop, introduce, maintain and enhance products through their lifecycle; developing world class solutions. You must be able to clearly demonstrate your ability to work with colleagues to:

Build, motivate, sustain and develop a top flight Research and Development Team that delivers in line with the vision
Deliver a clear road map to support the 5 year plan
Deliver robust programme, project and budgetary management
Deliver all aspects of product design and support documentation in line with quality standards and international regulations

This role requires a track record of leading teams to successfully develop new products as well as optimizing/improving existing ones to be best in class, in a mechanical and electronic engineering environment. If you have a BSc, MSc or PhD in Engineering, have excellent analytical, interpersonal and priority management skills and will thrive on the opportunity of making a real difference then please apply. Chartered Engineer status and/or a management qualification would be an advantage.