What Does a Reduced Headcount in the Army Mean for the Ex-Forces Market?
Defence spending is set to increase by £24bn over the next four years as plans for new capabilities around electronic warfare are taking precedence. As part of this major overhaul of the armed forces, the size of the forces is set to reduce to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of changes aimed to move […]
How Sustainability Can Help You to Attract Better Business, Clients and Candidates
In our previous blog, we discussed the importance of sustainability being at the top of your business agenda, along with carbon neutrality and sustainable operations. With so many companies either already achieving carbon neutrality, or putting a plan in place to do so by 2030, there is very little room left for organisations who are […]
Why Sustainability Should be Top of Your Business Agenda
Creating, updating or developing a business strategy or agenda is never a simple or straightforward task. Not only are people’s ideas and opinions being taken into consideration, but there is also the unpredictability of what may or may not stand the test of time, or be achievable at all. However, with that being said, there […]
How You Can Improve Your Inclusion and Diversity Strategy
In our last blog, we looked at the importance of an inclusion and diversity strategy. We covered how, besides being morally and ethically right, workplace diversity also results in better business performance, innovation, candidate attraction, and overall success. This week, we’re jumping in deeper. We’re teaching you how to improve your inclusion and diversity strategy […]
The Importance of an Inclusion and Diversity Strategy For Employers
Running or managing a business can feel a little strategy-heavy. There’s a strategy for sales, growth, marketing, recruitment, retention – you name it, and there’s a strategy for it. But one strategy you should never overlook or underestimate is your inclusion and diversity strategy. Promoting equality and diversity in the workplace isn’t just ethically, morally […]
What Are the Top Transferable Skills From a Military Career?
“What skills can you bring to this position?” It’s a question many ex-forces personnel dread, and that’s if you’ve made it past the long list of essential and desired skills on the job advertisement. But it needn’t be. You might feel you’ve little to offer by way of office experience, commercial acumen or business know-how. […]
OWOA’s 2021 Mission Statement
2020 was a hard (if not brutal) year for all of us, both personally and professionally. We had the start of Covid-19 that swept through the world and took a real swipe at our inner resilience. We also unfortunately lost our amazing MD Mike Williams last year after a battle to cancer. He will be […]