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Founder of Social Mobility Green Skills Week Rob Powell talks to us about the role of apprenticeships in CSR and green careers

Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

We see it as our role as a responsible business to continue to engage with a diverse range of initiatives within Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), to learn more about good practice from the people we work and connect with, and to review our own processes against what we learn. As part of Social Mobility Green Skills Week (SMGSW) which took place last month, our Responsible Business lead CJ ...

Why and how businesses can embrace the new flexible working legislations with confidence

Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

A welcome change Callum and I have championed flexible working for a long time. We’re both busy parents with young children, and we know how impossible the juggle can be for working parents these days. This extends to anyone with domestic responsibilities or other commitments that leave them stretched, burnt out and unable to cope. Many of our team are parents, or have people they care for and ...

How I overcame rejection as a young candidate and went onto have a glowing career alongside IVF and becoming a mother to two autistic children

Posted on Friday, March 8, 2024 by Keira Couzens

Keira Couzens is our Head of Business Services. She joined us on an apprenticeship 15 years ago, fresh from school, and in her time with us she’s been through IVF, become a mum-of-two and adapted to her two children’s autism diagnoses. Here Keira shares her story and explains why she’s determined to be a role model for her kids, as well how businesses need to adapt to better support women to be ...

Addressing gender disparity and empowering women to thrive in their careers

Posted on Friday, March 8, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

A long way to go for gender equality in business When Callum and I became Co-owners of Ryder Reid in 2018, we took the time to really think about our values and establish how we were going to ensure that as a business we continue to contribute positively to the world around us. As a gender-balanced organisation originally founded by two pioneering women (at a time when purely female-led ...

Why we’re happy to be sponsoring a grassroots girls’ football team

Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

Supporting young talent We know that empowering rising stars is paramount for tapping into future talent and ensuring the ongoing success of any business. Championing young people with a flair for the field not only helps to maintain a dynamic team which can adapt with the game, it also ensures that when the time is ripe there will be a succession of capable experts ready to take the ball and run ...

How law firms are adopting ESG and why it's crucial for employee and client satisfaction

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 by CJ Obi

Since joining Ryder Reid I’ve supported law firms to grow their Sustainability and Social Impact teams, helping them to build what’s becoming an increasingly crucial pillar for all businesses. In that time, I’ve connected with some of the brightest and most forward-thinking professionals in this space, all the while learning more about how the legal sector is approaching Environment, Social and ...

Why we’re so passionate about empowering young people to access the training they deserve

Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 by Callum Smith

The education gap Not everyone is empowered with the tools and support they need to access employment, let alone follow their aspirations and fulfil their potential. Schooling is such a crucial first step in every young person’s career, and yet a shocking 94,900 children are missing out on education in the UK*, meanwhile globally one in five children drop out of school due to poverty and other ...

LinkedIn is great – but can it really help you to recruit the right people?

Posted on Friday, October 13, 2023 by Andrea Prendergast

There’s no doubting LinkedIn’s power and popularity. It turned 20 earlier this year, having been launched in May 2003, nine months before Facebook. The stats are amazing. Available in 26 languages, LinkedIn now has more than 930m members in 200 countries, and its phenomenal growth is unlikely to slow down any time soon. In fact, LinkedIn was growing at a rate of two new members every second, but ...

Why we’ve just opened an office in the North West

Posted on Monday, January 10, 2022 by Andrea Prendergast

As someone who was born and brought up in Liverpool, I’m delighted to announce that Ryder Reid Legal has opened a North West office. It’s our first outside of London and it’s an exciting new step that will better enable us to meet the needs of international law firm clients, many of which already have offices in Manchester or Liverpool. Second legal hub Although London will always be the centre ...

Helping young disadvantaged people to achieve their potential

Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 by Callum Smith

During our recent brand refresh, my Ryder Reid Legal co-owner, Andrea, and I spent a lot of time discussing what our passion was, why we enjoy what we do and how, as a legal recruitment agency, we could improve. One area that we wanted to particularly focus on was corporate social responsibility. As a company, we believe that we have an obligation to help and advance those less fortunate than ...