Elvis Eckardt Recruitment

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment A bootstrapped business that targets Industry Leaders, SMEs, Start-Ups and the Big Four.

Clubs: What if your sponsors could generate income for you simply by recruiting?Sponsors: What if your next hire could s...
02/09/2026

Clubs: What if your sponsors could generate income for you simply by recruiting?

Sponsors: What if your next hire could strengthen both your business and the club you already support?

Through our Talent Partnerships:

- Vacancies are registered free
- Businesses only pay following a successful placement
- One-third of our recruitment fee goes directly back to the club

Clubs gain a new income stream.

Sponsors receive professional recruitment support.

Communities benefit from stronger local organisations.

We’re looking to speak with more sports clubs and sponsors who want to turn commercial partnerships into something genuinely valuable.

Interested, or know a club or business that should be involved? Tag them below or message us directly.

https://www.elvis-eckardt.com/talent-partnerships/

If you’re a hiring manager buried under 500 CVs for a single role, or a candidate getting ghosted after four rounds of i...
02/09/2026

If you’re a hiring manager buried under 500 CVs for a single role, or a candidate getting ghosted after four rounds of interviews, I promise you’re not crazy. The market is just plain weird right now.

Thanks to new AI tools, candidates can now blast out 200 generic applications before they finish breakfast. It means internal HR teams are drowning in CVs.

The irony? It’s never been easier to apply for a job, but it’s never been harder to actually get noticed.

Because companies are terrified of making a bad hire, decision cycles are dragging out forever. We’re seeing three, four, even five rounds of interviews for mid-level roles. If a process takes six weeks, the best people are going to walk away. Simple as that.

Keywords don't mean what they used to because anyone can prompt AI to write the "perfect" profile. Companies hiring have to start throwing out keyword filters and actually start talking to people (again). A robot can´t fake adaptability and grit.

If you’re trying to grow a team right now, you don't need a massive pipeline of random names. You need a few curated, human introductions.

And if you’re a candidate? Skip the mass-applying. Find a human, send a personalised note, and focus on your actual, real-world track record.

Hiring managers, what's driving you mad about recruiting right now?

Candidates, what's your biggest frustration? Let it out in the comments.

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Who is the mystery footballer who joins us in our box at Bolton Wanderers Official today?Extra clue: He helped his count...
29/08/2026

Who is the mystery footballer who joins us in our box at Bolton Wanderers Official today?

Extra clue: He helped his country pull off one of football’s greatest-ever shocks in the summer of 2004.

Graduate job vacancies have fallen by almost 50% in just one year.Adzuna listed 8,383 graduate roles in July, compared w...
27/08/2026

Graduate job vacancies have fallen by almost 50% in just one year.

Adzuna listed 8,383 graduate roles in July, compared with 15,397 a year earlier. AI will get most of the blame, because businesses can now automate many of the basic tasks traditionally handed to junior employees.

Employer National Insurance, minimum-wage increases and general uncertainty have also made taking a chance on someone inexperienced more expensive.

The data needs some caution, because companies may simply be dropping the word “graduate” while still hiring graduates into ordinary roles. But try explaining that to a young person who has submitted 200 applications and received three automated rejection emails.

We keep telling young people they need experience, then remove the jobs where they are supposed to gain it. That may improve this year’s spreadsheet, but it creates a serious skills problem for the next decade.

Every experienced employee businesses are fighting over today was once a beginner who needed somebody to give them a chance. The answer is to build AI into graduate roles so young people learn faster and contribute sooner, rather than replacing them before their careers begin.

Stop planting trees, and eventually everybody complains there is no forest.

Picture Source via Pexels: Olia Danilevich

26/08/2026

Erzgebirge Aue gewinnt einen Co-Sponsor aus Bolton. Fachkräftevermittlung und Vereinsfinanzierung werden dabei miteinander verbunden.

25/08/2026

Formula 1 tracks usually make their big money when race weekend arrives, but COTA in Austin is trying to turn one weekend of attention into a year-round business.

Carlyle is helping fund the next phase, which includes COTALAND, a $105 million theme park, a water park and plans for a huge hotel and conference resort.

The circuit already attracts more than 400,000 people over a Grand Prix weekend, so COTA has something most leisure businesses would kill for: a giant audience already travelling to the same place.

Instead of letting those fans eat, sleep and spend elsewhere, the owners are building more reasons for them to stay on site.

A family might arrive for Formula 1, spend another day at the theme park, stay in the hotel, eat there and come back months later even when no race is happening.

That changes the economics because the racetrack becomes the magnet while hotels, food, entertainment and events can generate revenue far more often.

We are seeing the same idea elsewhere in sport, from football stadium districts to padel clubs and golf resorts, where the sport brings people in, and everything around it keeps the cash moving.

For investors, the really valuable asset may therefore be the flow of people rather than the sporting venue itself.

If COTA proves it can turn occasional race fans into repeat leisure customers, other clubs and venues will start asking how much unused land, unused days and unused customer attention they are sitting on.

As we advance, companies might have to stop asking how to sell more tickets and start asking what else 50,000 people would happily buy once they have already decided to come.

UK vacancies have fallen to 707,000, their lowest level in more than five years, with 2.5 unemployed people now competin...
24/08/2026

UK vacancies have fallen to 707,000, their lowest level in more than five years, with 2.5 unemployed people now competing for every opening.

On paper, that sounds like employers should have candidates queuing around the block and recruiters might as well put the kettle on.

In practice, a bigger pile of applications does not magically create more satellite engineers, experienced accountants, fire-safety specialists or senior consultants in the right location and salary bracket.

Candidates are applying more widely because they are nervous, while employers are responding by adding more filters, more interview stages and occasionally a job description that appears to require three different human beings.

That leaves good candidates buried inside the CV avalanche and genuinely difficult vacancies still sitting open.

We advise our clients to shorten their process, distinguish the genuine must-haves from the wish list and move quickly when the right person appears. A slower market does not make scarce skills any less scarce.

Britain may have fewer vacancies and more available people, yet still suffer a talent shortage because unemployed and employable for your particular role are not remotely the same thing.

Below in the comments, we´ll add some tips for employers and candidates.

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We´re looking forward to a bit of match day sponsoring against Lincoln City next weekend.Good to catch up with some fami...
21/08/2026

We´re looking forward to a bit of match day sponsoring against Lincoln City next weekend.

Good to catch up with some familiar faces in and around the Toughsheet Stadium.

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