Five minutes with: Lindsey Howsam, Operations Director at Staysure

With Christmas around the corner, Lindsey Howsam, Operations Director at Staysure, reveals how to overcome the inevitable challenges of an extensive recruitment operation. 

What are the people challenges that arise during an expansion or mass, extensive recruitment operation? How can these be overcome?  

One of the key challenges we face is attracting good quality candidates. We’re in an extremely competitive marketplace with an ever-reducing talent pool as unemployment rates remain low.  

We employ several strategies to try and attract the best candidates - we’ve been awarded ‘One to Watch’ in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies, which helps us to demonstrate our commitment to ensuring development opportunities and building solid career paths. We’ve also been listed as one of the ‘1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ by the London Stock Exchange, as well as winning numerous insurance industry awards, which helps to showcase our company as being experts in what we do. We also constantly review the benefits we offer, which helps us to maintain a positive company culture and working environment for our staff.