{"id":45995,"date":"2014-08-04T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0d54724f94ca3124b399f6029d01ccef"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:04:00","slug":"news-story-small-firms-hiring-more-staff-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45995","title":{"rendered":"News story: Small firms hiring more staff than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A recent <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbi.org.uk\/media-centre\/press-releases\/2014\/08\/small-manufacturers-report-fourth-consecutive-quarter-of-growth\/\">CBI<\/a> survey of small and medium-sized manufacturers reports another strong quarter of orders and output growth in the 3 months to July. Domestic orders and output both rose strongly, for the fourth consecutive quarter, and are expected to grow robustly again in the next 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, 34% of firms said that employment increased, while 9% said that it decreased &#8211; the balance of +24% is the strongest pace of growth since records began in October 1988.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbusiness.gov.uk\/help-with-recruiting-and-hiring-staff\/\">Business is GREAT<\/a> has some excellent advice and case studies of small companies that are growing and hiring more staff to meet demands.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneur Tracey Longmuir gave up a job managing the accounts team for an international print management company to start up Isis Pet Care in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire. Starting a business is hard enough but Tracey had even greater challenges raising a child as a single mum following a relationship break-up.<\/p>\n<p>Here is her story:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0LDxu7gpGbw\">Isis Pet care<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find lots more information and inspiration by looking at our guide &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/small-business-commitment\">\u2018Small Business: GREAT Ambition\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey of small businesses shows that firms are hiring staff faster than at any time since 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46006,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45995\/revisions\/46006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}