Recruiter
02-September 2009
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Adapt to new networking direction or ‘be fried’
02-September 2009
Everyone involved in recruitment must respond to the phenomenon of social networking or face a bleak future, according to Unilever’s globalresourcing director.
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Banking, insurance and finance
02-September 2009
While this is still a candidate-rich sector, resourcing professionals are putting greater demands on recruiters’ margins and services
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Call for latest Hot 100 recruiters
02-September 2009
Did your recruitment agency beat the recession and maximise your staff’s productivity?
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Career fans
02-September 2009
The choice of football team can greatly enhance an employee’s career prospects, according to the executive careers website TheLadders.co.uk. Research found that 54% of management employees believe supporting a common team with your peers and boss can help with career prospects, while 47% feel sharing a favourite team can open doors within a company. The survey also showed that 84% think football is a great conversation starter and way of getting noticed in the workplace. By supporting ...
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Cautious response to FSA
02-September 2009
City recruiters are wary of the Financial Services Authority’s proposed new rules on bankers’ pay and bonuses that would link their pay more closely with the banks’ longterm profitability, and which are planned for implementation in January 2010.
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City comment
02-September 2009
Michael Vassallo, equities analyst, Brewin Dolphin Investment BankingTalk of a potential correction has done little to fetter the stock markets with this past two weeks showing more solid gains.
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City Comment
02-September 2009
Michael Vassallo, equities analyst, Brewin Dolphin Investment Banking
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Cloud builds over UK recruiting world
02-September 2009
The iFind talent management database tool from US-based Jobscience, has launched in the UK as part of a joint marketing campaign with Salesforce.com.
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Consultants? Pah!
02-September 2009
In-House Hannah on - Which adds more value, a recruiter or my BlackBerry?
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Decision engine shows early recruiting promise
02-September 2009
Microsoft’s Bing.com: worth searching out for recruiters
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Editor's Comment
02-September 2009
The last throes of the ‘silly season’ of the UK’s promised barbecue summer are with us, and regular service is resuming. But at Recruiter, it’s not quite business as usual. We’ve smartened up our look with a livelier and more inviting design.
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Equity participation key to growth for specialist recruiter Investigo
02-September 2009
Investigo’s equity participation scheme is one of the main reasons for the company’s recession-busting growth, according to one of its directors.
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Exiting executives
02-September 2009
The chief executives of Hexagon Human Capital and Hudson/Europe exited their respective companies during August. At Hexagon, departing CEO Jonathan Wright (top left) stepped down as the group of companies announced it would refocus strategy on day-to-day operational management and away from the ‘buy and build’ growth model it had adopted in better times. The departure of Hudson/Europe CEO Christine Raynaud (top right) was announced on 26 August. Hudson Highland chairman and CEO Jon ...
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Going public on recruiting pressures
02-September 2009
Cost cutting in the public sector will be with us for a good few years to come, but what will this mean for recruitment in the sector, asks Colin Cottell
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Huxham joins Elite Faculty
02-September 2009
Further to the announcement of Elite Faculty’s boardroom ‘dream team’ (Recruiter, 12 August, p10), another name has been added to its nonexecutive director (NED) service.
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Interactions online: the next intelligent steps
02-September 2009
Simply searching through social networking sites and groups is the easy part. But as DeeDee Doke discovered, users are finding the next steps of true knowledge gathering are not as easily navigated
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International News: Singapore
02-September 2009
With around 139,000 people employed in infocomms in Singapore, there is constant demand across the operator, vendor, systems integrators and consultancy areas.
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Leave the NFP sector to the experts
02-September 2009
The downturn has led to an increase in agencies jumping on the charity job bandwagon
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Letters: Businesses down under still hiring candidates on 457 visas
02-September 2009
In response to your article ‘British recruiters return from Oz’ (recruiter.co.uk, 17 July), although it is true some recruiters who were sponsored on 457 visas may have returned home over the past six months, due to not being able to find new roles, the businesses that have the eligibility to sponsor people are still continuing to do this for the candidates with the right skill set.
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Letters: Dispensations — not the silver bullet
02-September 2009
In response to your article ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ (recruiter.co.uk, Expert Advice, 19 August), a dispensation is not the silver bullet as made out in this article.
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Letters: Recruitment experience not necessary for NEDs
02-September 2009
I read with interest the articles you published about non-executive directors in your 22 July issue (News, p10 and Trends, p20).
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Making profit secondary to survival
02-September 2009
Strategic decisions are vital in trying to reduce losses, manage debt and bring businesses back to profitability
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McDonald’s Fairhurst is chair of People 1st
02-September 2009
David Fairhurst, senior vice president, chief people officer at McDonald’s, has been appointed chairman of People 1st, the sector skills council for the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industry
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Paul Maxin
02-September 2009
Colin Cottell interviews Unilever’s global resourcing director
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Professional sites net members in recession
02-September 2009
Professional networking sites are spinning the global downturn into membership gold as jobseekers and recruiters alike increasingly turn to them to find work, clients and candidates.
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Profits plunge
02-September 2009
International recruiter Michael Page posted a fall in its UK profits for its half-year results. Revenue fell by 27% to £364.7m from £500m, while gross profits slumped to £178.8m, down from £292.7m. Operating profit was £32.2m, from £84.9m in 2008. Steve Ingham (above), chief executive of Michael Page, said: “While market conditions generally continued to weaken during the first half, the rate of decline in the UK, our largest country, and the Asia Pacific region has slowed, and gross ...
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Recession not fully to blame for agencies’ failures
02-September 2009
A new report claims that “a band of serial loss makers” in the recruitment agency industry are blaming current market conditions for theirlosses when they are actually making losses for the second and even third year running.
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Recruiter sentencing
02-September 2009
A recruiter who racked up £750,000 in debt and kept incomplete financial records has been sentenced to nine months in prison at Reading Crown Court. Amir Hussain, 39, of Northern Road, Slough, the sole director of Crownwell, was convicted for misconduct in the course of the company being wound up in September 2004. Despite repeated requests from the liquidator, Hussain failed to hand over accounting records. Hussain was sentenced to nine months and six months immediate custody to run ...
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Recruiter trial
02-September 2009
The trial of a man accused of murdering the head of a recruitment agency in New Inn, Pontypool, and attempting to kill three other agency employees is expected to last three weeks. Russell Carter denies murdering Kingsley Monk and the attempted murder of Monk’s Driverline 247 colleagues last October. The trial is being held at Newport Crown Court.
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Recruiters respond to accountants' optimism
02-September 2009
Recruiters have given a mixed response to the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Business Confidence Monitor (BCM), which recorded an increase in optimism from -28.2 to +4.8, the first positive reading in two years. Although the figures point to an improving economy, some recruiters felt that the UK was not out of the woods. Caution was the theme running through the comments of many recruiters in England and Wales. However, Scottish recruiters were taking ...
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Rise in CV fraud
02-September 2009
As more vacancies arise as the UK economy emerges from recession, employers have been urged to be vigilant around verifying CVs due to an increase in falsified job applications from increasingly desperate candidates, by Peter Hurst, chief executive of fraud prevention service CIFAS.
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Soundbites
02-September 2009
What recruitment issue is keeping you awake at night?
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Tesco's Scottish boost
02-September 2009
Tesco’s announcement that it is to create 800 new jobs in Glasgow is a welcome boost to recruitment in the city and in Scotland. The supermarket chain plans to open a customer service centre for its Tesco Personal Finance business in central Glasgow. Scottish recruiters welcomed the news, particularly in light of the upheavals in Scotland’s banking world with RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) and HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland).
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The Challenge: A relationship of Trust
02-September 2009
When The Prince’s Trust approached Digby Morgan to fill management positions in its HR team, the charity had never engaged an agency before
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The industry must change!
02-September 2009
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Think like a soldier online
02-September 2009
The British Army has launched the final part of its online Start Thinking Soldier Challenge in which individuals can test their physical aptitude and mental fitness.
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Travel schemes
02-September 2009
Deloitte tax partner Brian White has called on HM Revenue & Customs to scrutinise travel and subsistence schemes for temporary workers and “stamp out those that are not operating within the law”. His comments follow recent guidance issued by HMRC. “The onus should be on HMRC to undertake a detailed review of all schemes and stamp out those that are not operating within the law. This was its own conclusion when it reviewed the law in this area in 2008 and concluded that no changes ...
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Unlocking the key to support
02-September 2009
Saving time and money is one of the main reasons for engaging a back office support provider. Graham Simons looks at the benefits that can be achieved by implementing such solutions
