Recruiter
03 March 2010
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Calibre One's buy gives it the Leading Edge
03 March 2010
International interim and executive search firm Calibre One’s recent acquisition of Leading Edge gives it access to the fast growing US clean technology market and puts it on track to double in size, according to Calibre One’s founder.
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The buyer's guide to...Skills testing
03 March 2010
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A warm welcome or full of empty promises?
03 March 2010
Firms are wising up to the way they treat their new arrivals, particularly when they discover how much is lost in attrition costs. Sue Weekes reports
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Ad comes a cropper
03 March 2010
Jobcentre officials have refused to place an ’ageist’ job advert for a junior stylist.
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Cancer appeal
03 March 2010
A recruiter is asking fellow recruiters for support to provide his wife with life-saving treatment for a rare form of bone cancer.
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ChoiceAnalyst software makes hiring decisions easier on brain
03 March 2010
New software emerging from the US is helping recruiters and resourcing professionals choose who they should hire, promote or even lay off.
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City Comment
03 March 2010
Ian Jermin, head of research at Merchant John East Securities
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Colaianni adds her HR magic to Merlin
03 March 2010
Visitor attraction operator Merlin Entertainments has appointed Tea Colaianni as group human resources director.
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Comment
03 March 2010
The 1990s supermodel Linda Evangelista was once quoted as saying that she didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. She’s got lots of company in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire where Britons who could work choose not to, as a BBC documentary has revealed.
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Constructive criticism which iswell worth acting on
03 March 2010
In response to your article ’Employers dubious on recruiters’ value’ (recruiter.co.uk, 19 February), this kind of intelligence may be unpalatable, but is a priceless bit of constructive criticism and worth more than any number of pats on the back.
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Disaster for recruiters if migrants up and left
03 March 2010
Most recruitment agencies would go out of business if migrant workers left, according to the manager of a recruitment agency in a town featured in a television programme last week.
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Don't let bad apples spoil the recruitment barrel
03 March 2010
I agree whole-heartedly with Lord Young’s comments in your article ’Driving recruiters hit with 10-year ban following EAS investigation’ (recruiter.co.uk, 18 February). Our industry is worth up to £28bn in the UK and, largely, is run by professional outfits who work closely with their clients as true business partners helping to give them a competitive by delivering a skilled flexibile workforce. But it only takes one ’bad apple’ to ruin our reputation.
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End the 'first past the post'
03 March 2010
Ray Ellis’s Soapbox in Recruiter, 17 February, championed relationshipbuilding rather than bombarding clients with indiscriminate CVs
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Graduates up as law firm simplifies recruitment
03 March 2010
Simplifying the recruitment process has helped law firm Browne Jacobson improve the quality and quantity of its graduate intake, according to the firm’s HR manager.
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HR
03 March 2010
The private sector may be on the look out for HR expertise but it is still unclear how budget cuts will affect recruitment in the public sector
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Innovate CV is headline sponsor of Awards
03 March 2010
Innovate CV, the newly-launched global interactive CV platform, will support Recruiter’sAwards for Excellence 2010 as headline sponsor.
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International news - Australia
03 March 2010
The Australian economy and recruitment market has shown exceptional signs of recovery over the last four months and in turn for JPA, as a rec-to-rec with an office in Sydney the demand from our clients within Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth is far outstripping the number of domestic-based recruiters available.
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Making private talent more public
03 March 2010
As spending cuts take effect, public sector leaders will still have to deliver first class services in an increasingly challenging socio-economic environment. And the signs are clear that public services will need to develop and recruit confident, talented and committed leaders over the next few years.
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Mary Canavan
03 March 2010
Colin Cottell speaks to the HR director of The British Library
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Misys picks Hays RM
03 March 2010
Hays Resource Management (Hays RM), Hays’ recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) division, has been chosen by international application and services provider Misys to provide a three-year onsite RPO solution for North and South Asia.
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Networking new joiners
03 March 2010
Recruitment advertising and communications agency TMP Worldwide is enhancing its onboarding service to clients by enabling new joiners to social network with potential colleagues before they start.
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New recruitment model needed to prevent 'corporate prisoners'
03 March 2010
Staffing businesses are ’playing safe’ in the type of candidates they are putting forward to clients because of a fear of missing out on sales, recruiters have heard.
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Niche brings value
03 March 2010
In response to your article ’RBS’s Bor plans to cut agency use in drive to direct recruiting’ (Recruiter, 17 February), I do agree that the days of volume recruitment are challenged and that suppliers need to continue to evolve and develop their services to justify the fees they charge and that having a small number of niche suppliers is key.
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Note new 'fit' legislation
03 March 2010
Recruiters of both temporary and permanent workers will need to prepare for ’fit note’ legislation, according to John Hayes, partner at the London employment department of law firm Irwin Mitchell.
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Olympic accounting
03 March 2010
Accountants with strong commercial skills are in short supply on London’s Olympics project, according to Jean Tomlin, director of HR, London 2012.
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Online job ads hit badly by recession
03 March 2010
Despite online job advertisements falling off by a third last year compared with 2008, the picture for 2010 looks rather more optimistic
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Pay them lean to keep them keen says Hartie
03 March 2010
A construction recruiter who has taken on five apprentices from the dole queue on a salary of £7,000 to £8,000 a year says it keeps them hungry and motivated.
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Portrayed in the worst possible light
03 March 2010
Agencies involved in the so-called construction cartel have not been given a fair trial from the OFT or the press
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Prepare for video interviewing, says Canavan
03 March 2010
The traditional face-to-face interview could disappear in the near future, according to the HR director at The British Library.
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Soundbites
03 March 2010
How do you mitigate the effects of stress in your job and in your teams?
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South Atlantic mission
03 March 2010
Upfront & Personnel came to the Falkland Island Company’s rescue to find a sales advisor willing to travel 8,000 miles from the UK
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Stakeholder Comment
03 March 2010
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Tax ruling
03 March 2010
Thousands of contractors using offshore schemes to cut tax are facing a clampdown after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) won a High Court ruling to allow it recover tax retrospectively, warns Giant Group, the contractor services provider.
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Think outside the CV
03 March 2010
Employing ex-agency recruiters can bring in-house benefits
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Time to give green light to licensing?
03 March 2010
Rogue gangmasters seem to be more and more in the news, with every new revocation calling the wider recruitment industry into question. Colin Cottell investigates whether it is time for the industry to be licensed
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Tough job for the judges as direct and RPO recruiters join industry’s honours
03 March 2010
The judging is completed, and now Recruiter is proud to announce the shortlist of finalists for the Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2010, supported by Innovate CV
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UK recruits
03 March 2010
The resAlmost half of UK chief executives (42%) are hoping to recruit additional staff this year, according to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). earch, based on interviews with around 70 chief executives of UK firms, shows that 62% had reduced headcount over the last year and 85% predict they will overhaul the way their organisations manage people through change.
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Virtual gas
03 March 2010
British Gas Recruitment starts its new employees on a journey through a virtual village which can be explored online with their own avatar.
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VMS platform adopts channel partner approach
03 March 2010
Managed service providers (MSPs) could become channel partners for a powerful new vendor management system platform that has just made its debut in the UK at the eWorld Purchasing & Supply summit in Birmingham.
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Web Comment
03 March 2010
In response to ’Recruiters urged to protect against umbrella failures’ (9 February)
