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Recruiter
04-Feb-2009

  • ‘Obama boost’ for green recruiters

    04-Feb-2009

    Going Green: Obama is good news for renewables

  • Benchmark guides candidates to snif out top dog job

    04-Feb-2009

    Taking the lead: Benchmark Recruit’s Amy Tingle and Siobhan Hennessey and one of the guide dogs

  • Broadbean’s talent tracking

    04-Feb-2009

    Software launches: CEO Kelly Robinson is on track

  • Cash in on added value

    04-Feb-2009

    Despite many businesses imposing a hiring freeze, enterprising recruiters are finding outplacement is a rich source of income,Christopher Goodfellow discovers

  • DEALMAKERS

    04-Feb-2009

    Darwin’s Aon winInternational financial services and insurance recruiter Darwin Rhodes has won a contract to supply staff to Aon in Dublin. The companywill be responsible for recruiting around 100 senior insurance specialist to Aon’s new Centre of Excellence.AXA chooses CapitaCapita has been selected to become the strategic outsourcing partner of AXA Sun Life. The contract to administer 3.2m life andpension policies ...

  • Diary Of...Tom Coulter Management consultant, Discover Retail

    04-Feb-2009

    Early start this morning. In the office for 7am to kick start the week, pick up some bacon butties on my way in — an added incentive to get the team in early. Spend the first 30 minutes going through competitors’ adverts

  • Don’t quote me on that

    04-Feb-2009

    Recruiter brings you the Quote of the Week from Yahoo!’s newly appointed chief executive, Carol Bartz (rumoured to have been headhunted by Heidrick & Struggles). It is reported that she once said: “If you don’t kill a lot of plants along the way, you don’t know how to garden.” What a comforting thought for all her new employees to dwell upon. However, to inspire positivity, Hertfordshire based Saints Personnel puts some rather more upbeat ...

  • Drop in debtor days preserves cash flow

    04-Feb-2009

    Debtor days dropped dramatically during October and November as recruiters reined in clients to preserve cash flow.According to BDO Stoy Hayward’s Recruitment Industry Benchmarking, the average debtor days over the past two years was 41.5 days.This dropped to 39 days in October and 38 days in November.Gina Fasciani, operations director of sales and marketing at Spring, told Recruiter the company has seen a “marked improvement” towards the end of ...

  • Editor's Comment

    04-Feb-2009

    It’s been a fortnight of extremes. Hundreds and thousands of jobs go out the door at a variety of UK and global businesses, and elsewhereannouncements are made about the potential hiring of outrageous numbers of people.

  • Ellis Fairbank director speaks of his anguish

    04-Feb-2009

  • End poaching in South Africa

    04-Feb-2009

    It is time to stop targeting skilled staff from developing countries and realise the impact it has on those countries

  • ENGINEERING

    04-Feb-2009

    In the past year, demand in the sector has significantly declined in some subsectors, risen in others and fluctuated in some areas.And all the while, skill gaps remain

  • eSift’s new flat-fee model changes face of recruiting

    04-Feb-2009

    Online: Cole and Blackwell

  • Extend opportunity to every willing heart

    04-Feb-2009

    I’m a sucker for a great orator and must admit to finding Barack Obama’s presidential acceptance speech thoroughly energising. Now, I am well known for being apolitical (neutral), which has served me well in the past, but I thought his statement of hope could be the new call to arms for the UK recruitment industry (and especially the public provision, Jobcentre Plus). When he said: “We want to extend opportunity to every willing heart,” I thought the message was profound, ...

  • Food retail offers hope to agencies

    04-Feb-2009

    Expansion: chief executive Justin King plans on 5,000 new jobs

  • Fresh Approach to Omani staffing

    04-Feb-2009

    Muscat: The Omani capital is the UK recruiter’s frist base in the Middle East

  • Good news in recruitment

    04-Feb-2009

  • Green shoots among the challenges

    04-Feb-2009

    The latest survey to hit the industry paints recruiters in a more optimistic mood than would be supposed, given the amount of gloomy news from the media on the economy. Graham Simons looks at highlights from the report and picks out what recruiters can learn from thefindings.

  • HIRERS & FIRERS

    04-Feb-2009

    WHO’S HIRINGSupermarket chain Asda is to create 7,000 new jobs. Asda plans to open nine new stores, while its online division will hire 2,000 new staff.Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has announced that it will create 1,000 jobs as it prepares for the roll-out of its high-definition televisionservice.Restaurant chain McDonald’s is to recruit 4,000 workers and open 20 new restaurants in the UK. WHO’S FIRING

  • HMRC pays out recruiter £50k for ‘procedural error’

    04-Feb-2009

    Begg: campaigned for Fowler

  • How to...design a great bonus/ commission scheme

    04-Feb-2009

    Commission and bonus schemes are very much individual to each agency. However, there are still some common factors that areworth applying to get the most from your consultants.

  • IMA launches Institute for interim managers

    04-Feb-2009

    Atkinson: important initiative

  • International briefs - 4 February

    04-Feb-2009

    WorldwideAround 51m jobs could go worldwide, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). The UN agency says world unemployment rate could jump to 7.1% by the end of 2009, compared with 6% in 2008 and 5.7% in 2007.CanadaThe Canadian government has committed to spending “whatever is necessary” to stimulate the country’s economy due to the globaleconomic downturn, according to the BBC. Canada’s proposed budget ...

  • Matrix defends rate cut for its agencies

    04-Feb-2009

    Young: tremendous response

  • Meridian’s mission is possible

    04-Feb-2009

    Reacting to a hostile market is Mark Mitchell’s mission with Meridian. Christopher Goodfellowreports

  • More to marketing than SEO

    04-Feb-2009

    James Saunders, managing director of 4MAT, is urging recruiters to look beyond search engine optimisation (SEO) when devising theirdigital marketing strategies.To help recruiters use other methods, 4MAT, which develops websites for the recruitment industry, has launched a digital marketingservice that also includes pay per click advertising, email marketing, website usability analysis and digital PR.“People understand the concept of SEO but it’s not ...

  • On a different front

    04-Feb-2009

    It was interesting to see the recent research from Morgan McKinley showing that the number of new job vacancies in financial services fell by 65% in December (‘War not over - nature of conflict has changed’, Recruiter, 21 January).

  • Online quality shows

    04-Feb-2009

    With the influx of jobseekers on the market, job boards are having to deliver quality over quantity, reports Sue Weekes

  • OPENING TIME

    04-Feb-2009

    New branch for People PlusPeople Plus Recruitment has opened its second branch in Cannock. The new office will be managed by Wayne Clayton and Halina Witek joins the branch as consultant. The company has also launched a new transport and logistics division — DrivingForce — operating from their Wolverhampton headquarters.Be Personnel in EnglandScottish recruitment, training and HR consultancy, Be Personnel, has opened its first ...

  • Out but certainly not down!

    04-Feb-2009

    The days of recruiters may be numbered — at least if you’re looking for a job in Dubai. The Times ran a picture of sackedmanager Andrew Blair and his car (no, that’s not him to the right…).

  • Penta pulls in the strong Gard to manage the IT sales team

    04-Feb-2009

    Keith Gard - Ian Baldry - Ted Hobbs - Iain McIlwee - Jane Fretwell - Michael Hall - Anke Weers - Roddy Hammond - Iain Everett - Sarah Fraser - GeoffFlavell-Matts - Craig Hughes - Jane Wilson - Dionne White - Gareth Stanger - Vicki Anderson - Paul Vlahovic - Kate Bleasdale - Tom Brockton - Steve Bacon - Beverley Glenn - Stefan Britton - Matt Demetrio Johe

  • Pruning back is ‘no bad thing’

    04-Feb-2009

    Tough trading conditions are driving change and opportunity in the industry.Russell Clements, chief executive of IT recruiter SThree, told Recruiter the recession is causing a “periodic pruning of the industry’s weaker players — which is no bad thing”.Stuart Packham, director of Michael Page Technology, told Recruiter the recession provided a good time to take market share. “In a boommarket, it’s easy to operate. At the moment cash is ...

  • Putting the Trusts back in agencies

    04-Feb-2009

    Most healthcare recruiters agree that the change in supplying medical staff to NHS Trusts, due to start on 1 April, is long overdue. However, there remains some skepticism as to how beneficial the change will actually be to agencies. Colin Cottell gauges the response

  • Q&A - Is my company fully compliant?

    04-Feb-2009

    Managed service providers should start checking their compliance, as Revenue & Customs is set to get tougher with agencies

  • Randstad helps in labour flexibility

    04-Feb-2009

    Candidates need to be more flexible when job hunting, advises the managing director of Randstad UK Professional Services.Fred van der Tang told Recruiter that with unemployment rising, and more candidates entering the market, “some candidates need to be more flexible in terms of how much they want to travel [to find work]”. They also need to be more flexible when it comes to considering a pay cut, he suggested.Van der Tang said that with headcount reductions ...

  • REC restructures staff

    04-Feb-2009

    Staffing shuffle: Kevin Green aims to improve services

  • REC’s smaller members will lose out in future

    04-Feb-2009

    While I welcome many of Kevin Green’s ideas for the future of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (Recruiter, 14 January), a number of them concern me.The REC is a trade organisation for the recruitment industry. It has frequently found it difficult to meet the differing needs of both its largest and smallest members. By opening the membership to people who work in recruitment in the corporate sector, Kevin is adding another strand of complexity, ...

  • Say it with... not a lot

    04-Feb-2009

  • Soundbites

    04-Feb-2009

    In what ways are you helping your staff adapt to the changing business environment?

  • Spring board: no ‘fat cats’

    04-Feb-2009

    Ever since the then British Gas chief executive, Cedric Brown, was roundly pilloried in the press, after receiving a 75% pay increase to £475,000 a year, the issue of boardroom ‘fat cats’ has never strayed far from the headlines.Few directors want to be seen as having their hands in the trough, particularly when their staff are facing the prospect of pay freezes or worse still, redundancy. Speaking to Recruiter after Spring’s relatively upbeat trading ...

  • TAWD will stop job creation, says MP

    04-Feb-2009

    Djanogly: TAWD won’t help

  • Turnover and employee numbers now starting to fall

    04-Feb-2009

    Recruiters’ revenues have been falling since last summer, which is perhaps unsurprising considering the current economic climate.However, the difficult judgement call now is: how far is turnover likely to drop?According to BDO Stoy Hayward’s review of the latest data outputs from Recruitment Industry Benchmarking (RIB), members are not having to take as much drastic action as some of their listed counterparts. However, recruiters in general have expressed ...