Thursday, 09 February 2012

Recruiter
1-Oct-2008

  • Recruiter retirement

    Mon, 13 Oct 2008

    Tony Rogers steps down at Servoca

  • Age discrimination

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    Heyday legal challenge fight goes on

  • Agency directive

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Agency Workers Directive has been agreed by European Parliament’s employment committee

  • Agency workers

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    European Parliament Employment Committee expected to pass Agency Workers Directive today

  • Automotive recruitment

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Automotive recruitment: Recruitment suffers as automotive manufacturers bring in three-day week

  • Bank holiday

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    Eight in 10 workers call for new bank holiday in October

  • Banking jobs

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Financial recruitment: Over 120,000 banking jobs cut worldwide since last summer

  • Banking jobs

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Financial recruitment: Crisis in markets could lead to further bank job cuts

  • Batten down the hatches chaps!

    1-Oct-2008

    Maybe we should have retitled this page ‘Doom and gloom corner’. According to specialist HR consultancy A&DC, the most popular interview question nowadays reveals how the credit crunch affects organisations even at recruitment and talent management levels

  • Call centres

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Call centres prioritise recruitment and retention

  • Can you merge teams successfully?

    1-Oct-2008

    When recruitment companies come together through acquisition, the key to successful merger is often speed and communication

  • Chess brings One and All to the table to find talent

    1-Oct-2008

    Recruiter and HR consultancy Chess Executive is leading a hospitality industry initiative to bring previously ignored talent to the table — the board table, that is.Today’s [1 October 2008] launch of the One and All Charitable Foundation is aimed at opening the eyes of hospitality industry leaders and line managers to raw talent under their noses: employees who may not have progressed in their career ...

  • City bonuses

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Traders to continue to receive bonuses, recruiter claims

  • City recruitment

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    Boutique recruiters benefit from City slump

  • Confidence is everything

    1-Oct-2008

    With words like Armageddon and meltdown used commonplace, putting the last week of financial turmoil in perspective is difficult. If banks won’t lend to each other, the rest of our working economy is threatened and, given the global reach of the banking system, much is in jeopardy. Apart from headline-grabbing speculation, last week’s movements were about confidence. This is the real threat. With confidence ...

  • Construction recruitment

    Mon, 6 Oct 2008

    Construction recruitment: Construction recruiter beats downturn by focusing on overseas markets

  • Consultants optimise LF's website

    1-Oct-2008

    Media recruitment consultancy Lipton Fleming has launched a new recruitment website, featuring advanced job searching and a content management system which allows designated consultants to administer everything from Meta information for search engine optimisation to vacancies and client banners. The site has been developed by online recruitment specialists HotLizard.Lipton Fleming’s director and owner, Beverley Fleming, told Recruiter that the strength of the brand ...

  • Coping with the financial fallout

    1-Oct-2008

    The recent turmoil in the world’s financial markets, which has claimed among its victims such former stalwarts of the financial world as HBOS and Lehman Brothers, will have wide ranging and profound consequences, according to specialist financial recruiters. The impact will be no short-term blip followed by business as usual, but will continue to reverberate through the sector for years to come.Gareth ...

  • CV lies

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    One in three workers suffer sleepless nights over CV lies

  • Dealmakers

    1-Oct-2008

    Council’s AbacusThe Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has chosen content management system provider Abacus e-Media’s online recruitment product, Recruit, to handle all aspects of the council’s recruitment activities.Reed’s government dealHR consultancy Reed Consulting has won an HR Recruitment Services framework agreement with government agency OGCbuying.solutions. The framework agreement offers savings ...

  • Diary dates 1st October 2008

    1-Oct-2008

  • Diary of... Chrisy Waller, senior consultant, Skilled & Trades Division, Kinetic

    1-Oct-2008

    Chrisy Waller, senior consultant, Skilled & Trades Division, Kinetic

  • Editor's comment

    1-Oct-2008

    For lazy employers, last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General to stay the course with the compulsory retirement age was certainly cause for celebration. There’s no need to effectively manage employee performance, no cause to hide blatant favouring of younger workers and no reason to not ignore workers of potential recruits who are a few years out from an artificial ‘sell-by’ date.

  • Engineer pay

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Engineering recruitment: North-South pay gap is narrowing

  • Engineering lobby must make UK attractive

    1-Oct-2008

    We welcome the inclusion of some engineering fields onto the Migration Advisory Committee’s new list of ‘shortage professions’, which makes it easier for employers to recruit non-EU workers (Recruiter, 17 September, p7).However, the proposal doesn’t go far enough. In the absence of a home-grown solution, primarily caused by a plateau in the numbers studying technical subjects in the EU, several other fields in engineering have long suffered significant ...

  • Engineering recruitment

    Mon, 6 Oct 2008

    Engineering recruitment: IT, technical and engineering recruiter IntaPeople has won two new engineering contracts

  • Financial recruitment

    Mon, 13 Oct 2008

    Brown’s bail-out to boost banking jobs, recruiter claims

  • Find diverse candidates for clients' senior roles

    1-Oct-2008

    Diversity is important in business today, and giving your clients access to diverse high-flying candidates will set your agency apart form others. So how do you go about finding them?

  • Flexible working

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    Women to dominate workplace by 2033 due to mobile working

  • Fuel-saving driving from Driver Hire

    1-Oct-2008

    Driving recruiter Driver Hire today rolls out a smarter driving techniques course across its franchises and offices.Jeremy Neil, head of business process and compliance at Driver Hire, told Recruiter its HGV and van drivers would be taught fuel-efficient driving from 1 October to curb spiralling fuel costs.Neil hopes 60% of drivers will be trained by Christmas using interactive training packs and a compulsory exam for drivers at the end.The ...

  • Gangmaster licence

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Gangmaster supplying Lithuanians must stop trading

  • Gangmaster licence

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    Kent gangmaster loses licence

  • Graduate jobs

    Mon, 13 Oct 2008

    Most graduates are concerned over job prospects

  • Graduates concerned

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Graduate jobs: Graduates are worried about finding a job in the downturn

  • Green workers

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Increase in green collar workers

  • Gulf salaries

    Mon, 13 Oct 2008

    Private sector Gulf salaries rise by 11.4%

  • Hospitality and Catering

    1-Oct-2008

    Despite the end of the summer season and the economic climate, which has caused a decline in hiring, the sector remains positive for the future.

  • Hospitality recruitment

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Initiative launched to recruit more talented mangement

  • Hot 100

    Fri, 15 Oct 2010

    Hot 100 out on Wednesday

  • Immigration caps

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    REC warns against immigration caps

  • Industry benchmarks

    1-Oct-2008

    Closer monitoring will lead to sustained profitablity

  • IT recruitment

    Mon, 13 Oct 2008

    Fewer IT candidates registering due to redundancy

  • IT workers

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Most IT workers not guilty about using work time for personal tasks

  • Job board

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Job board: fish4 launches new website

  • Job cuts

    Mon, 6 Oct 2008

    Companies consider job cuts due to credit crunch

  • Job market

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Demand for staff declines at record level, says survey

  • Jobs market

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    Purnell preparing Britain for mass unemployment

  • Jobseeker advice

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    LinkedIn offers advice for jobseekers

  • Labour address

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    Labour MP speaks to recruiters

  • Lack of action cause of on-going head teacher crisis

    1-Oct-2008

    Recruiters are concerned at the lack of movement from the government and school governors, three years after warnings were made that radical changes were needed in school leadership to avert a head teacher shortage crisis.John Dunn, a director at Arete, Verb Group’s senior placement arm, told Recruiter that his firm has seen disappointingly little progress in the three years since its chairman Bob Wicks first suggested that schools should source private as well ...

  • Make links abroad says GlobalSCS

    1-Oct-2008

    Recruiters can benefit from creating recruitment partnerships before opening offices overseas, an international recruiter has suggested.As the UK faces a recession, Ian Franklin, managing director at GlobalSCS International, has pursued international markets since the start of the year. The logistics recruiter has worked with international partners in Vietnam, Singapore, China and India, and now conducts 60% of its business abroad. He estimates growth of 22% over the next ...

  • Manpower optimistic for opening of City branch

    1-Oct-2008

    Manpower will open a new branch in Liverpool Street in the City on 20 October, in a clear message that there are still staffing opportunities despite the economic downturn which is crippling the financial sector.In an effort to recruit workers to the new branch, the multi-sector recruiter held two open evenings in September for prospective employees. On the first evening four candidates turned up ...

  • Manufacturing jobs

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Manufacturing, construction and services sector contracts at fastest pace ever

  • Master Chef

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Hospitality and catering: Master Chef placed by local agency

  • Matchtech results

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Matchtech releases preliminary results

  • Mergers & acquisitions

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Recruitment Industry set for more acquisitions

  • Michael Page

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    Michael Page increases profits, but says outlook is challenging

  • Minimum wage

    Mon, 6 Oct 2008

    EFA calls for minimum wage to be extended to 18-year-olds

  • Monster index

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    US online recruitment activity increases for second month in a row

  • Monster index

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Public sector online recruitment activity up for second month

  • Nando's gets agencies to find 'in tune' candidates

    1-Oct-2008

    Restaurant company Nando’s is taking a proactive approach to encouraging recruiters on its preferred supplier list (PSL) to pinpoint workers who can engage with the chain’s key values.Speaking at the final annual Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) conference in Harrogate, Julia Claydon, HR director at Nando’s, told delegates that the restaurant chain wants agencies to put forward ...

  • New media

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    More senior executives using new media

  • Offering hospitality to one and all

    1-Oct-2008

    Chess Executive’s One and All Foundation aims to let the hospitality industry know that talent comes in all shapes, sizes, genders and colours. DeeDee Doke went to find out more/

  • Older workers

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Recruitment policy leads to 20% of Tesco workforce aged over 50

  • Olympic workers

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Adecco and IOC to continue to support Olympians

  • One size does not fit all!

    1-Oct-2008

    There is great irony in the way that supply chain managers (SCMs) — as some managed service providers now prefer to style themselves — work with local authorities to supply their temporary recruitment needs. They like to portray themselves as at the cutting edge of modernity — a service that no forward-thinking local authority can do without. But scratch the surface and a very different picture emerges; one strongly reminiscent of the 1970s ‘one size fits all’ and colour-blind approach ...

  • Online recruitment

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Online recruitment: Monster Worldwide buys remaining stake in ChinaHR

  • Opening time

    1-Oct-2008

    Head office moves for The BuzzPart of the Ochre House group, The Buzz — retail, leisure and hospitality recruiter — has opened a division to specialise in head office appointments. The company, which has traditionally focused on ‘front-line’ roles in these sectors, will now also cover all support and technical disciplines, including HR, marketing, finance, IT, legal, buying and merchandising. Steve Clabby, who will be heading up the new division, said: “The ...

  • Opportunity for agencies to run regional job boards

    1-Oct-2008

  • PA pay

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    London PAs’ pay highest in profession

  • People Moves 1st October 2008

    1-Oct-2008

    Resource process outsourcing (RPO) provider Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) has appointed Jeremy Tipper as its new global client relationship director, responsible for sales and marketing, client relationship development and channel management.

  • Pfj trains consultants to cope

    1-Oct-2008

    Training consultants to cope during the economic downturn will be the key to success, according to sales and media recruiter pfj.Paul Farrer, chairman at pfj, said business is down on the same period last year and the firm has rolled out a six-week positive action plan to combat tougher trading conditions.He told Recruiter: “Things will get tougher; we will have to put more in without a correlation to what we get out. There will be a transition from ...

  • Picking up the pieces

    1-Oct-2008

    Recruiters are taking advantage of the influx of jobseekers hitting the market and expanding their candidate databases.“We’re using it as an opportunity to identify good candidates who, through no fault of their own, have fallen foul of their masters,” Hugh Andrée, founder and chief executive of finance, HR and senior interim appointment recruiter the Stamford Consulting Group, told Recruiter.

  • Plumbing jobs

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    Plumbing is most recession-proof profession

  • Points-based system badly engineered, says ATSCo

    1-Oct-2008

    The government’s new points-based immigration system will hamper employers who are trying to recruit skilled overseas workers into the UK engineering sector, says the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCo).It claims that the new immigration system, which requires workers to pass an English test and have £800 in savings, is not designed for short-term, contract-based work, an arrangement ...

  • PPDG future secure with Aussie sale

    1-Oct-2008

    The acquisition of Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) by Employment Service Holdings, Australia’s largest private sector recruiter, will provide the financial and business expertise needed to expand the firm, according to PPDG’s chief executive.Colin Birchall told Recruiter that the £22.6m sale would give PPDG the edge it needed to take its business — getting the unemployed into work ...

  • REC, the movie?!

    1-Oct-2008

    We were intrigued to find out what changes Kevin Green has been instigating at REC HQ since his arrival, so we were delighted to discover that it seems he’s been busy employing his film-making prowess to aid the organisation.And reviews seem to be good so far. Said one reviewer: “Be in no doubt that the mix of psychological creepiness and outright horror is very good, making the most of the claustrophobic ...

  • Recruiter delegation

    Mon, 13 Oct 2008

    ATSCo trade delegation begins

  • Recruiter finances

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Get control of your finances, warns recruitment research

  • Recruiter launch

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    New legal recruiter Blusource launched

  • Recruiter relationships

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    Recruiters warned it’s “too late” to begin building client relationships

  • Recruiter results

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    Eurostaff releases annual results

  • Recruiters scramble to mop up Lehman talent

    1-Oct-2008

    Recruiters are scrambling to net the best talent following the collapse of investment bank behemoth Lehman Brothers, which released 4,500 people on to the jobs market.Agencies have been competing with in-house recruiters and outplacement firms to benefit from the short-term deluge of talent, setting up shop in Canary Wharf and cherry-picking candidates on the day of the bank’s closure on 15 September.

  • Recruitment costs

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    REC urges HMRC to review increased tax burden on temporary jobs

  • Red tape

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Businesses are spending longer dealing with government red tape

  • Retail recruitment

    Wed, 8 Oct 2008

    Retail recruitment: Boom in budget stores is bonus for recruiters

  • Retirement age

    Fri, 3 Oct 2008

    Employers Forum on Age welcomes Cabinet Office’s plans to remove the mandatory retirement age at Whitehall

  • Rising from the ashes

    1-Oct-2008

  • Russian jobs

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Russian labour market benefits from global economic crisis, recruiter claims

  • Screening regulations 'unworkable'

    1-Oct-2008

    Medical recruiters say mandatory health screening requirements, which from today [1 October] apply to all agency workers supplied under NHS PASA (Purchasing and Supply Agency) framework agreements, are “unworkable and unfair”.One recruiter, who wished to remain anonymous, told Recruiter that problems over weeks of delays in MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) testing were “stopping us from ...

  • Shares drop

    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    International recruitment: Japanese recruiter suffers sales slump

  • Sick leave

    Mon, 6 Oct 2008

    Worried employees work on despite illness

  • Soundbites 1st October 2008

    1-Oct-2008

    Stewart London Managing director, Athona Healthcare & Athona Education

  • SSQ tackles diversity in law

    1-Oct-2008

    Shilton Sharpe Quarry is joining forces with diversity consultant Linbert Spencer to extend the legal recruiter’s reach into more diversified pools of talent.“We are in the very early stages but we are working to come up with initiatives,” SSQ director Gavin Sharpe told a London audience of HR professionals working in law firms on 24 September. “Why diversity? Diversity is relevant to both the ‘war ...

  • Staffing firms go for buy-back

    1-Oct-2008

    Colin CottellWith market share prices in the sector showing no sign of bucking the generally depressing trend, recruiters have continued their programmes of buying back their own shares. Hays, Michael Page and Robert Walters have all being been purchasing their own shares in earnest as stock market valuations have plummeted. Robert Walters began its programme around two years ago. In recent weeks, SThree has launched into a spate of buying activity.

  • Supply teachers

    Mon, 6 Oct 2008

    Most supply teachers prefer academies and CTCs

  • The dynamic duo

    1-Oct-2008

    It seems Keith Potts of Jobsite has gone all luvvy on us. You hire one famous bloke to act on your prime time TV campaign ads, and the next thing is you’re hanging around with him on set, having drinks with him in his Winnebago and becoming best buddies! Either that or Max Beesley’s TV work is drying up and he’s hoping Keith will be able to point him in the right direction on Jobsite’s board…

  • The redundancy reaper

    1-Oct-2008

    It seems there’s always someone around to profit from other people’s misery in these fiscally grim times. A new company has sprung up with the loveable name ‘Redundancy Assist’, and aims “to work closely with directors to provide guidance and practical expertise during what is a very challenging business transition”. Its objectives continue: “We provide on-site support to make sure that the headcount reduction process is planned and carried out efficiently, so that departing employees ...

  • Third sector profits from career moves

    1-Oct-2008

    Candidates from financial and professional services are targeting the third sector seeking a career change, according to recruiters.Stephen Perrett, managing director of third sector recruiter Execucare, told Recruiter he had seen a 200-300% increase in applications from these candidates.Deborah Hockham, director of third sector recruiter forum3, told Recruiter applications were up 30% on last year. “With more people becoming disillusioned with ...

  • Times may be tough for us smaller agencies

    1-Oct-2008

    I have just read your article (Recruiter, 17 September, Storm batters the minnows, p14) with interest and note how very true it is what you say.

  • Travel recruitment

    Thu, 2 Oct 2008

    Not building third runway could mean jobs are displaced to other European hubs, recruiter claims

  • Travel recruitment

    Fri, 10 Oct 2008

    Travel recruitment: Major travel operators to continue to hire, travel recruiter predicts

  • Travel recruitment

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    XL collapse boosts high-street jobs in short term, recruiter claims

  • Tribunal awards

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    One in 10 winners of tribunal awards never see a penny

  • UK jobs

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    Unemployment expected to rise by 350,000

  • UK Kelly Services 'breaks mould' with acquisition

    1-Oct-2008

    Generalist recruiter Kelly Services has acquired niche accountancy recruiter Toner Graham, breaking from 20 years of organic growth in the UK.“We’re trying to grow into the niche market — everybody’s trying to. Most [generalist recruiters] want to move into high-margin business,” Chris Moore, managing director UK and Ireland of Kelly Services, told Recruiter. The UK and Ireland operation ...

  • US virtual recruitment fairs service heads for UK

    1-Oct-2008

    US-based eJobFairs will formally launch in the UK next year.Complete Career Network, of which eJobFairs is a division, said its services are already available to UK agencies and employers but Jason Vrane, vice president of client services, told Recruiter there will be an official launch in 2009 of both its on-demand e-fairs and Instant Interview product. The latter allows employers to set ...

  • Valuable lessons of experience

    1-Oct-2008

    The charity Heyday’s legal challenge on the right to work past the age of 65 has reignited the debate among recruiters about the worth of age discrimination legislation in the UK.Employment lawyers are predicting it looks likely that the European Court of Justice will follow the Advocate General’s recommendation to throw out the challenge that Britain’s default retirement legislation, giving firms ...

  • Web Chat 1st October 2008

    1-Oct-2008

    Get LinkedIn with its positivesRecruitment directors shouldn’t be concerned about the ‘three degrees of separation restriction’ set up by LinkedIn (Recruiter, p6, 6 August). The key to making LinkedIn work more effectively is a deep understanding of how to use it — including how to use it for free — which comes from the ‘grunt-work’ of personal experience or from training by an expert. Once that investment has been made, LinkedIn can become a money-making ...

  • WHO'S FIRING

    1-Oct-2008

    l Computer giant HP (Hewlett Packard) plans to cut 24,600 jobs, about 7.5% of its workforce, over three years, following its $13.9bn (£7.7bn) acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, the technology services company.

  • WHO'S HIRING

    1-Oct-2008

    l Newcastle Building Society has added 200 extra staff since last September, taking its numbers to 1,300, and will add a further 200 by the end of the year.

  • Working styles

    Tue, 7 Oct 2008

    Contractors urged to adapt working styles

  • Work-life balance

    Tue, 14 Oct 2008

    Work-life balance improves for four in 10 executives