Thursday, 09 February 2012

Recruiter
12 May 2010

  • Accentuate the strategy

    12 May 2010

    Stop recruiting for the role, start recruiting for the business

  • Adrian Thomas

    12 May 2010

    Colin Cottell interviews Network Rail’s head of resourcing

  • Change - to avoid becoming extinct

    12 May 2010

    Employers are looking for more value-added, customer-driven service from recruiters. Are they getting it?

  • China: growth of the next superpower

    12 May 2010

    Stephen Regan Senior lecturer in management economics, Cranfield School of Management The transfer of superpower status to China will start to reveal how the next phase of the global labour market will unfold

  • City Comment

    12 May 2010

    The last fortnight started on a positive note. Personally, the Recruiter Awards for Excellence (supported by Innovate CV) have felt a little subdued over the past couple of years, which is understandable as most attendees were struggling with declining net fees and shrinking headcount.

  • Collis heads Bupa's global HR function

    12 May 2010

    International healthcare provider Bupa has appointed Denise Collis as its new group HR director.

  • Comment

    12 May 2010

    You can tell it’s spring - not by the cold, grey weather, but by the re-emergence of recruitment’s serial entrepreneurs.

  • Construction invests in junior talent for future

    12 May 2010

    Cost management and project management companies working in the construction industry have learned the lesson of previous recessions by continuing to invest in talent at junior levels.

  • Defining talent critical to resourcing success

    12 May 2010

    Defining exactly what talent is and who possesses it is an essential pre-requisite for resourcing organisations with the staff they need, recruiters have heard.

  • Degree dumbing down?

    12 May 2010

    More than half (58%) of graduates think employers should scrap their minimum requirements of a 2:1 degree, according to a survey by graduate recruitment specialist Milkround.com.

  • Don't 'tick off' the interview during the recruitment cycle

    12 May 2010

    With reference to Alex Brock’s Bloggers with Bite (Recruiter, 28 April), what a cracking article.

  • Driving to recruitment distraction

    12 May 2010

    Recruiter had an interesting offer recently: would we consider investigating the importance of choosing company vehicles that match the personality of employees?

  • Event offers in-house recruiters smart resourcing

    12 May 2010

    Recruiter will launch its first annual conference and networking event for in-house recruiters in September.

  • Goodbye to golden hellos

    12 May 2010

    Recruiters at corporate dental group Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) are working to improve their influencing skills to cut the costs of ’golden hellos’ paid to successful candidates.

  • HR must act now

    12 May 2010

    HR has possibly the greatest opportunity it has ever had to make a major impact on organisations.

  • I-GRasp steps forward

    12 May 2010

    StepStone Solutions has brought out a new version of its i-GRasp e-recruitment system and says it has responded to customers’ demands for features that will increase productivity and reduce operating and IT costs in the emergence from recession.

  • Innovative centre for candidates to self-improve

    12 May 2010

    Innovate CV, the company behind the global interactive CV platform of the same name, is continuing its drive to make it easier for recruiters to verify a candidate’s suitability for a role with the official launch of its Career & Training Centre.

  • It pays to use social media to find an expert

    12 May 2010

    A survey into buyer behaviour on social networking sites has revealed that decision makers in industry are favourably disposed toward using such methods to both locate and be contacted by experts whose services they would be willing to pay for.

  • Kenexa puts talent on the record and on the move

    12 May 2010

    In what it claims is a first, global business and HR applications provider Kenexa is introducing a unified talent management platform, which includes functionality for the mobile environment.

  • Leading business out of recession

    12 May 2010

    Leaders often set the tone for their business, which can engender trust throughout the whole company. Such confidence seems to be on the rise

  • Michael Page pay back

    12 May 2010

    Multi-sector recruiter Michael Page International is to return £12m to the taxman by the end of the month, following an agreement on overpaid VAT.

  • Placing trust in charity

    12 May 2010

    Not-for-profit recruiter People Unlimited is working with financial services provider Legal & General to place 10 senior management leaders in charity trusteeships.

  • Post interview, it's good to talk

    12 May 2010

    Due to the state of the economy, demand from jobseekers for feedback on their job search and how they can improve for next time has increased. Colin Cottell investigates the pros and cons of feedback

  • Preventing the contact tug-of-war

    12 May 2010

    The thorny question of which contacts belong to an individual and which belong to the employer rears its head more and more, especially with the rise in the use in social media sites. DeeDee Doke investigates

  • Recruiters must talk the language of the boards

    12 May 2010

    Recruiters need to talk the language of business if they are to maximise their credibility and influence, according the head of resourcing at Network Rail.

  • Recruiting in a heartbeat

    12 May 2010

    In a charity, cost-effective recruiting means more money for the cause. eploy worked with the British Heart Foundation to make this happen

  • Recruitment is not a sales job - at last, someone who speaks sense!

    12 May 2010

    I am writing regarding ’The importance of interviewing - it’s not a tick box exercise!’ (Recruiter, Bloggers with bite, 28 April). At last a blogger with real bite who also makes sense.

  • Renewables

    12 May 2010

    The sector is crying out for skilled workers but the danger is that the UK will struggle to fill the demand with home-grown talent

  • RMG's good China year

    12 May 2010

    International multi-sector recruiter Robert Michael Group (RMG) has reported a doubling of new job orders in its China operations.

  • Soundbites

    12 May 2010

    What is your recipe for a successful business relationship?

  • Survival of the fittest in rec-to-rec sector

    12 May 2010

    Regarding your article on Recruitment-to-recruitment (Recruiter, Sector Analysis, 28 April), what has occurred is an economic “survival of the fittest”.

  • Talent dilemmas at heart of clients' business problems

    12 May 2010

    Talent issues are moving to the front and centre of business agendas as organisations recognise that shortfalls in leadership performance, desired employee behaviours and depth of corporate experience are affecting their capacity to move forward.

  • The buyer's guide to...Telephony systems

    12 May 2010

  • Twenty Recruitment's Marsden says banking talent demand on up

    12 May 2010

    The banking industry’s demand for talent in infrastructure areas such as finance and IT is approaching the dizzy heights of 2006, according to the founder of multi-sector Twenty Recruitment Group.

  • Web Comment

    12 May 2010

    The following web comments are all in response to ’The IT Job Board: Social networking fails jobseekers’ (9 April)

  • Web Comment

    12 May 2010

    Dan HawesIn response to ’Graduates urge employers to scrap 2:1 minimum requirement’ (28 April) I think some employers will have good reason to choose a 2:1 degree limit however there will be others that can be lazy and have no solid grounding for making it a requirement and I think this is where the problem lies.