Recruiter
28 April 2010
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Wilson leaves B&C
28 April 2010
Neil Wilson has stepped down as managing director of Badenoch & Clark after 10 years in the role.
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...Especially entrepreneurs
28 April 2010
The use of small companies in the existing manner is critical for small enterprise to continue working rather than be a burden on the state when they are between contracts.
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Ad agency promotion for Shelton-Smith
28 April 2010
Creative advertising agency archibald ingall stretton has promoted Emma Shelton-Smith to operations director.
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An increasingly flexible future
28 April 2010
Service providers, associations and recruiters need to come together to create a versatile working environment
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And the award for beyond the call of duty . . .
28 April 2010
The award for most effort expended to attend this year’s awards goes to Daniel Christian, general manager, business development at outsourced management accounting services provider QX.
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Award winners
28 April 2010
Multiple award winners
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Buying Viagra online? Don't jump to conclusions
28 April 2010
A manager at Transline-Resource, winner of Best Industrial Recruitment Firm at Recruiter Awards for Excellence, has another reason to feel pleased.
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Cavemen and the iPad
28 April 2010
I have just read Roger Philby’s ’Bloggers with Bite’ in 14 April issue of Recruiter and am astonished by the phrase ’technology in recruitment - or lack of it’.
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City Comment
28 April 2010
The Annus Horribilis that was last year for the recruitment industry is over, and Q1 of 2010 heralds a new start. Q1 results from Michael Page, Hays and Manpower have all shown encouraging signs of stability.
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Comment
28 April 2010
With the election a little over a week away, the question on the minds of most of us is, a win by which party will mean the best possible future for me, us, your business or organisation. Manifestos can suggest a direction but they offer no guarantees.
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Commit to staff to build productivity
28 April 2010
Michael Moran Chief executive, Fairplace Career management is an often overlooked strategy for some organisations, but recent research has revealed it can be the most important strategy for an employer of choice
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Contract News
28 April 2010
Group Bel gets ActiveFrench multinational cheese marketer Group Bel has deployed Jobpartners’ ActiveCenter and ActivePlanner products to better monitor the career development of its 1,500 managers across 30 different countries. Group Bel is to also implement talent management solutions Jobpartners’ e-recruitment module ActiveRecruiter to help streamline its existing recruitment and internal mobility processes.
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Council's creative job placements
28 April 2010
A Lincolnshire district council is putting its creativity to work to match job candidates and skills with jobs through the government’s Future Jobs Fund Scheme.
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Curb public sector spend
28 April 2010
In response to ’CIPD: Immediate public sector cuts could threaten recovery’ (recruiter.co.uk, 19 April), surely it’s far better to curb spending and not hike up national insurance?
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Double award wins
28 April 2010
Network Rail, Joslin Rowe and CBSbutler were the worthy recipients of two awards each at the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, sponsored by Innovate CV, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane last night.
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Double awards winners right on track
28 April 2010
Providing candidates and their families with as much information as possible was a key factor in Network Rail double success at last week’s Recruiter Awards for Excellence, sponsored by Innovate CV.
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Google goes for consensus in hiring
28 April 2010
Most successful candidates for jobs at Google will be interviewed at least four times, recruiters at the world’s largest search engine have revealed.
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Housing association wins best diversity accolade
28 April 2010
Removing the phrase “must have so many years’ experience” in job descriptions is just one of the measures that helped housing association Guinness Northern Counties win the Best Diversity Recruitment Strategy at last week’s Recruiter Awards for Excellence.
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Lloyds hiring
28 April 2010
Lloyds Banking Group is planning to hire around 35 staff to service corporate customers with access to debt through capital markets.
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Matthew Jeffery
28 April 2010
DeeDee Doke spoke with EA’s global director of talent brand
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Mayday in good health
28 April 2010
Healthcare recruiter Mayday Healthcare has topped the Sunday Times Profit Track 100.
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Monster move for online recruiting
28 April 2010
Recruiters who participated in trials of Monster’s new semantic search technology, 6Sense, achieved 65% time-savings when searching CV databases compared with using keyword searches. They also reported that the number of qualified candidates they were able to find increased by 150%.
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Morrisons' effective fresh approach filled its roles
28 April 2010
When Wm Morrisons Supermarkets joined forces with creative ad agency Jupiter Advertising to find general managers for its stores nationwide, they not only filled the roles, but the campaign ended up winning the Most Effective Recruitment Campaign award.
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Never a good time to cut
28 April 2010
I have just read ’CIPD: Immediate public sector cuts could threaten recovery’ (recruiter.co.uk, 19 April).
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Recruiter Forum hits Glasgow
28 April 2010
Recruiters working in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the surrounding areas are invited to join Recruiter for a regional forum on 9 June.
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Recruiters turned developers launch new app
28 April 2010
Those iPhone users who don’t have Twitter accounts can make use of the Tweetjobs service via a free app, which also takes advantage of the phone’s location awareness functionality such as GPS or GPRS. It has been developed by Nik Burns, a former recruiter who developed an app to help recruiters manage candidates and clients last year.
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Recruiting, redundancy and redeployment...
28 April 2010
… all part of the job for the winners of the Best Recruitment Team at Recruiter’s Awards. Colin Cottell met Atkins’ director of resourcing, Chris Marsh, to hear more
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Recruitment-to-recruitment
28 April 2010
As business in general starts to pick up, there are signs that recruiters, particularly in niche sectors, are once again in demand
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Revenue rise offers glimmer of hope
28 April 2010
Although the latest Recruitment Industry Benchmarking output shows just a slight increase in turnover, the rise gives cause for optimism
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Russam GMS: treat interims well for success commercially
28 April 2010
Charles Russam, chairman of the winner of the inaugural Best Interim Recruitment Agency, Russam GMS, believed his firm’s candidate care set it apart from its competitors.
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Select and assess more, says Omni
28 April 2010
RPOs should focus more of their efforts on selection and assessment of candidates, according to the managing director of Outstanding Outsourced Recruitment Organisation award winner Omni RMS.
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Sellafield fully embraces Capita's embedded team
28 April 2010
Capita Resourcing won the inaugural award for Best Embedded Recruiting Team at the event, thanks to its onsite team based at nuclear decommissioning plant Sellafield in North-West England.
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Social media use up but ROI proves tough
28 April 2010
While the use of social media in recruitment is increasing, definitively proving return on investment is still not easy, recruiters have heard.
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Soundbites
28 April 2010
“With the major parties issuing their election manifestos, what are you hoping the next government will offer to help the recruitment/resourcing industry?”
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Stakeholder Comment
28 April 2010
Samantha Woodland, senior HR business partner, Kelly Services “Finding recruiters with industry knowledge is difficult. Our technology practice always requires qualified scientists but many other career options are available to them. Imagine dropping 100 peas into a 10 litre barrel with 500 holes in it – this is the breadth of options open to skilled professionals.”
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Taking a punt with Penna
28 April 2010
Stating that Stoke City Council is ’20 minutes from Oblivion’ may not seem the best ploy to recruit the next CEO but Penna’s strategy paid off
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Technical know-how and behaviour win through
28 April 2010
What does if take to win two accolades at the Recruiter Awards for Excellence? Graham Simons spoke with managing director of CBSbutler, David Leyshon, to find out
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The importance of interviewing - it's not a tick box exercise!
28 April 2010
Interviewing is such a crucial part of the recruitment process. However, some of the most important aspects are often not covered in enough depth or are missed out entirely.
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The parties and their promises on jobs
28 April 2010
John Philpott, chief economic adviser for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), looks at how the policies of the three main political parties could effect the recruitment industry
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Web Comment
28 April 2010
Mark CalverIn response to ’Agency worker use doubles in construction’ (20 April) Let’s not kid ourselves that the market is having a growth spurt. Using agency labour is just cheap money as our clients run out of working capital during the winter months. Seller beware is the best way to sum up the current market conditions…
