Tuesday, 07 February 2012

Recruiter
29-April 2009

  • A Budget for recruitment?

    29-April 2009

    Just hours after daunting unemployment figures were released, the Chancellor Alistair Darling had to unveil a raft of measures to halt the industry’s decline and stimulate employment. Christopher Goodfellow and Colin Cottell investigate its impact on the staffing sector

  • Berry appointed MD as part of Xchangeteam’s restructuring

    29-April 2009

    Xchangeteam is preparing for growth with the appointment of its new managing director, Mike Berry, following a restructuring of its operations.

  • Bigger is not always better

    29-April 2009

    Big is best may not always apply, as smaller recruiters are more able to adapt to the economy than their larger counterpart

  • Bleasdale advises on outsourcing

    29-April 2009

    Outsourcing as many functions as possible is key to recruiters increasing their net margins, Kate Bleasdale, executive vice chairman at Healthcare Locums, told the Annual Forum, sponsored by RBS and Baker Tilly.

  • CFOs still cutting costs says survey

    29-April 2009

    Cost cutting is the order of the day for the vast majority of chief financial officers, claims a new survey from professional services firm Deloitte.

  • Dealmakers

    29-April 2009

    Stiefel prefers RMG - Guest finishes Enhance buy - Oxinia adds Resource - QPS buys White Square - Kelly uses Cornerstone

  • Diary of...Sharon O'Mahoney

    29-April 2009

    Diary of…Sharon O’Mahoney Director, P&S Personnel

  • Directors buy confidence

    29-April 2009

    Directors in staffing companies have been taking advantage of what are still historically low prices by buying shares in their own companies

  • DSI bonds into Middle East talent

    29-April 2009

    United Arab Emirates-based end-to-end contracting company Drake & Scull International (DSI) is implementing the web-based recruitmentportal and applicant tracking system Bond Talent from Bond International Software.

  • Editor's Comment

    29-April 2009

    Rebranding is in the air at the moment — in fact, this issue could almost be subtitled, ‘A tale of two rebrandings’.

  • How can I enhance internal communication?

    29-April 2009

    To help your business adapt to market conditions and survive through the tough times, communication with your staff is key

  • International

    29-April 2009

    Sweden - US - Middle East - Ireland - Malaysia

  • IT & TELECOMS

    29-April 2009

    With clients deciding to change their hiring habits, recruiters in the sector have had to target the highly skilled niche areas to avoid undercutting their services

  • Let video help the older jobseeker

    29-April 2009

    The piece on EA Recruitment’s use of YouTube videos to promote candidates (Recruiter, 15 April, New Media, p11) provided a stark reminder of the barriers caused by preconceptions and stereotypes in the recruitment process.

  • MANUFACTURING ON THE UPTURN

    29-April 2009

    The return of high-value manufacturing is “just around the corner”, according to one analyst, with the investment in science and technology set to drive the upturn in employment demand.

  • New business models crucial to survive downturn

    29-April 2009

    The recruitment marketplace continues to be a challenging operating environment, according to BDO Stoy Hayward’s review of the latest data outputs from Recruitment Industry Benchmarking (RIB).

  • Opening Time

    29-April 2009

    New search and select firm - Career site for ARM - IT Job Board database for clients

  • Optimism drives buyers to seek out bargain deals

    29-April 2009

    Market confidence is causing an increase in the number of companies looking for acquisitions

  • Policing PPC advertising for fraudulent clicking

    29-April 2009

    Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising fraud has climbed to its highest rate ever in the last quarter of 2008, according to the Click Fraud Index.

  • Premier’s rebranding ambitions

    29-April 2009

    Premier Group’s CEO (UK and Netherlands) speaks to Colin Cottell about former Imprint company Morgan McKinley’s rebranding

  • Putting out feelers

    29-April 2009

    Tough times call for different measures and recruiters are having to rediscover their lead-generation skills anew. Graham Simons investigates recruitment’s change in focus

  • Randstad ‘nurses’ through Select Education’s rebrand

    29-April 2009

    A planned two-year transition to rebrand Select Education as Randstad Education will allow organisers to get it “perfectly right”, according to the education group’s marketing and development director.

  • REC clamps down on rogue users

    29-April 2009

    There has been a ‘dramatic’ increase in the number of non-Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) members using its logo.

  • Recruiter’s 3rd Annual Forum

    29-April 2009

    Despite the economic climate, the mood at the Forum was positive, with experts and industry figures giving advice on how to develop and maintain client relationships, the economics of long-term labour demand and consultant motivation.

  • Recruiters relish rise in over-skilled candidates

    29-April 2009

    As the number of candidates prepared to take jobs below their skill sets rises, businesses are capitalising on the available labour.

  • Right partners essential for international success

    29-April 2009

    Having the right management and business partner in place is vital if recruiters want to be successful in international markets, delegates at Recruiter’s 3rd Annual Forum, sponsored by RBS and Baker Tilly in London, heard.

  • Risk leads to stock rises

    29-April 2009

    The last week showed an interesting disconnect between stock markets and the actions of the Labour Government. Alistair Darling’s Budget received a cool reception from the City, yet the market continues to rally.

  • Security clearance guidelines limits potential public sector candidate pool

    29-April 2009

    Cabinet Office guidelines aren’t designed to disadvantage individuals without security clearance, but in practice the short timescales placed on recruitment agencies are often unrealistic for giving candidates enough time to go through the full clearance process (recruiter.co.uk, 14 April, ‘IT recruiters react to The Times claims’).

  • Show you care for your candidates

    29-April 2009

    Philby: demonstrate longterm candidate retention

  • Social care recruiter Universal Care

    29-April 2009

    Social care recruiter Universal Care has opened its new training facilities in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, to improve training for its temporary workers.

  • Soundbites

    29-April 2009

    Sue Marguet - Anne-Marie Hamill - Jessica Marshall

  • The sweet smell of ... firing

    29-April 2009

    And from one successful reality TV staffing professional to… oh dear. Yes, it is with great sadness — and just a whiff of injustice — that we bid a fond farewell to our HR consultant, Paula Jones.

  • Tough talking to get on best terms

    29-April 2009

    In these harsh economic times, just when businesses need loans the most, borrowing money seems to be fraught with more stringent terms and conditions than ever. Sarah Coles reveals that there are always ways to secure that loan — and squeeze the best deal out of banks

  • Web Chat

    29-April 2009

    Trouble ahead

  • You Reed it here first

    29-April 2009

    We bet that when Maria Brown was running her branches of Reed Accountancy in the UK she wouldn’t have laid money on ending up a consultant for the winning team on a cable TV reality show.