Thursday, 09 February 2012

Recruiter
30-September 2009

  • Give us more value-add

    30-September 2009

    In-House Hannah on recruitment stitches people processes together

  • Arab exodus

    30-September 2009

    The exodus of Arab talent is costing their home countries $1.57bn annually, according to a report by TalentRepublic.net. The report shows that 54% of Arab students don’t return home after studying abroad. Statistics obtained from the Arab League, ILO, UNESCO and other Arab and international organisations show that about 100,000 scientists, doctors and engineers leave Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Tunis, Morocco and Algeria each year, and 70% of the scientists do not return home, ...

  • Bunking down and changing tactics

    30-September 2009

    Attracting talented candidates out of their secure job needs new methods, such as giving them more information on the situation in the sector and an employer’s future strategy

  • Buying into a client's culture

    30-September 2009

  • Charities get candidate commitment

    30-September 2009

    Recruiters in the charity sector are taking measures to ensure that candidates from industries hard hit by the recession are truly committed and won’t return to their old sectors when jobs prospects there improve.Charity organisations say they are inundated with applications from people who have been made redundant from other sectors, particularly finance, with junior roles receiving up to 300 applications.Ian Hammond, human resources director at the Salvation ...

  • City comment

    30-September 2009

  • Comment

    30-September 2009

  • Dear In-House Hannah...

    30-September 2009

    If I was In-House Hannah’s employer, I’d be asking myself the question: ‘Which adds more value, someone who spends her time copying and pasting names into her mobile, making her list look pretty with pictures or an experienced consultant who is going to network properly ie. get out and meet people?’ I’m sure Hannah has over 5,000 friends on Facebook as well as her ‘5,000 personally linked’ contacts. It rather begs the question: how many of those 5,000 contacts and friends ...

  • Fine, but don’t generalise

    30-September 2009

    In response to Gareth Osborne’s Soapbox, ‘Keeping recruiters at the coalface’ (Recruiter, 16 September), although I agree with him in part, I think it is wrong to generalise.

  • Four As needed to keep track on spend

    30-September 2009

    Jason Whitman

  • Green shoots are growing but slowly

    30-September 2009

    Despite the welcome signs of recovery, recruiters should start to build for the future rather than dive into immediate but short-term business

  • Healthcare

    30-September 2009

    Nursing shortages and more stringent immigration rules have led to tough times finding suitably qualified healthcare staff

  • HR transformations

    30-September 2009

    Setting up a shared service centre demands new skills and expertise. Deloitte turned to its RPO Alexander Mann Solutions to solve its challenge

  • International news: The Netherlands

    30-September 2009

  • It's vital that you know your market

    30-September 2009

    Recruiters should get to truly know their marketplace, understand their clients and comment more responsibly

  • Jobcentres failing

    30-September 2009

    The UK’s Jobcentres aren’t working and must be urgently reformed to tackle rising unemployment, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). In a survey of 2,500 FSB members, 34% said they found Jobcentre Plus ineffective or very ineffective, while another 49% did not even know if it worked well or not. Fewer than 20% of small businesses said they used Jobcentre Plus to recruit, preferring to use advertising and recruitment agencies. With unemployment set to rise to 3m by ...

  • Mixed feelings on reed's job fees

    30-September 2009

    Jess Wood

  • New Randstad firms link up on fact-finding day

    30-September 2009

    Simon Girling gets to grips with BBT

  • No ethics in this compromise to fit in here to end

    30-September 2009

    Neil Wilson’s article on industry trends in Recruiter, 2 September, was excellent. In my humble opinion the industry has needed to change for far too long, though I’m not entirely convinced that we need more research to tell us this. While we do need to build genuinely sustainable partnerships with our clients, contrary to Neil saying it’s solely the responsibility of recruiters, I do think that the clients have to take some responsibility here as well. They need to be open ...

  • OFT decision

    30-September 2009

    The Office of Fair Trading OFT is close to completing its investigation into alleged breaches of competition law by eight recruitment agencies in the construction sector. An OFT spokesperson told Recruiter that following the investigation, first reported in Recruiter in July 2006, decisions would be made “soon - this autumn”. The OFT alleges in a statement of objections that A Warwick Associates Ltd of Southend; Beresford Blake Thomas (BBT); CDI AndersElite; Eden Brown; Fusion People; ...

  • O'Higgins appointed chairman of AMS

    30-September 2009

  • Poor cash flow blights recruiters

    30-September 2009

    Despite signs that the economy is gradually on the upturn, recruiters are battling against an increase in the number of debtor days, which is adversely affecting cash flow. Colin Cottell and Graham Simons report

  • Public sector cuts? Bring on the interims

    30-September 2009

    Providers and clients alike can see the need for more interims in the public sector - at least in the short term. Vanessa Townsend reports

  • Public sector hiring in danger

    30-September 2009

  • Rain Forest brings the cloud closer to recruiters

    30-September 2009

    Barry Hinckley

  • Recession hits boards

    30-September 2009

    Job boards have been hit hard by the economic downturn, according to a new survey by whatjobsite.com. Among the findings of the survey of 43 UK job boards are: more than half (56%) say business is down; 70% report a decrease in job postings by recruitment agencies; and 68% report a decrease in job applications. There is also evidence that despite fewer jobs, jobseekers are flocking to job boards, with 64% reporting an increase in unique users, and 68% seeing a rise in CV uploads. However, ...

  • Recruiter murderer sentenced next month

    30-September 2009

    A man found guilty of murdering Kingsley Monk, the head of a recruitment agency in New Inn, Pontypool, and attempting to burn three other employees to death will be sentenced next month. The Guardian reports that Russell Carter was also found guilty at Newport Crown Court of three counts of attempted murder at the offices of commercial recruiter Driverline 247.

  • Recruitment turnover to fall by 16% in 2009

    30-September 2009

  • Searching the networks

    30-September 2009

    Penny Power: humanity networks

  • Soundbites

    30-September 2009

    What do you think the impact will be of the government’s new 21,000 apprenticeships in the public sector?

  • Stephen Moir

    30-September 2009

    DeeDee Doke talks with Cambridgeshire County Council’s influential people person

  • Talent managing - key to recruiting

    30-September 2009

    In the good old days, the recruiter’s role invariably used to stop once the candidate was placed. Colin Cottell reports on the changing face of recruitment and how it’s starting to be done differently

  • Use agencies

    30-September 2009

    Employers can minimise the risk of hiring candidates that are ineligible to work in the UK by using agencies, according to recruiters. Attorney General Baroness Scotland was fined £5,000 last week for employing a housekeeper who was not legally allowed to work in the UK. The UK Border Agency said Baroness Scotland had taken the necessary steps to check Tongan Loloahi Tapui’s right to work but had not retained a copy of documents, as required by law. Luc Fountain, managing director at ...