Web Chat 23rd July 2008
Published: 23 July 2008
Stay in the same lane
A 'clear strategy and strong leadership'... (recruiter.co.uk, 'Jobs market', 2 July) are certainly the traits of a good business. However, when external economic factors conspire to erode your market, the middle of an economic downturn is not the time to be changing lanes. What is needed in these hard times is creative strategy and strong leadership. The ability of companies to ride the hard times will be judged on just how creatively they can adapt to market forces and how brave they are in making the hard choices.
Ben Thomas
Enough's enough on the Lee-bashing front
I think Lee McQueen represented the recruitment industry very well throughout his entire time on The Apprentice (Recruiter, Letters, 9 July). There have been many worse recruitment consultants on the programme in the past and Lee was a worthy winner.
Tim Ambrose
Disastrous direction
Why is it illegal to discriminate against the type of candidate that will potentially cost a business money? Childbearing-aged women, especially for a smaller firm, can be disastrous — I don't see why we can't discriminate. I run training courses on how to ask both clients and candidates questions without being direct, because we can't ask questions like "do you want kids in the next two years?" or "how old are you?"... It's lunacy. I work as a director for one of the largest recruitment firms in the UK (top 5), so my opinion, while unlikely to be posted, is valid (pseudonym used).
Andy
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