Opinion
One size does not fit all!
There is great irony in the way that supply chain managers (SCMs) — as some managed service providers now prefer to style themselves — work with local authorities to supply their temporary recruitment needs. They like to portray themselves as at the...
Published: 01 October 2008
Picking up the pieces
Recruiters are taking advantage of the influx of jobseekers hitting the market and expanding their candidate databases....
Published: 01 October 2008
Times may be tough for us smaller agencies
I have just read your article (Recruiter, 17 September, Storm batters the minnows, p14) with interest and note how very true it is what you say. ...
Published: 01 October 2008
Web Chat 1st October 2008
Get LinkedIn with its positives...
Published: 01 October 2008
Do women still want to break the glass ceiling?
Writing as someone who has had 90% female bosses (happily) in his 30 years in business and who runs a company that has a senior director happily brought back on flexible part-time terms (requested by her) rather than a full-time option following...
Published: 17 September 2008
Good talent knows its worth
Gone are the days where Norman Tebbitt famously told the workforce to get on its bike. Today, the candidate controls the employment market....
Published: 17 September 2008
Web Chat 17th September 2008
Talented over 45s are just resting, silly...
Published: 17 September 2008
Is it because we is lazy?
With reference to the article on migrant workers (www.recruiter.co.uk, 26 August), it is not about filling a 'skills shortage' here in Britain, more about the fact that British people are very choosy about what they will and won't do and are innately...
Published: 03 September 2008
Soundbites 3rd September 2008
How is your company keeping up its margins as clients feel the squeeze?...
Published: 03 September 2008
The new gold rush
The Mountie, they say, always gets his man, and UK recruiters are benefiting from finding the right man or woman to meet the booming demand for software engineers, construction workers and pipeline engineers across Canada....
Published: 03 September 2008
Unite under the AWD banner
With the EU Agency Workers Directive (AWD) due its second reading in the European Parliament this month, it is more important than ever that the recruitment industry unites to ensure that the current proposal is not undone and that its provisions are...
Published: 03 September 2008
Web Chat 3rd September 2008
Flexible working review highly overdue...
Published: 03 September 2008
We'll miss them when they're gone
Even though Eastern European people do fill in the gaps we want them to (www.recruiter.co.uk, 26 August), the unskilled/skilled work they offer will eventually bring down the economy, as we will not have enough skills in the UK to make us more...
Published: 03 September 2008
Customer care revolution
Tougher economic times must lead to a change in processes and procedures, argues Elliot Wright...
Published: 20 August 2008
Letters... Sexual banter: not just harmless fun
Sexual banter in the workplace is something I take quite seriously (Recruiter, Letters, 23 July). I had a bad experience of this, and I feel passionately about ensuring that others take the right action to stamp out all of the bullies. ...
Published: 20 August 2008
Shares rally but short-term
Share prices have rallied sharply over the past two weeks, as a wave of takeover speculation washes over the market. ...
Published: 20 August 2008
Diary of...
Liz Sutch Consultant, Carrot Pharma Recruitment Monday In the office for 8.30. I go through my inbox, call two candidates and send some emails. In our Monday morning meeting we catch up on advertising, la...
Published: 06 August 2008
Do more to reward those at the bottom
I am writing in response to your recent article on the Top Wealth Generating Careers Report 2008 (recruiter.co.uk, 10 July 2008), which stated that recruiters in the City take home the fourth-highest average annual income. It seems to me this repo...
Published: 06 August 2008
Fresh bloodvital to future
It's an old debate: is fresh blood in an industry better than years of experience? Will asking the dumb questions encourage innovation and new ways of working? Or do you risk creating havoc through uninformed decisions?...
Published: 06 August 2008
Holding out for a hero
Bringing speeding buses to a halt? Pah! Keanu Reeves has got nothing on ASAP Pertemps employee, Luke Turner (below), who has been hailed a hero after winning the prestigious national council worker of the year award for his exceptional act of bravery....
Published: 06 August 2008
