Thursday, 09 February 2012

Recruiter
DeeDee Doke Editorial

DeeDee has been the editor of Recruiter since May 2005 and launched Recruiter’s sister title, Resourcing, in November 2007. She has written on human resource and recruitment issues for The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Guardian and a number of UK business magazines. She is a former editor of Global HR and Employers’ Law magazines, of which both titles belong to the Personnel Today Group.

  • Recruitment holds its own in recession

    January 2012

    The latest rankings of the fastest growing recruitment firms in the UK once again highlight the recruitment industry’s ability to reinvigorate and flourish in the toughest of conditions

  • Pay slips at Royal Mail

    January 2012

    Union officials will meet with Royal Mail executives later this month to discuss payroll problems that left some of the postal service’s seasonal workers without pay in the run-up to Christmas.

  • Robinson Keane HR to challenge HR market

    January 2012

    Two former managing directors of Hays Human Resources this month have launched a new HR division for multi-sector recruiter Kellan Group. The new offering, Robinson Keane HR Professionals, is aimed at providing “a high quality boutique [recruitment service] on a national scale” for HR managerial and director positions, associate director Julie Waddicor told Recruiter.

  • Editor's comment

    14 December 2011

  • Sustaining profitability

    14 December 2011

    Commerciality and corporate social responsibility can co-exist — and candidates for sustainability-centric jobs increasingly reflect such dualfocused mindsets, according to Andrew Cartland, managing director of sustainability recruiter Acre Resources.

  • Staffing for the future begins yesterday

    30 November 2011

    Workforce planning can be the missing link in many an organisation’s strategic success. DeeDee Doke discovered there’s no magic bullet

  • Editor's comment

    30 November 2011

  • Global companies reap the benefit of workforce planning

    30 November 2011

    Howes: uptake in workforce planning

  • McDonald's selects Olympic squad

    30 November 2011

    Langhorn: strength of our training

  • Editor's comment

    16 November 2011

  • Jobseekers to get brand fit for retail

    16 November 2011

    Participants in employment and training programmes for retail work are benefiting by also taking part in ’brand fit’ sessions to help them understand where they might be happiest in work.

  • Maverick recruiting is a rare find

    16 November 2011

    Resourcing professionals at Recruiter’s first book event discussed the the ’jagged CV’ and the value of hiring unlikely talent. DeeDee Doke reports

  • MBA students must go and experience Asia

    16 November 2011

    Ivy Yang

  • More clear guidance for barrier-free recruitment

    16 November 2011

    Employers and recruiters must have access to a single central point of information to learn about providing barrier-free recruitment if it is to become a reality in the UK, according to Richard Toy, operations director for SkyBlue Recruitment.

  • Recruiters: don't ignore the mobile poor

    16 November 2011

    Tony Fish

  • Editors comment

    2 November 2011

    Auto-enrolment is getting within touching distance

  • Barrier-free recruiting aim of 10-point protocol

    2 November 2011

    The growing pressure on recruiters to ensure their minds and shortlists are open to disabled candidates was ratcheted up yet another notch last month with the Employers’ Forum on Disability’s (EFD) launch of a 10-point protocol aimed at providing barrier-free recruitment.

  • Using Hangouts tests applicants

    2 November 2011

    Recruiters at Moneysupermarket.com have successfully used Hangouts, the group video chat application on new social network Google+, to meet and interview candidates for specialist IT roles at the personal finance site.

  • Editor's comment

    19 October 2011

  • Editors Comment

    Wed, 5 Oct 2011

  • Keeping the top guys awake at night

    5 October 2011

    Cost per hire, new channels to talent pools and the ins and outs of employee referral schemes - myriad recruitment issues prevent heads of recruitment and resourcing from getting their full complement of sleep every night. DeeDee Doke asked three key global talent thought leaders what issues lost them sleep

  • Recruiter Awards reflect industry practices and developments

    5 October 2011

  • Recruiting passive talent 'part of jobless problem'

    5 October 2011

    Kevin Wheeler

  • Empresaria keeps eye on East as Kreulen steps up

    21 September 2011

    Joost Kreulen

  • Kellan's Hardman looks to HR and legal

    21 September 2011

    Hardman: launching into other areas

  • Recruitment practices for disabled need review

    21 September 2011

  • Editor's Comment

    7 September 2011

  • Hayley Taylor

    7 September 2011

    Secret of my success I haven’t got one I can’t even believe that I’m here! The only thing I would say that carries me through is being able to communicate and be compassionate and understanding even if you don’t like their point of view

  • Jobmother warns on hiring rioters

    7 September 2011

    Taylor: stand by your decision

  • Law firm Linklaters asks the important questions

    7 September 2011

    Were you from the first generation of your immediate family to experience a university education? And what type of school did you attend feepaying, non-fee paying or an international school?

  • Editors Comment

    17 August 2011

  • Making the most of social services

    17 August 2011

    The lines between social media and professional metrics are blurring. Sam Burne James and DeeDee Doke report

  • Valerie Todd

    17 August 2011

    DeeDee Doke talks to Crossrail’s director of talent and resources

  • Mobile app targets morning job seekers

    17 August 2011

    Jeffery

  • Editor's Comment

    27 July 2011

    To paraphrase the estimable Bonnie Tyler, we’ve been “holding out for heroes” in terms of serious thought leadership in UK recruitment. Good news — it is emerging. Matthew Jeffery’s challenging treatise on Recruitment 4.0 in our Trends section this issue offers food for consideration and rousing argument. Let the debates begin.

  • Going global with inclusiveness

    27 July 2011

    The challenge of introducing a global inclusion strategy was raised at a recent Inclusive Employers event in London. DeeDee Doke reports

  • HR Circle aims to link up Europe-wide work needs

    27 July 2011

    The European community needs a “single strand of co-ordinated structure to address an approach to creation of employment”, according to Gerry Skelton, HR director at air traffic controller NATS and a UK representative at the European HR Directors Circle.

  • REC's harsh lessons in feedback

    27 July 2011

    The recent expulsion of four critics of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) from an REC-run online forum has erupted into an upgraded war of words and rumblings of possible legal action.

  • UK 'relatively skill poor', claims CEO of UK skills commission

    27 July 2011

    Davis: manufacturing needs to step up

  • Editor's Comment

    13 July 2011

  • Antal powers into Central Europe

    13 July 2011

    Goodwin: Central European powerhouse

  • Unilever to recruit future managers

    13 July 2011

    Maxin: treating the candidate as a consumer instead of a product

  • Editor's comment

    29 June 2011

  • Candidates' mobile use on the up and up

    29 June 2011

    Failing to use mobile technology as a candidate attraction channel is “turning your back on candidates”, a self-described “mobile recruiting evangelist” warned in-house recruiters last week.

  • Competition welcomed as REC turns a profit

    29 June 2011

    The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) earned a £47,329 profit in 2010, achieving a significant financial turnaround from 2009, when it ended the year with an operating deficit of £587,551.

  • Editor's comment

    15 June 2011

  • Searching high and low: no sourcer's stone left unturned

    15 June 2011

    Global sourcing knows no boundaries, but when it comes to uncovering hard-to-find talent, often the solution can be found closer to home. DeeDee Doke investigates

  • Global instability will affect hiring for years

    15 June 2011

    Insolvency, inflation and instability will dominate the global environment for some time to come conditions that will affect organisations’ ability to effectively handle their talent issues, the chief economist of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) warned a London audience last week.

  • PwC reaches UAE students

    15 June 2011

    Stockton: build relationships early on

  • Editor's Comment

    1 June 2011

  • Pink squid

    1 June 2011

    DeeDee Doke meets two co-founders of the creative agency

  • Low turnover a problem claims workforce expert

    1 June 2011

  • Renew customer commitments

    1 June 2011

    Stratten: renew your customer vows

  • Editor's Comment

    18 May 2011

  • Adapting to 'new normal'

    18 May 2011

    They’re back. The difficult duo of the war for talent and its partner-in-crime attrition have resurfaced in organisations around the world as economies emerge from recession.

  • Criticisms over new travel expenses model

    18 May 2011

    Controversy over expenses payments to temporary workers has erupted again over a ’new business model’ that critics said was being used by recruiters to reduce income tax for workers and National Insurance payments for both worker and employer.

  • Editor's comment

    4 May 2011

  • Broadbean reveals China expansion

    4 May 2011

    Martin: looking to wider picture

  • Young talent turn their back on uni to take up apprenticeships

    4 May 2011

    Hamer: apprenticeships offer a different route to learning for some young people

  • Editor's comment

    20 April 2011

    DeeDee Doke Editor

  • Gordon Chesterman

    20 April 2011

    DeeDee Doke talks to the director, Cambridge Careers Service

  • Interims face public sector squeeze in daily rates

    20 April 2011

    Most interim managers working in the public sector have dropped their daily rates - some by as much as 30+% - as a result of a tightening market for their services, according to a new survey by Gatenby Sanderson Interim Leadership.

  • Students now seek career advice before final year

    20 April 2011

    Cambridge University students are seeking job advice earlier during their university studies than they did 10 years ago, reflecting a trend that could pick up even more steam when the need to hit the job market running hits home with increased fees from next year.

  • Editor's comment

    6 April 2011

  • Brits look to Oz to get career back

    6 April 2011

    Karen Colfer

  • Change hunts talent for Africa

    6 April 2011

    Ramsey: international makes up 40-50%

  • Going green wins Sammons silver

    6 April 2011

    Sarah Gordon

  • Nicoll Curtin looks East with Singapore opening

    6 April 2011

    Technology recruiter Nicoll Curtin has this week opened a new office in Singapore to serve investment banking clients.

  • Editor's Comment

    23 March 2011

  • Spotlight falls on REC governance

    23 March 2011

    Freeston: resigned from the REC council

  • Editor's Comment

    9 March 2011

  • Tribunal criticises REC redundancy process

    9 March 2011

  • Editor's Comment

    23 February 2011

  • Lean recruiting, meatier value

    23 February 2011

    Recruiters should think “lean” to give their candidates and clients the most value possible.

  • Editor's Comment

    9 February 2011

    Greetings from the US. Jobs are big news here. Three cheers for small and medium-sized US businesses: in January, small businesses created 97,000 new jobs, mediums 79,000 and large ones …

  • Tony Vardy

    9 February 2011

    DeeDee Doke meets the MD of Korn/Ferry Whitehead Mann

  • Property recruitment market looking up

    9 February 2011

    Competition is hotting up again post-recession for skilled property industry professionals, according to Sally Chacatte, group human resources director for global property business Knight Frank.

  • Editor's comment

    19 January 2011

  • Reed’s achievements celebrated with honour

    19 January 2011

    Alec Reed CBE, founder and former chairman of the Reed staffing and learning empire, will receive a knighthood this year for services to business and charity.

  • A judgement that alters the landscape

    19 January 2011

    DeeDee Doke investigates just how far-reaching the consequences of Mr Justice Parker’s recent ruling against Cordant’s challenge will be

  • HB shores up business

    19 January 2011

    Hamilton Bradshaw (HB) chairman James Caan and managing director Tristan Ramus have created a new war chest worth up to £50m to advance the company’s merger and acquisition activity and private equity work, all in the recruitment sector.

  • Work, learn and earn at KPMG

    19 January 2011

    KPMG’s radical new approach to recruiting school leavers into their organisation and into accountancy could ring the changes for how other UK businesses and professions bring in fresh talent, KPMG head of audit Oliver Tant predicted last week.

  • Editor's comment

    Technology Outlook 2011

  • Jobseekers stand out by bringing careers to life

    Technology Outlook 2011

    With an evergrowing number of candidates on the market, DeeDee Doke investigates the new ways that jobseekers are finding to getcompanies to notice them above others

  • Editor's Comment

    8th December 2010

  • AA drives its recruitment process online

    8th December 2010

    Taking breakdown and motoring organisation AA’s recruitment process online and streamlining it has seen the number of completed applications roughly double to more than 30,000 in two years.

  • Argyll's new Asian move

    8th December 2010

    Middle management recruitment brand Argyll Scott will open an office in Singapore in the first quarter of 2011. Marek Dalyluk, previously a director and founding partner of finance and banking recruiter Investigo, will head the new office, where the sector focus will initially be on financial services.

  • Greg Allen

    8th December 2010

    DeeDee Doke interviews Nokia UK head of recruitment EMEA

  • Editor's Comment

    24 November 2010

    The past two weeks has had a bit of that ’bad news-good news’ flavour. Bibby Financial Services’ Bibby Industry Index tells us that the business services sector is still the UK’s poorest performing industry in 2010’s third quarter, despite a marked improvement since the same time last year. And Bibby’s report goes on to quote a recruiter as predicting that a “real recovery” won’t take hold for another five years. No doubt many recruiters share this pessimistic view.

  • Age equality policies on increase in recruitment

    24 November 2010

    The percentage of UK organisations which have adopted equal opportunity policies addressing age has increased by 11% since 2004/05, according to a recent survey by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

  • Gala Coral tools up to cope with applicants

    24 November 2010

  • Editor's comment

    10 November 2010

  • Agencies not put off from £10k 'investment' in Premier Foods

    10 November 2010

    British food manufacturer Premier Foods reports that 75% of the 16 permanent recruiters who last year invested £10,000 each in the company’s “mutual investment” in business development initiative have confirmed their interest in taking part for a second year.

  • Applicants fail to show for Disneyland Paris roles

    10 November 2010

    Thiollier: disappointed with response

  • Huxley's international reach extends

    10 November 2010

  • Hiring across the generation gap

    27 October 2010

    With the default retirement age soon to be a relic of the past, DeeDee Doke discovers that the greater battle is to change both workers’ and employers’ attitudes to age

  • Editor's Comment

    27 October 2010

    There’s a certain irony to the acronym that is now synonymous with the massive spending cuts announced last week by the Chancellor. In a more buoyant time, not so long ago, CSR was shorthand for Corporate Social Responsibility and doing good in one’s community. Now CSR stands for what the government probably considers its own version of corporate social responsibility, the Comprehensive Spending Review.

  • EFA fights costs of DRA end

    27 October 2010

    Rachel Krys

  • Comment

    13 October 2010

    What a stimulating two weeks it has been. Recruiter education has been at the forefront of APSCo and REC activity in this period with APSCo’s Ann Swain taking the lead on broadening the horizons of the industry’s senior management. The REC is taking a more ’back to basics’ approach in revamping its qualifications for those starting out in recruitment and mid-level professionals.

  • Broadbean's Martin has ambitious expansion and investment plans

    13 October 2010

    Martin: we need to be a global business

  • Henley Business School launches MBA in recruitment with APSCo

    13 October 2010

    An executive MBA in recruitment will be launched at the University of Reading’s Henley Business School in September 2011.

  • Sourcing secrets at SourceCon

    13 October 2010

    The rise of sourcing as a profession all on its own within the HR and recruitment communities was highlighted at SourceCon 2010, a conference held at the end of last month in Washington, DC.

  • Sourcers on the rise

    Wed, 29 Sep 2010

    The rise of sourcing as a profession all its own within the HR and recruitment communities was highlighted on Tuesday at the first day of SourceCon 2010, a conference for sourcing professionals being held this week in Washington, DC.Practitioners of art, science and information retrieval sourcers must be able to “see people where other people see code”, as speaker Glen Cathey, vice president of recruiting at US professional staffing and solutions company Kforce, told the ...

  • Staying ahead of the curve

    29 September 2010

    Tim Cook, the outgoing UK & Ireland managing director at Hays, sees his new role as head of business innovation as a natural progression from “putting building blocks in place” over the past two years to actively boosting the firm’s technological agility.

  • Comment

    15 September 2010

    Backed by a raft of diverse research, Talent2’s Bruce Morton makes a persuasive case for the argument that talent is about “how stuff gets done”.

  • Managing talent is only way forward

    15 September 2010

    Talent should today be defined in terms of what is “the best way to get things done”, a London audience heard last week.

  • Press raises its game in print advertising

    15 September 2010

    The national press is upping the stakes in the recruitment advertising market, with the Financial Times the latest to undergo a relaunch in that area.

  • Comment

    1 September 2010

    The way candidates are assessed for senior management roles is changing, as we report in this 1 September issue. More important, what many organisations look for in their senior managers is evolving too.

  • HR yet to fully embrace social media

    1 September 2010

    A new snapshot poll by online community HR Business Network has revealed that senior HR professionals have not yet completely embraced social media in recruitment.

  • Michael Page looks to Latin expansion

    1 September 2010

    Michael Page International will open an office in Chile later this year and is considering a move into India as the company deepens and expands its global presence.

  • Steve Ingham

    1 September 2010

    DeeDee Doke interviews the CEO at Michael Page

  • Comment

    18 August 2010

    In the US, the state of Oregon had a law forbidding customers at petrol stations to pump their own petrol. In neighbouring states, the practice was legal and it was possible to save a few cents per gallon of petrol by doing so.

  • Aerospace sector raises manpower optimism

    18 August 2010

    Amid continuing economic uncertainty, the UK aerospace sector has offered up a bright spot this summer with the news that industry revenues rose by 5.4% during 2009 to £22.2bn, according to the UK’s AeroSpace, Defence and Security (A|D|S) trade organisation.

  • Betfair takes a punt with in-house recruitment

    18 August 2010

    Former Dell recruiter Malcolm Kemp has joined Betfair as head of talent acquisition to bring recruitment in-house. The move is part of taking the online gambling firm to its next stage of growth.

  • McAfee builds a better pipe

    18 August 2010

    Recruiter Stewart Brooks of communications security firm McAfee thinks he may have found the ’holy grail’ of recruitment: a talent pipeline in which talent is identified, primed, kept warm and delivered before it is needed.

  • Rebranding ReThink

    18 August 2010

    Full service business and technical recruitment specialist ReThink has undergone a major rebranding that aims to set the company apart from other recruiters by promoting its consultants’ accountability, experience, expertise, qualifications and consultative approach.

  • Comment

    21 July 2010

    Everyone needs a mentor, a guide, a personal guru, if you will. and expertise.

  • Smart resourcing

    21 July 2010

    DeeDee Doke hears from speakers at the conference

  • FiveTen taps Kazakhstan

    21 July 2010

    Kazakhstan is currently underdeveloped as a recruitment market but its potential is “enormous”, according to Natalia Kurkchi, country manager of the newly launched Antal Kazakhstan.

  • Randstad benefits from 'more unified approach'

    21 July 2010

    Randstad’s acquisition of Vedior has led to a more collegial way of working between the old Vedior companies, according to Brian Wilkinson, a member of the Randstad board, and country manager for the UK.

  • Comment

    07 July 2010

    Colin Woodward of Contract Scotland is truly a standout in reflecting the recruitment industry’s best. See our report on p7 about a recruiter who exemplifies the best of corporate social responsibility in the world of work.

  • Harrods' recruiters learn its new career guidelines

    07 July 2010

    Harrods has unveiled to its preferred retail and food recruiters newly launched guidelines for career paths, development and performance expectations for its retail managers as part of helping recruitment partners to better understand its business.

  • HR must be tougher

    07 July 2010

    One of the UK’s highest-profile human resources directors has taken a tough line with his professional peers in urging them to “get a whole lot wiser to the business” and recognise that “real HR is about profit and the bottom line”.

  • In-house service for staff

    23 June 2010

    Royal Bank of Scotland increased staff uptake of outplacement services over the last year by more than 20% when it handed those responsibilities to a team of in-house recruiters.

  • Comment

    09 June 2010

    Last week, the thorny subject of discrimination in employment reared its head after the leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman declared that half of the positions in the Shadow Cabinet should be designated for women.

  • We like people, people like us

    09 June 2010

    Definitions of cultural fit vary within organisations, but is yours aimed at getting the very best out of current and new employees? DeeDee Doke breaks the code behind the platitudes

  • Antal on a roll and looks for Indian partners

    09 June 2010

    Recruitment business franchisers Antal International Networks is “on a roll and really hitting India hard” as it continues an aggressive global expansion, according to chief executive officer Doug Bugie.

  • BBC's creative approach

    09 June 2010

    Two resourceful recruiters at BBC Vision have created a talent pipeline for newcomers to the media industry, which is doing double duty as a virtual pool of contingency admin and support workers for the broadcaster’s production and website teams.

  • Searching for a company's soul

    09 June 2010

    The recession has prompted organisations to undergo significant self-examination about their internal culture, according to the head of HR consulting at Capgemini Consulting. By doing so, they are defining what makes their cultures what they are as well as what determines employee cultural fit within the organisation.

  • Comment

    26 May 2010

    Tax reform must be at the top of the list of priorities for this government because without it, little else can move forward, particularly in the employment/jobs arena.

  • Charlotte Dean-Hughes

    26 May 2010

    DeeDee Doke interviews UK talent supply leader at P&G

  • More openness needed in our unconscious bias

    26 May 2010

    Unconscious bias is holding back organisations from achieving ultimate workforce diversity and inclusive cultures despite having implemented arrays of diversity-promoting initiatives.

  • Comment

    12 May 2010

    You can tell it’s spring - not by the cold, grey weather, but by the re-emergence of recruitment’s serial entrepreneurs.

  • Goodbye to golden hellos

    12 May 2010

    Recruiters at corporate dental group Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) are working to improve their influencing skills to cut the costs of ’golden hellos’ paid to successful candidates.

  • Preventing the contact tug-of-war

    12 May 2010

    The thorny question of which contacts belong to an individual and which belong to the employer rears its head more and more, especially with the rise in the use in social media sites. DeeDee Doke investigates

  • Twenty Recruitment's Marsden says banking talent demand on up

    12 May 2010

    The banking industry’s demand for talent in infrastructure areas such as finance and IT is approaching the dizzy heights of 2006, according to the founder of multi-sector Twenty Recruitment Group.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Comment

    14 April 2010

    Branding sophisticates can stop reading this piece right here - or read on, if you want a moment in which you can groan, tear at your hair, say a few choice words and know that you enjoy our full empathy.

  • Adecco's brands 'almost unbeatable'

    14 April 2010

    Cross selling of its multiple brands is high on the agenda for Adecco UK & Ireland as the company continues to integrate its acquisitions into the organisational fold, according to chief executive Peter Searle.

  • Employee retention vital in war for talent

    14 April 2010

    The major battlefield in the ongoing war for talent now lies more in the area of employee engagement and retention instead of attraction, according to Siemens’ vice president, corporate and marketing communications, South-West Europe.

  • Huxley's research reveals boom for IT professionals in India

    14 April 2010

    A new market for IT professionals is emerging in India that is fuelling demand for expatriate Indians to return home.

  • Comment

    31 March 2010

    The enthusiasm of Don Leslie of tax recruiter/management consultancy BLT is palpable when he talks about web innovations like Yelp (straplined Real people. Real reviews).

  • Move beyond efficient to effective recruiting

    31 March 2010

    What should a new recruit be able to achieve in a particular role at three, six and nine months on the job?

  • Comment

    17 March 2010

    How did the Ides of March turn out for you? Otherwise known as 15 March, it’s a date that lives in infamy, as they say, because of the link with Julius Caesar’s assassination. Perhaps it will live in infamy here if the Agency Workers Directive was passed, as anticipated into UK legislation, on Monday. Actually, it’s not its passage that will bring employers and recruiters harm - it will be the ignorance of its nuances and turning a blind eye to its inevitability that will bode badly ...

  • Sharon Kardam

    17 March 2010

    DeeDee Doke speaks to TfL’s head of resourcing

  • Hire a Hero gathers momentum

    17 March 2010

    The Hard Rock Cafe in Manchester is one of the latest employers to sign on to the Hire a Hero campaign aimed at matching ex-forces personnel to jobs.

  • Public sector cuts could bring new career paths

    17 March 2010

  • Talking to unions key to limiting strife at TfL

    17 March 2010

    Working effectively on recruitment issues with unions across the breadth of Transport for London (TfL) services requires “constant open communication”, according to Sharon Kardam, the transport system’s head of resourcing.

  • HR key to businesses' integrity

    17-February-2010

    A former headhunter-turned-ethics professor has called on HR professionals to lead their organisations in building a culture of integrity.

  • ReThink bags Aquent's Ciecierski

    03-February-2010

  • Editor's Comment

    20-January-2010

  • Alistair Cox

    09-December-2009

    DeeDee Doke interviews the chief executive of Hays

  • Editor's Comment

    09-December-2009

    Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the Gangmasters Licensing Authority when plans were being made to clamp down on alleged abusers of tax-free allowances for workers as a way to undercut rivals and save a little money.

  • A good game for women

    09-December-2009

    Global recruiter Interactive Selection has launched a website-centred initiative to attract more women into the male-dominated games industry.

  • Compliance strong as Hays learns from price-fixing

    09-December-2009

    Illegal involvement in a price-fixing arrangement in 2005 led specialist recruiter Hays to strengthen its internal emphasis on compliance and legal awareness, the firm’s chief executive has told Recruiter.

  • TUI Travel joins up applicant journey in its subsidiaries

    09-December-2009

    Travel company TUI Travel UK & Ireland has revitalised its candidate experience programme after bringing together and streamlining the recruitment operations of subsidiaries First Choice and Thomson.

  • Editor's comment

    25-November-2009

    The resourcing department at law firm Eversheds is putting their money where their mouth is.As we report in this issue, Eversheds has developed a well thought-out, two-tiered payment system, in connection with external recruiters, which defines how it wants its recruitment partnerships to work. Their external agency partners may not like the new specifications but there will be no question about what is expected of them. Then they can choose not to work with Eversheds, if ...

  • Lorna Bryson

    25-November-2009

    DeeDee Doke spoke with the head of resourcing for Tesco

  • Brands bemoan lack of global service

    25-November-2009

    A seamless global offering is the missing essential ingredient in outsourced recruitment services, creating a gap that is being sorely felt by current clients of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firms.

  • More power to the employer brand

    25-November-2009

    In the final part of Recruiter’s analysis of the recruiter.co.uk survey on the future of recruitment, DeeDee Doke looks at the responses from thein-house recruiters and how they see the industry emerging

  • Editor's comment

    11-November-2009

    Profitability is alive and well in the wonderful world of recruitment - and Recruiter’s 2009 Hot 100 proves it!

  • Spring uprising expected for recruiters

    11-November-2009

    Over the past two months, recruiter.co.uk surveyed recruiters about their recent business experiences and their expectations for the future of their industry. DeeDee Doke highlights the first part of the findings

  • Editor's Comment

    28-October-2009

    News of Adecco’s intent to acquire the MPS Group - parent of recruiters Badenoch & Clark, Judd Farris and Modis - was surely the Swiss company’s coup de grâce after securing the purchase of Spring. What a stable Adecco will boast in the UK alone! Predictions of some time ago that the market would see consolidation are coming true, and on a rather grand scale.

  • Hays unveils branding

    28-October-2009

    Hays has unveiled a major company transformation programme aimed at securing the specialist recruiter’s place in the league of top quality brands, such as professional services firm Accenture, BMW cars and Ritz-Carlton hotels.

  • Recruiters' £55m overspend on their boom-time buys

    28-October-2009

    A review of 31 listed recruitment businesses by advisers to the recruitment sector BDO has revealed a 32% average write-down in the value of goodwill for acquisitions made during the boom times.

  • Editor's Comment

    14-October 2009

    The biggest story in recruitment over the last two weeks is a tragedy in many respects.

  • Fishing for flexibility from the talent pool

    14-October 2009

    As firms start thinking about their strategy post-recession, organisations must look to their new recruits to drive their business forward in the future. DeeDee Doke investigates what qualities these candidates need

  • Carry out 'a social audit'

    14-October 2009

    In-house recruiters have a major role to play, along with HR and corporate communications teams, in helping organisations monitor what is being said about them on the internet.

  • Fashioning new placements

    14-October 2009

    When New Look decided to relocate its commercial team to London, the fashion store called on Placement UK. DeeDee Doke investigates

  • Financial services firms rethink brands

    14-October 2009

    Financial services employers are rethinking their model employee profiles and employer brands as they face having to recover public confidence in the wake of the economic downturn.

  • Comment

    30-September 2009

  • Public sector hiring in danger

    30-September 2009

  • Editor's comment

    16-September 2009

  • Grads to Grant Thornton

    16-September 2009

    L-r: Grant Thornton’s Scott Barnes and Samantha Weston

  • Kwit Fit filling of contact centre insurance roles

    16-September 2009

    Stewart: lot of opportunity to grow

  • Editor's Comment

    02-September 2009

    The last throes of the ‘silly season’ of the UK’s promised barbecue summer are with us, and regular service is resuming. But at Recruiter, it’s not quite business as usual. We’ve smartened up our look with a livelier and more inviting design.

  • Interactions online: the next intelligent steps

    02-September 2009

    Simply searching through social networking sites and groups is the easy part. But as DeeDee Doke discovered, users are finding the next steps of true knowledge gathering are not as easily navigated

  • Cautious response to FSA

    02-September 2009

    City recruiters are wary of the Financial Services Authority’s proposed new rules on bankers’ pay and bonuses that would link their pay more closely with the banks’ longterm profitability, and which are planned for implementation in January 2010.

  • Professional sites net members in recession

    02-September 2009

    Professional networking sites are spinning the global downturn into membership gold as jobseekers and recruiters alike increasingly turn to them to find work, clients and candidates.

  • Editor's Comment

    12-August 2009

  • Money matters

    12-August 2009

    A cautious optimism is taking hold on the economy, but a few good angels could still save recruiters from financial hell, writes DeeDee

  • Recruiters rise in anger regarding phoenix firms

    22-July 2009

    nger is rising towards recruiters who put their businesses into administration or liquidation and return to trading shortly after, trailing unpaid bills in the wake of their flashy cars.

  • Editor's Comment

    22-July 2009

    If the wolf is at the door, we say unload the Porsches and Ferraris first and pay back a few creditors.

  • Editor's Comment

    08-July 2009

    To read the national press, it would be easy to believe that graduates are the only segment of the population to feel the negative economic impact of the recession.

  • Rise’s Campbell: in it to win it

    08-July 2009

    Managing director of Scottish recruiter Rise Group spoke with DeeDee Doke about his winning formula and future plans for the firm

  • Budgets force firms to be creative in career growth

    08-July 2009

    The recession is forcing organisations to become more creative about career development for its employees, the group HR director forAXA UK has told a London audience.

  • Campbell wants to Rise even further

    08-July 2009

    Rise Group managing director Gregor Campbell would like his growing organisation of recruitment companies to be recognised as a “good platform for entrepreneurs to help them go further”.

  • Talent needs managing differently in long term

    08-July 2009

    Organisations attempting to build high-performance global workforces as they emerge from the recession will need to make long-term,structural changes to how they manage talent, according to a leading consultant.

  • Editor's Comment

    24-June 2009

    The revelation that recruiters don’t feel able to supply temporary staff to the London Borough of Waltham Forest because they fear that their candidates won’t pass the borough’s screening process is a shocking indictment of standards in some section of the industry.

  • Talent ‘tough’ for charities

    24-June 2009

    Attracting professionals with skills who will work for salaries that UK charities can afford is one of the most critical issues facing the socalled Third Sector, according to charity executives.

  • Editor's Comment

    10-June-2009

    Without question, the hot topic of the week has been the revelation that The Guardian, long seen as a critical vehicle for recruitment advertising, is dipping its toe into candidate representation. The fury has been palpable in some quarters, while other recruiters have taken a more sanguine view of the development. Causing the most anger is what seems to have been this highly regarded media group’s stealth approach to introducing its test venture. The Guardian’s commercial ...

  • Guardian's ad service courts controversy

    10-June-2009

    The Guardian’s apparent move onto recruitment agency turf by representing candidates who have applied for jobs online has been characterised as “the wrong service, at the wrong time”.

  • Editor's Comment

    27-May-2009

  • Unemployment fuels rise in hiring at Jobcentre Plus

    27-May-2009

  • Firms to bail out from Belgium?

    13-May-2009

    Organisations already concerned about high staffing costs in Continental Europe may shy away from launching or expanding operations in Belgium, particularly due to a mandate to raise employees’ salaries there by 4.51% this year.

  • 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’.

  • Editor's Comment

    15-April-2009

    Andrew Gilchrist’s bold acquisition of 31 branches of Kelly Services has injected some much needed positive energy into recruitment at a psychologically grey time.

  • De Maeseneire’s global skill, motive for Adecco

    15-April-2009

    Significant business experience in emerging markets may have been the tipping point for the appointment of Patrick De Maeseneire as Adecco’s new chief executive.

  • Fuelling a forecourt revolution

    01-Apr-2009

    When BP decided to transform its forecourts, it turned to McCarthy Recruitment to find its people. DeeDee Doke investigates

  • Editor's comment

    18-Mar-2009

  • Sweet vision of Adecco's Dieter Scheiff

    18-Mar-2009

    The chief executive of Adecco explains his global vision to DeeDee Doke

  • Interaction snaps up 31 Kelly Services branches

    18-Mar-2009

  • Adecco works to reinvent its approach, says Scheiff

    18-Mar-2009

    Scheiff: cynical business

  • Unfreezing the cold war for talent

    18-Mar-2009

    As business gets to grip with the recession, companies are deploying different tactics to have the best and brightest in their organisation, according to a new report. DeeDee Doke looks into how the new people agenda will affect the workforces of the future

  • Maltese SmartCity hub needs recruiter input

    04-Mar-2009

    First came Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Dubai Knowledge Village. Now the creator of those successful Dubai business clusters is planning a similar centre in Malta, which could potentially create 5,600 jobs.

  • Insurance scheme cover for temp pay

    04-Mar-2009

    A leading recruitment business broker is calling for the industry to organise a financial bonding scheme that would cover temporary workers’ pay if a recruiter becomes insolvent and cannot cover payroll costs.

  • Putting the talent in the Sky pipeline

    18-Feb-2009

    As staying in becomes the new going out, Sky is benefiting from this trend. DeeDee Doke met the team responsible for attracting the talent to cope with this new demand

  • Clients need recruiters to be in the know, says BSkyB

    18-Feb-2009

    Mirrington: knowledge is key

  • Elite Academy trains up student recruiters

    18-Feb-2009

    O’Sullivan: wants this to be a de facto way into the industry

  • It is time to fight back

    Beating the downturn - Feb 2009

    How many times in the past few months have you read phrases like ‘in the current economic conditions’ or ‘as the recession tightens its hold’?

  • Editor's Comment

    04-Feb-2009

    It’s been a fortnight of extremes. Hundreds and thousands of jobs go out the door at a variety of UK and global businesses, and elsewhereannouncements are made about the potential hiring of outrageous numbers of people.

  • Fresh Approach to Omani staffing

    04-Feb-2009

    Muscat: The Omani capital is the UK recruiter’s frist base in the Middle East

  • TAWD will stop job creation, says MP

    04-Feb-2009

    Djanogly: TAWD won’t help

  • Editor's Comment

    21-Jan-2009

  • New role and MBE for ex-REC chief Roberts

    21-Jan-2009

    Marcia Roberts: I’m healthy, I’m well and I’m just enjoying life

  • Ashworth launches IQequity venture

    14-Jan-2009

    Ashworth: private equity help

  • Editor's comment

    14-Jan-2009

    DeeDee Doke, Editor

  • Hays becomes an agile giant in Cook's vision

    14-Jan-2009

  • REC targets individuals

    14-Jan-2009

    Calling recruiters: Kevin Green aims to broaden REC’s appeal

  • UK Monster re-energised

    14-Jan-2009

    Acquari: set of new tools

  • Arrows Group launches European office

    Fri, 12 Dec 2008

    Arrows Group’s first operation on the European continent has its headquarters in Amsterdam, leading the way in Project Management, IT and Finance recruitment. The Amsterdam office is the hub of the European function that also services the French, German and Belgium markets in both permanent and contract staff.

  • Survey explores expat life

    Fri, 12 Dec 2008

    Canada is the most welcoming country to expatriates, expats living in Europe are most likely to learn the local language, and expats older than 55 reported finding marketedly fewer challenges settling in a new country than younger respondents — all were among the findings of the HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer Survey 08.

  • EMR and Ortus offers new model service in Middle East

    Fri, 12 Dec 2008

    Marketing recruiter EMR and sister HR recruiter Ortus are offering a new interim service to clients in the Middle East. Regional managing consultant Paul Haslam told Recruiter that the service, which takes into account the complexities of securing visas in the Middle East, has been well received by clients who are facing challenges as a result of headcount freezes. EMR’s Middle East operation is headquartered in Dubai.

  • Editor's comment

    10-Dec-2008

  • REC to put members at the centre

    10-Dec-2008

  • Expansion to give ATSCo a louder voice

    26-Nov-2008

    Reaching out beyond its tech borders, trade body ATSCo will undergo a makeover at the end of the year,emerging as APSCo. DeeDee Doke reports.