Thursday, 09 February 2012

Recruiter
12-Nov-2008

  • Anteo office

    Mon, 24 Nov 2008

    Anteo moves to a bigger location

  • Are KPIs useful to businesses?

    12-Nov-2008

    Key performance indicators (KPIs) force recruitment companies to sacrifice quality in a desperate bid to achieve financial targets. Having worked for two of the country’s largest high-street agencies, I have personal experience of how this approach invariably destroys good recruiting.I oversaw the London operation of the last agency I worked for. Senior management bullied us into believing that turnover would increase if we set strict targets for our consultants: 300 canvass ...

  • Baa-ing to the Nanny State of Europe

    12-Nov-2008

    With reference to your article ‘Working hours’, (recruiter.co.uk, 6 November), as grown adults we should all have the choice of how many hours we work each week. This is a wonderful example of Nanny Europe interfering with the way we all work.I passionately believe that we should have the right to choose and be able retain this choice. How many times have we all done a job that for short periods ...

  • Badenoch & Clark among recruiters to slash jobs

    12-Nov-2008

    Accountancy, finance, legal and public sector recruiter Badenoch & Clark is to cut its UK workforce by up to 8% due to the tough economic conditions.

  • Bakers back in court

    12-Nov-2008

    A trial date has been set for recruiter Timothy Baker who is accused of a £650,000 bank fraud.Baker, of Wolverhampton Road, Walsall, his wife Rachel, of Sunflower Mill, Walsall, and four other co-defendants will face trial on 30 March after being charged with money laundering and defrauding the Royal Bank of Scotland, allegedly with the help of fake invoices and a factoring agreement, between December ...

  • Ben Noteboom

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    Randstad’s Noteboom appointed to supervisory board of Ahold

  • Budget news

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    Recruiters broadly praise Alistair Darling’s cuts to business tax

  • Business finance

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    Recruiters welcome Chancellor’s plans to force banks to lend to stricken firms

  • Candidate databases

    Thu, 13 Nov 2008

    Candidate databases no longer recruiters’ greatest asset

  • Candidate feedback

    Wed, 19 Nov 2008

    IT Jobs in the City: Job board launches campaign to give candidates an opportunity to reveal what it is really like to work in City IT departments

  • Candidate shortage for Channel Islands

    12-Nov-2008

    The financial sector in the Channel Islands is yet to feel the full impact of the economic crisis, as long-term candidate shortages preserve placement numbers.Jenny Mitchell, director of Guernsey-based finance recruiter Situations Recruitment, told Recruiter the company continues to have problems sourcing good candidates.“We are feeling quite bullish [about the market]. The Channel ...

  • Catching candidates

    12-Nov-2008

    Websites are a bit like super-tankers,” says John Russell, marketing manager of recruitment consultancy Martin Ward Anderson (MWA), which specialises in finance professionals. “They take a little while to get going, you put a lot of resource into them and then they really start performing. The minute you stop putting resources in, your site will start to drop down the rankings, being replaced by those competitor ...

  • CBI conference

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    Calls on the government to give more help to businesses through the downturn

  • CBI survey

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    CBI: Recession to be ‘deeper and longer’ than first thought

  • Charity recruitment

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    Charity recruitment: Charity chief executives enjoy bumper salaries

  • Christmas should be used to motivate

    12-Nov-2008

    The article cancelling Christmas (recruiter.co.uk, ‘Christmas cancelled’, 28 October) highlights a rather introverted view which seems to be shared by a number of organisations. While financial prudence is a key ingredient during a recession, far-sighted employers can use Christmas events to motivate, thank and recognise outstanding performance in the current financial year, and, at the same time, use the event to drive home the need for greater company performance in the following ...

  • CMI survey

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    CMI survey: Mistrust and expenditure cuts fail to prevent workplace fraud

  • Counter-fraud forum

    Tue, 16 Dec 2008

    “Real Hustle” star launches recruitment counter-fraud forum

  • CV bloopers revisited

    12-Nov-2008

    In these tough days, it’s about time we were reminded again of the reasons some candidates get nowhere when they submit their CV. The latest batch comes courtesy of Resumania.com, a site that highlights real-life examples of how not to write a CV.Skills: “I have technical skills that will take your breath away.”Qualifications: “I have guts, drive, ambition and heart, which is probably more than a lot of the drones that ...

  • Dealmakers

    12-Nov-2008

    Ochre goes LocalDirectory firm, Thomson Local, has chosen recruitment outsourcing provider, Ochre House, to manage all its permanent recruitment over the next two years. Under the agreement, Ochre House will be responsible for sourcing around 300 hires per year, mainly into the company’s direct sales function.MBO for PA consultantPA recruitment and training consultant, Halliday Williams & Associates, ...

  • Debt insurance on the increase

    12-Nov-2008

    Recruiters are seeing clients go out of business “at a rate of knots not seen for 15 years”, according to John Lipton, director of recruitment credit insurance firm LDPA.Lipton, who leads LDPA, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s credit insurance partner, told Recruiter that the whole of the recruitment industry is suffering at the moment.He said: “The perm market is suffering worst of all and the contract side is starting to suffer. Failure ...

  • Diary dates 12th November 2008

    12-Nov-2008

  • Diary of... Dave Gill,branch manager, Newcastle/Glasgow,Hill McGlynn

    12-Nov-2008

    Dave Gill,branch manager, Newcastle/Glasgow,Hill McGlynnMondayThe day starts with a trek to the Glasgow office. Note to self: must remember to turn off the M8 as we’ve recently moved to our swanky new premises in the city centre. The team gathers for our weekly meeting in which managers update the entire team on what’s happening client-side. I spend time with a new recruit ...

  • Dream job

    Wed, 19 Nov 2008

    Most Brits are content with their working lives despite not getting their dream job

  • Drug testing times

    12-Nov-2008

    Results of a recently released US survey on substance abuse have revealed that most drug users and binge drinkers are employed in full- or part-time jobs — and US employers are worried.The ‘2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health’, released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, showed that more than 75% of the 17.4m drug users aged 18 and over were employed. Of the ...

  • Editor's comment

    12-Nov-2008

    Time is our most valuable asset, regardless of whether we’re operating in a buoyant season or in the middle of an economic downturn - people are very, very close second. The question, then, is how to best use one’s time for financial and competitive advantage. We asked US search consultant and trainer Michael J Ramer what the priority should be during times like these, and he said: “The premium today is on identifying, marketing and negotiating fees with companies which have open positions. ...

  • Employee expenses

    Mon, 24 Nov 2008

    Employees ramp up expense claims due to recession

  • EPCglobal brand to stay in MPS

    12-Nov-2008

    Technical recruiter EPCglobal will remain as a separate entity after being bought by US staffing giant MPS Global, regardless of any overlap in the sectors they operate in.Executive managing director of EPCglobal, David McIntyre, told Recruiter: “There will not be any merger; the MPS Global approach is to buy subsidiaries and try to invigorate and push those brands harder, rather than to gain benefits out of logistical cost cutting,” he said, adding that the overlap ...

  • Executive search

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    Different business leaders needed to cope with the recession

  • Experts advise on gaining competitive advantage

    12-Nov-2008

    How do some recruiters beat the economic hardship blues? Try this: to identify and source a dedicated and financially successful candidate, a recruiter stakes out a car park of a targeted company, and notes and runs a check on the registration number of any high-end BMW model that is parked there after hours.It’s a real-life example and one of the variations on ‘how to build a stand-out recruitment ...

  • Finance jobs

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    Royal Bank of Scotland admits job review but refuses to confirm job losses

  • Financial recruitment

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    Financial recruitment: City recruiter Verridian bucks the economic gloom with 25% profits

  • Financial recruitment

    Thu, 13 Nov 2008

    London financial hiring in fourth month of decline

  • Gap personnel

    Tue, 18 Nov 2008

    Gap personnel launches new hospitality arm

  • Global freeze on legal placements

    12-Nov-2008

    Global demand for lawyers has slowed dramatically in the past few weeks, according to legal recruiters.Naveen Tuli, managing director Laurence Simons, told Recruiter: “It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that permanent recruitment has fallen off a cliff.”Tuli said the US and Australia were particularly slow. Hong Kong and China “were not as busy as you might expect”. ...

  • Graduates flock to GradU8 fair

    12-Nov-2008

    GradU8, the virtual graduate recruitment fair organised by Totaljobs.com, attracted an average of 6,500 unique visitors per day in its first three days.Mike Fetters, graduate sales director at Totaljobs, told Recruiter that attendance was 50% up on what you would expect at a traditional bricks and mortar event and 2,500 job applications had already been made in the opening three days. “The seminars and corporate videos, which feature peer-to-peer content, are proving really ...

  • GRS appointment

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    Lucinda Brown promoted to UK managing director

  • GRS boss

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    GRS names new head of legal division

  • GRS survey

    Tue, 18 Nov 2008

    Risk bonus professionals’ salaries slump by 23%

  • Harvey Nash

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    Harvey Nash: Britain on verge of brain drain

  • Hays survey

    Tue, 18 Nov 2008

    Demand for HR professionals exceeds supply

  • Headhunter Appointed

    Wed, 17 Dec 2008

    Yahoo chooses Heidrick & Struggles for key appointment

  • Hirers & firers

    12-Nov-2008

  • Hospitality recruitment

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    Hospitality recruitment: Recruiters welcome £200m investment in the North-East

  • How to...retain business in a tough climate

    12-Nov-2008

    In today’s challenging economic conditions it’s more important than ever to retain your existing clientsThese are tough times for recruiters, with reports of a reluctance to recruit prevalent.

  • HR Network

    Tue, 18 Nov 2008

    HR viewed as a strategic resource in 2009, claim HR directors

  • ICS Survey

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    ICS: Eight in 10 Brits plan to spend less this Christmas

  • IES appointment

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Duncan Brown appointed director of HR business development at Institute for Employment Studies

  • Intelligence service takes jobseekers on virtual tour

    12-Nov-2008

    The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has designed a virtual tour for its website to better inform potential candidates about life in the service.It has been put together by recruitment marketing and communications company TCS, which has been working with SIS for over a year. The nature of the SIS makes it difficult for it to meet with potential jobseekers by conventional means, so the aim has been ...

  • Interim recruitment

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    Interim recruitment: interim managers are feeling the impact of the downturn

  • INTERNATIONAL

    12-Nov-2008

  • IRS Consulting

    Mon, 24 Nov 2008

    IRS Consulting launches sports division

  • IT recruitment

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    IT recruitment: The number of female IT professionals has fallen 6% since 2001

  • Job cuts

    Wed, 19 Nov 2008

    More job cuts announced

  • Job cuts

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    Financial sector hit by Fidelity job cuts

  • Jobs market

    Thu, 13 Nov 2008

    The UK needs flexible jobs market to survive

  • Jobsite campaign

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Television campaign hailed a success by Jobsite

  • Legal

    12-Nov-2008

    Recruiters are recoiling after seeing the property law market being decimated and only a few niche sectors avoiding a drop in placements

  • LGA survey

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    LGA: London could bear brunt of recession

  • Licence revoked

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    GLA revokes licence after worker safety concerns

  • Local talent key in gulf growth

    12-Nov-2008

    The Gulf states seem to have come of age. Whereas expats commonly filled many of the professional Middle Eastern roles until recently, now the demand is for qualified local talent. DeeDee Doke went out to the Gulf and found out about the situation first-hand.When talk turns to the surfeit of jobs available in the Middle East, the assumption is that the roles in question will be filled by Western ...

  • Malaise starts to spread

    12-Nov-2008

    With the Q3 results season now coming to an end, it is clear that trading has been every bit as poor as expected. Michael Page flagged that conditions became progressively more challenging during the quarter as weakness in the banking sector spread. Hays’ net fee growth slumped from 16% in April-June to 4% in July-September. Turnover declines at Randstad deteriorated from ...

  • Market values

    12-Nov-2008

    Billions have been wiped off the market value of the listed recruitment agencies, as shares tumble in the wake of negative news and poor market perception.Even as some recruiters return positive results, market sentiment has led to a fall in market value with the 14 companies analysed between 30 November 2007 and 31 October 2008 (right) dropping by more than £2bn.Albert Ellis, chief executive of IT, executive and financial recruiter Harvey Nash, told Recruiter ...

  • Migrant workers

    Wed, 12 Nov 2008

    Number of jobs for non-EU migrants to be cut

  • Migrant workers

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    CIPD: Decline in EU migrant workers is good and bad news for British jobseekers

  • Mobile recruitment

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    Mobile devices the next big thing in recruitment

  • Monster modifications

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    Monster reveals new website enhancements

  • Nursing shortage serious

    12-Nov-2008

    A massive shortage of nursing staff is causing difficulties for recruiters.Jan Baum, general manager of Allied Healthcare Group, and chair of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation nursing sector, told Recruiter that demand for nursing staff had soared in the past four months.The problem was most acute in London, said Baum, with demand running at four times the ability ...

  • Online recruitment

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    Online recruitment: Fraud spurs Scotland Yard Investigation

  • Opening time

    12-Nov-2008

    Thorn Baker’s London connectionMansfield-based construction recruiter Thorn Baker has opened an office in London. The new office will specialise in the recruitment of temporary labour for the construction industry. It will service the needs of clients primarily inside the M25, including supplying labour to work on construction projects linked to the London 2012 Olympics.Green RolesNiche job boards specialist ...

  • People Moves 12th November 2008

    12-Nov-2008

    Executive, graduate and interim recruiter FreshMinds Talent has promoted James Callander to the position of managing director, from head of innovation and deputy managing director.

  • Plimsoll report

    Tue, 18 Nov 2008

    Recruiters could increase profits on 30% less sales

  • Pre-Budget Report

    Wed, 10 Dec 2008

    Government urged to retain VAT umbrella company rules

  • Prime People

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Prime People releases interim results

  • QPS Group

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    QPS acquires Irish financial recruiter SSC

  • QPS on track for growth as Gerstein hits back at critics

    12-Nov-2008

    The chief executive of QPS Group, the company which acquired failed IT, legal and banking recruiter Greatfleet in July this year, has told Recruiter that the resurrected company is already in profit and on course for future expansion.Colin Gerstein said that profits at QPS were already “in six figures” for the first quarter.He said that revenues were on track for e10m (£8m) in the first year. However, this is set to increase later this month after it ...

  • Randstad deal

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    Randstad acquires a 10% stake in Japanese recruiter FujiStaff

  • REC Expulsion

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    The REC expels member after the agency had its licence revoked by the GLA

  • 'Recession-moves' not always simple

    12-Nov-2008

    Recruiters are concerned about the growing number of candidates entering so called “rewarding” sectors for the wrong reasons.Following the collapse of major financial institutions and the number of unemployed people growing by the day, John Dunn, director at Arete, Verb Group’s senior placement arm, told Recruiter he had witnessed a 20% increase in teaching registrations over the last three ...

  • Recruiter buy-out

    Thu, 13 Nov 2008

    RBS backs MBO of Kinetic Technical

  • Recruiter forum

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Beating the downturn

  • Recruiters and politics

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    FPR meets shadow minister

  • Reed Appointment

    Mon, 24 Nov 2008

    George Peacock is national employer services manager for Reed in Partnership

  • Retail recruitment

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    Retail recruitment: Proposed Woolworths sale sign of troubling times for retail recruiters

  • Retail recruitment

    Wed, 12 Nov 2008

    Retail recruitment: Falling consumer confidence to hit retail recruitment

  • Retail recruitment

    Mon, 17 Nov 2008

    Retail recruitment: Recruiters bullish on Central London despite sales slump

  • ReThink Recruitment

    Tue, 2 Dec 2008

    IT recruitment: ReThink expands into HR and finance staffing

  • Right funds needed to work in UK

    12-Nov-2008

    As the 27 November deadline for the introduction of Tier 2 and Tier 5 of the new points-based immigration system approaches, recruiters need to check that candidates have sufficient funds, an immigration lawyer has warned.Jennifer Lambe, a senior associate at Mishcon de Reya, told Recruiter that candidates with insufficient funds risked having their visas refused. “This would leave clients unhappy as someone who they thought was starting work would be unable to ...

  • Rise Group

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    Rise Group unifies Glasgow operations under one roof

  • Rising out of the carnage

    12-Nov-2008

    Colin CottellAfter the carnage in October, it’s been a better couple of weeks for recruitment industry shares, with 11 of the companies in our table seeing rises.Stock markets always discount the future, so perhaps even as the real economy suffers, investors are already looking ahead and spotting the first faint green shoots of recovery. Of course, it’s early days, and no doubt there will be many twists and turns ahead for investors.

  • Safer recruitment

    Tue, 18 Nov 2008

    UK recruitment industry hits back at crime

  • Secretarial recruitment

    Wed, 12 Nov 2008

    Demand for secretarial skills declines

  • Shine Recruitment

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Shine Recruitment signs for Bradford City Football Club

  • Soho Runners

    Mon, 24 Nov 2008

    Soho Runners opens its doors

  • Soundbites

    12-Nov-2008

    David Priestley Director, Source People“We are looking forward very much to developing our business in the US over the coming years and expect with the new administration that the oil and gas industry will continue to flourish — which can only have a positive impact for Source People. We would hope for necessary action to be taken to stimulate economic growth and for international ...

  • Stamford Consulting Group,...

    12-Nov-2008

  • Talent shortage

    Wed, 12 Nov 2008

    Talent shortage predicted to be worse than ever

  • Taleo deal

    Tue, 25 Nov 2008

    Taleo partners Thomas International for talent management solution

  • Telecoms jobs

    Fri, 14 Nov 2008

    BT announces plans to cut 10,000 jobs

  • The benefits of an overarching contract

    12-Nov-2008

    Some employment agencies that have been engaging their temps directly as employees have put in place overarching contracts of employment to ensure that such contracts are legal. So what are the benefits of these types of contract?Traditionally, when engaging temporary workers to place with end-user clients, employment agencies have preferred to use a model whereby the temporary worker is engaged ...

  • The name's Craig... Kirsty Craig

    12-Nov-2008

    Staff from one of the North West’s commercial recruitment agencies, The Business Connection (TBC), celebrated its 20th anniversary in serious style by helping to host the North-West premiere of the latest Bond film, Quantum of Solace.The team was privy to the first screening outside London and was later whisked away in Aston Martins for champagne and martini cocktails at the official after-show ...

  • Throwing a lifeline to recruiters

    12-Nov-2008

    Increasing numbers of redundancies, vacancies plummeting at a record pace and the prospect of global recession is enough to make even the most hardened recruitment stalwart wince. But as Recruiterfound out from the survivors of recessions over the past three decades, the recruitment industry is not quite ready to throw in the towel.It may look bleak on the surface. Analysts and trade unions ...

  • T-Mobile survey

    Thu, 20 Nov 2008

    Small business look to flexible working to cut costs

  • Trafficking operation

    Wed, 19 Nov 2008

    Major human trafficking operation uncovered

  • Travel recruitment

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Travel recruitment: Travel firms already exploit Web 2.0

  • Travel recruitment

    Wed, 10 Dec 2008

    Travel recruiters claim TUI Travel’s cut to winter capacity is a sign of troubling times ahead

  • Travel recruitment

    Thu, 13 Nov 2008

    BA’s profit warning worries travel recruiters

  • UK top of Euro temp leader board

    12-Nov-2008

    The UK has the highest penetration of agency workers within its workforce, compared to 18 other European countries, according to research compiled by the European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (Eurociett).In 2006, the most recent year for which compiled data is available, 4.5% of the UK’s active workforce consisted of agency workers, an increase of 6.4% over the 10 years between 1996 ...

  • Unemployment figures

    Wed, 12 Nov 2008

    Unemployment reaches 11-year high

  • US aggregator Simply Hired launches in the UK

    12-Nov-2008

    US-based jobs search engine Simply Hired has launched into the UK and three other international markets: Canada, Australia and India.Designed as a one-stop shop for jobseekers, the UK site already features more than 700,000 jobs, aggregated from leading job boards, newspaper and publisher sites, and company career pages.Gautam Godhwani, Simply Hired’s chief executive, told Recruiter ...

  • Watson Wyatt

    Fri, 21 Nov 2008

    Watson Wyatt: Poor pay forces recession-experienced staff into early retirement

  • Web Chat

    12-Nov-2008

    How dare the EU tell us what hours to workMEPs are on their own ‘gold-plated’ gravy train which the rest of us can only gasp at (and have to pay) — yet they deign to tell the less fortunate of us how long (and therefore, how much) we can earn (recruiter.co.uk, ‘Working hours’, 6 November). How dare they!Rate cut more like a final throw of the diceA 1.5% cut in interest rates will be a shot in the arm for the UK ...

  • Workplace diversity

    Wed, 12 Nov 2008

    Don’t dismiss diversity due to downturn, lawyer warns

  • Young is the one to move on matrix

    12-Nov-2008

    Even for someone who began their career at sea, life as a managed service provider can be a bit rough. But Julian Young is steering the good ship Matrix in the right direction. Colin Cottell met up with him.