Recruiter
20-January-2010
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2010: The year of the killer apps and smarter use of channels
20-January-2010
Social media will continue to be a major theme for 2010 but both recruiters and in-house resourcing professionals need to get smarter in how they use these new channels.
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50 recruitment firms growing up fast
20-January-2010
Colin Cottell dissects Recruiter’s and Catalyst Corporate Finance’s league of the fastest growing privately held recruitment firms and highlights what other businesses can learn from these companies
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Administration tide still not gone out
20-January-2010
The number of recruiters going into administration in the last six months increased 27% on the same period in 2008. Christopher Goodfellow reports
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Albany apologises to contractors and agencies after funding pulled
20-January-2010
Neutral vendor and workforce management company the Albany Group has apologised for any inconvenience or financial hardship to staffing companies and contractors after admitting that a £3m factoring facility for three of its UK companies has been withdrawn.
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Bond Talent's new Habitat
20-January-2010
When Habitat decided it was time to move its recruitment processes to an electronic system, Bond International offered up its talent
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Chattering and collaborating in the cloud
20-January-2010
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City Comment
20-January-2010
Kean Marden, ABN AMRO
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Develop the obvious
20-January-2010
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EAS warns recruiters
20-January-2010
Thirty-eight teaching and childcare recruiters have been hit with warnings from the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) inspectorate for failing to comply with the law. Eleven agencies were found to be not following correct processes when carrying out identity and qualification checks on people they planned to supply for work. The EAS made sure the agencies changed the way they carried out the checks. As part of Operation Hazard, EAS inspectors visited 50 agencies in towns and cities ...
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Editor's Comment
20-January-2010
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Facebook graduates
20-January-2010
Almost all students now have a Facebook profile, according to new research from graduate recruitment website Milkround.com. The survey found that 92% of those polled had a Facebook account, compared with 43% that use MySpace, 38% using Twitter and 25% Bebo and 17% LinkedIn. The survey also shows that 78% only use their profiles for social networking, while 18% say they use their profiles for both job hunting and socialising.
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Forget the style, give us substance
20-January-2010
There is far more to getting ahead in recruitment than heeding advice on dressing for success
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Forum focuses on emerging stronger
20-January-2010
‘How to emerge from the recession a stronger brand and push your business forward with confidence’ is the theme of Recruiter’s 4th Annual Forum on 23 March in London, sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Good time for new start, says Woods Ballard
20-January-2010
The former finance director of Morgan Hunt who launched Day Webster in December says now is the perfect time to set up a recruitment business.
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Hays case dropped
20-January-2010
Three workers who alleged that they were subjected to racial discrimination while working for Hays have dropped their claims “without any money being paid to them”, according to a company statement. Kevin Snagg of Twickenham, Middlesex, Chiuta Dube of Stratford, East London, and Ray Burkoh of Morden, Surrey, all alleged they had been victims of racism while working for Hays at its New Malden office. However, the trio has now dropped the claims. A statement from the company said: “Hays ...
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HBHC on the look out to expand recruiter portfolio
20-January-2010
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Healthcare still appealing to investors
20-January-2010
Despite fears over public spending cuts, the healthcare sector remains attractive to investors, according to business sales consultancy LBA.
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International markets key in growth of Fast 50 recruiters
20-January-2010
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International News - Russia
20-January-2010
Tremayne Elson
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It's been snow joke
20-January-2010
Half of British workers surveyed by online courier matchmaking service www.Boxby.co.uk have exploited the recent cold snap to skive off work. The survey of 1,029 people found that 49% of respondents used the snow as an excuse to have time off, citing issues such as problems with transport when they could in fact have made it in to work. Over a third (36%) said they had taken more than one day off last week using transport issues as an excuse when they could have otherwise travelled ...
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Loving his work and life
20-January-2010
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NHS contract awards
20-January-2010
Since the beginning of the year, a number of recruiters have been awarded places on the Buying Solutions framework agreement to provide recruitment services to the NHS. These include: healthcare recruiter Meridian Health, IT staffing firm Concept IT, multi-sector recruiter Incite Solutions (ISL), accountancy, HR and procurement recruiter Volante Hobbs, multi-sector recruiter Specialist Recruitment Services, healthcare recruiter Nursing Solutions, multi-sector staffing firm Central Employment ...
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Premier people in India
20-January-2010
Campus auditions, recruitment fairs, talent spotter cards, newspaper and billboard advertising, as well as its own intranet, are just some of the ways hotel chain Premier Inn has recruited staff for its new hotel in Bangalore, India.
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Profile - John Rose
20-January-2010
Colin Cottell interviews the chief executive of FiveTen Group
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REC: no involvement in OFT bid rigging discussions
20-January-2010
I am writing to correct any possible misunderstandings from your recent article (Recruiter, 9 December 2009) on the OFT investigation into bid rigging in the construction sector.The piece included a couple of references to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), but it is important to once again make it clear that the REC had no involvement in the discussions where the breaches of competition rules occurred. This was explicitly acknowledged in the final ...
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Recruits rush to join up on Lincolnshire Police's beat
20-January-2010
A recruitment drive by Lincolnshire Police to fill an estimated 150 vacancies over the next 12 to 18 months led to more than 2,000 requests for application forms - in just two hours after its launch.
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Resolutions to grow businesses in 2010
20-January-2010
What should recruiters be doing this year to regain their market position, when performance was significantly below par in 2009?
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Richardson ensures Torus retains talent
20-January-2010
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Scottish SMEs miss out
20-January-2010
The number of learning and skills development agencies in Scotland is creating an unworkable funding maze, meaning many of the country’s SMEs are missing out on crucial finance for training that could help them through the recession.Although Scottish firms are increasingly turning to training to come out the recession stronger than before, business managers are more confused than ever about what support is available to them. And this is despite the Scottish government creating ...
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Skills development
20-January-2010
Research by specialist graduate recruiter elemense found that if graduates decided to use their own money to invest in personal development their top priorities would be:
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Social networking guide
20-January-2010
In response to your story ‘Employers screen using social networking sites’ (recruiter.co.uk, 14 January), we recognised this trend last year and produced a guide to help candidates manage their online reputation.What a lot of candidates forget is that a wayward comment here or a dodgy picture there can have severe ramifications for their career prospects.You can download our guide by following the link http://www.modisintl.com/recruitment-guides/Raymond Murray, ...
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Soundbites
20-January-2010
What are your business resolutions for 2010?
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Talking the new recruitment talk
20-January-2010
Jim Albert, Managing director of IT and engineering specialist Modis International. Having set up a ‘New language of recruitment’, the firm has noticed a change in clients’ perception of Modis
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Travel & Tourism
20-January-2010
Recruiters in the sector are cautiously optimistic on their fortunes for the coming year, with confidence improving and temps back in demand
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Web Comment
20-January-2010
IIn response to ‘It’s not all our fault’ (Recruiter, Bloggers with Bite, 9 December 2009)Well said, Roger - I can also be blunt: there are some very poor hiring decisions being made. There is a percentage of managers who panic and need staff immediately; there are also those managers who really don’t know what type of person they need. Yes, it really is not all the recruiter’s fault. The recession is clearing out the poor recruiters. The stigma of the cowboys is ...
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Web Comment
20-January-2010
