Recruiter
28-October-2009
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Adecco's spending spree
28-October-2009
Adecco’s agreed acquisition of professional staffing company MPS Group signals the end of the company’s ‘big’ acquisition phase.
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Agencies deliver 'robust' service to Royal Mail
28-October-2009
Recruiters insist they continue to be committed to carrying out necessary background checks on the agency workers they supply to the Royal Mail, following allegations in the Daily Mail that temporary workers were being hired on the minimum wage, while some have criminal records and were given only ‘cursory’ interviews.
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Agencies need to rethink their models and values to clients
28-October-2009
Staffing agencies can no longer rely on finding candidates as the basis of their business model, according to the international talent acquistion director at global engineering services company CH2M Hill.
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Aiming to get a ghoul in one (night)
28-October-2009
Flexible working jobsite Remote Employment has begun a national job search for witches and wizards across the UK
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Blair urges industry to put Women 1st
28-October-2009
Despite 59% of workers in the hospitality, leisure, tourism and travel (HLTT) industry being female, just 6% of hospitality company directors are women, compared with an average across all industries of 12%.
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Bored of the boards
28-October-2009
A plea to job boards: We want service not sales… please!
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City comment
28-October-2009
Kean Marden, ABN AMRO
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CRBs' late delivery
28-October-2009
A national postal strike will delay placements due to a slowdown in the processing of Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks, according to health and social care recruiters last week.
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David Mason
28-October-2009
Colin Cottell interviews the international talent acquisition director of global engineering consultancy CH2M Hill
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De Ferranti is wealth of talent for Execuzen
28-October-2009
The cross-leveraging opportunity that an international private wealth division offers will greatly complement and strengthen Execuzen’s existing global offering within the financial services arena
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Does the one who pays the piper really call the tune?
28-October-2009
With introduction fees often being the crux of recruitment, Colin Cottell looks into the disputes and problems with who actually owns a candidate’s CV
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Door still ajar for shaping final AWD
28-October-2009
With the final agency workers’ legislation not due to come into effect until October 2011, Colin Cottell discovered there may still be an opportunity for recruiters to influence the final shape of the directive
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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.
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European staffing industry will benefit from introduction of AWD
28-October-2009
The Agency Workers Directive “will be a boon to the staffing industry in Continental Europe”, according to the general manager Europe of Staffing Industry Analysts, a research company.
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Every Xmas job helps
28-October-2009
Tesco is launching a new recruitment scheme to put its staff’s unemployed family and friends in temporary Christmas jobs.
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Ex-recruiter is brains behind new application for Twitter job searches
28-October-2009
A former recruiter is launching a service that manages the candidate’s jobseeking process on Twitter and ensures they only receive Tweets about relevant jobs.
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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.
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Interactive plays the game
28-October-2009
Hunting down a top niche candidate in a young and developing industry was the task Monumental Games set for recruiter Interactive Selection
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International news Japan
28-October-2009
The global economic downturn has been strongly felt in Japan, with high profile internationalconsultancies closing and exiting the market.
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Kelly settles on $11m
28-October-2009
Kelly Services has agreed to pay $11m (£6.3m) to settle a class action lawsuit in the US that accuses the company of failing to pay temporary workers their vacation pay. The class action was launched on behalf of 96,000 temporary workers in non clerical and non professional positions that Kelly assigned to clients throughout Illinois between 2002 and 2008, according to a report by Staffing Industry Analysts. Kelly Services did not admit any wrongdoing. “There was no admission on our ...
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Maven looks to employees for growth
28-October-2009
The founder director of Michael Page’s executive search practice in London, who has been appointed managing partner at Maven Partners, says the company is hoping to establish a long-term brand that will include opportunities for employee ownership.
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Mobile site sees digital recruiter Ecom snatching a march on its competition
28-October-2009
Specialist digital recruitment agency Ecom has launched a fully optimised mobile site, which it claims will be a first for its sector.
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One size doesn't necessarily fit all
28-October-2009
In public sector recruitment, maximising ‘value’ in interim management resourcing is essential
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Rebuilding the myth of self-employment
28-October-2009
It seems the construction industry is unanimous in voicing its concerns over the proposals of a consultative document. Scott Beagrie investigates
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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.
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Recruiters' salary cuts
28-October-2009
Clients are more cautious in hiring and this has led to an adjustment in the basic salaries on offer to recruiters, according to the latest Heywood Associates Recruitment Salary Survey.
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Recruitment shake-up
28-October-2009
At last someone from a recruitment background comes out and says what a lot of people have been saying for a long time but the recruitment agency sector has failed to take notice of (Recruiter, Bloggers with Bite, 14 October). Roger [Philby] is spot on and I speak as someone who has worked on both sides of the fence.
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Recruitment's future survey
28-October-2009
Most in-house recruiters expect increased pressure to recruit absolutely the right person for the job when they resume hiring, according to respondents to Recruiter’s recent ‘The Future of Recruitment’ survey.
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Retail
28-October-2009
Christmas trading will be crucial for the sector to get an idea of whether the recovery is transient or the start of an upward trend
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Salaries down but consultants not out
28-October-2009
Despite the large falls in revenue and bonuses since the start of the recession, executive search still remains a financially lucrative sector
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Self-employed restrictions
28-October-2009
Regarding ‘Australia changes visa rules to address skills shortage’ (20 October), when you use the phrase ‘labour shortage’ or ‘skills shortage’, you’re speaking in a sentence fragment. The intellectually honest statement is: ‘There is a labour shortage at the salary level I’m willing to pay.
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Shouldn’t we stick to
28-October-2009
I really enjoyed Roger Philby’s recent comment piece (Recruiter, Bloggers with Bite, 14 October) and it has set me to thinking on a range of issues.
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soundbites
28-October-2009
“How do you envisage the role of the database in the future? Will it still be an important tool for recruiting or do you see its relevance diminishing?”
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Trends: Changing your approach to recruiting
28-October-2009
David MainsDirector of Enigma People Solutions Not all recruitment sectors are affected equally during a recession — and recruiters have to adapt to that situation
