Recruiter
29-Oct-2008
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WHO'S FIRING
29-Oct-2008
l Internet company Yahoo announced plans to slash 1,500 jobs after its net income dropped 64% to $54m (£31.6m) compared with this time last year.
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Adecco Results
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
UK and Ireland performs poorly
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Age discrimination
Thu, 30 Oct 2008
Only one in 10 mature workers have never experienced age discrimination
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Army recruitment
Mon, 3 Nov 2008
Army recruitment jumps as popularity of forces soars
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ATSCo seminar
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Motivational speaker Humphrey Walters inspires recruiters
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Business failures
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Business failures increase by 28% in last quarter
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Career service
Thu, 30 Oct 2008
AACS to bridge gap between employers and disabled people
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CareerBuilder's BrightFuse builds
29-Oct-2008
CareerBuilder’s social network BrightFuse is gaining momentum in both the US and UK, and is being used by recruiters to tap into talent on both sides of the pond.Although still in beta/alpha stage (early development), it has 75,000 members and Liz Harvey, CareerBuilder’s consumer products director, told Recruiter that while the initial focus was the US, due to demand BrightFuse has expanded ...
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Charity recruitment
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
Charity vacancies rise despite downturn
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Conkers deal
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
Conkers.net integrated into Broadbean operations
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Conkers in doubt as Broadbean gobbled up
29-Oct-2008
The acquisition of multiple job posting and applicant tracking site Broadbean Technology by media giant Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND) has left the long-term future of Conkers — AND’s equivalent site — unclear.Sources close to the deal suggest that Conkers may be wound down once Broadbean is fully integrated into its new parent company.However, Dan Martin, AND business development director, told Recruiter that it would be “business as usual” for ...
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Cook is Hays' new UK boss
29-Oct-2008
Tim Cook has been appointed as managing director of Hays UK and Ireland, after joining the company aged 18 and spending 21 years’ climbing its ranks.Cook, who was managing director of Hays’ property and construction business, told Recruiter: “My immediate task now is of course to ensure that we are in the best possible shape to face the current economic situation. I will focus on the quality of management of the operating businesses throughout the UK.”
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Customer service
Wed, 5 Nov 2008
Good customer service key to employee satisfaction
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Dealmakers
29-Oct-2008
Monster in cable TV dealMonster is teaming up with cable TV company Comcast to offer recruitment services on demand. The service, to be launched next month, will include exclusive job listings on Comcast’s Searchlight ad-supported VOD platform. The Monster-branded On Demand channel will offer listings that drive viewers to a co-branded website www.Monsterondemand.comwhere they can connect with featured companies and submit CVs.Buy-out ...
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Diary dates 29th November 2008
29-Oct-2008
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Diary of... Sarah Drew, general manager, TheLadders.co.uk
29-Oct-2008
Sarah Drew, general manager, TheLadders.co.ukMondayMy bus starts at the highest point in London and heads downhill - that’s not how my week will go, just topography! I normally get to the office by 9.30am and will pop next door to the café to pick up some breakfast and a large tea. Caffeine is important on a Monday. We have a company-wide meeting ...
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Director handbook
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
Directors’ Toolkit gives advice on corporate governance
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Driving recruitment
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Driving & logistics recruitment: Cutting costs and consultation key to surviving recession
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Economic prospects
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Recruitment at ‘virtual standstill’ new survey claims
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Editor's comment
29-Oct-2008
Even a small recruitment company can operate across international borders today. Doing so might not be the best choice for every company, small or large, but ambitious recruiters owe it to themselves and their business to fully explore their options.
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Employers try DIY route
29-Oct-2008
Recruitment agencies in Northern Ireland are seeing a big increase in firms advertising jobs online.Reggie Patel, managing director of multi-sector recruiter Kennedy Recruitment, said: “Employers are doing most of their job advertising themselves, using online methods.”And Sara McKinty, managing director of financial recruiter Sellick Partnership, told Recruiter clients were tightening budgets and exploring new avenues.The Monster Employment ...
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Estate agents
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Estate agent recruitment: Housing market collapse having ‘severe’ effect on estate agent positions
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Executive moves
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Kevin Mahoney steps down at Impellam
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Financial jobs
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Financial sector braces itself for new job cuts into 2009
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Financial recruitment
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Financial recruitment: Oxford Economics predicts 194,000 job cuts in London
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Financial recruitment
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Financial recruitment: Ardent launches new financial services division
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Freelancer recruitment
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
PCG urges government to scrap punitive tax measures as confidence declines
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Gangmaster licence
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
Gangmaster’s licence revoked for blatant refusal to pay workers correctly
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Gangmaster licence
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Preston gangmaster loses licence
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Get ready for a tough 2009
29-Oct-2008
After months of this column predicting a possible recession, it appears we are now at the beginning of a recessionary period that is likely to last until at least early 2010.Unfortunately the stock market is now worrying that the recession could be much deeper and last much longer. Hence the market’s rather muted response to the government’s bail-out of the banking system. I think ‘better late than ...
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Getting to know Madison
29-Oct-2008
Madison Who’s Who, a directory of professionals and executives from around the world and across industries, has just announced that it will be releasing a social networking platform for members shortly.Matt Schwartz, chief executive of Madison’s Who’s Who, said it has been looking at ways to further facilitate members’ networking capabilities and to enhance their job searches and joint ventures. It is appealing to executives and hiring managers who are looking for new talent ...
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Glasgow event
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Recruiter goes to Glasgow
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Government investigation
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
Corby recruiters receive government warnings
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GRS Group
Mon, 3 Nov 2008
GRS Group launches new risk consultancy
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Hard times hit home
29-Oct-2008
Until this summer, the recruitment industry had escaped relatively unscathed from the escalating financial crisis.Thanks to the carnage of the past two months, however, all that has changed. Growing client caution is now causing lengthier placement times, affecting recruiters in a variety of ways.Gino Fasciani, operations director of executive recruiter Buchanan Scott, told Recruiter there was no doubt it had already effected the business.“Depending ...
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Heat is on in the kitchen as fight for talent grows
29-Oct-2008
The war for talent in the hospitality sector is intensifying due to the spiralling cost of living in the UK, according to recruiters.Mark Norris, chief executive at hospitality recruiter Profile, told Recruiter the sector was suffering from the dual effect of candidates in the UK being reluctant to change jobs due to concerns on the economy, and international candidates being put off relocating ...
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Help for disadvantaged
29-Oct-2008
Cities where the American Staffing Association (ASA) holds its annual conventions will benefit from the expertise of US recruiters and their suppliers under an initiative launched this year by the trade body.Jobseekers in San Diego were the first such beneficiaries of the ASA’s new agenda for corporate social responsibility (CSR), which saw 40 ASA members and staffing industry suppliers volunteer their time to offer coaching on CVs and interview skills.In this ...
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Hospitality recruitment
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
Hospitality recruitment: Increased competition among restaurants to boost hospitality jobs
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How do i make a good acquisition?
29-Oct-2008
Times may be hard, but companies still need to make acquisitions - and it’s more important than ever to follow the golden rules
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How to... beat the lobster pot approch
29-Oct-2008
In the current climate, recruiters cannot rely on good candidates just turning up - they need to actively seek them out
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HR recruitment
Thu, 30 Oct 2008
HR recruitment: Annapurna HR to begin trading with aim of raising CSR profile
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HR recruitment
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
HR recruitment: Value of senior resourcing professionals high
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Industry benchmarking
29-Oct-2008
With all eyes focused on the stock market and the performance of financial institutions, how are recruiters faring in these difficult times?Looking at year-on-year billings gives a mixed, but not surprising view, according to BDO Stoy Hayward’s review of the latest data outputs from Recruitment Industry Benchmarking (RIB).Permanent billings show a big decline in perfmormanceRecruitment companies have often been cited as one of the ...
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It recruiters are stars of show
29-Oct-2008
A ‘super group’ of elite recruiters has evolved in the highly-competitive IT sector.This year’s Recruiter Hot 100, which rates companies by gross profit per employee, includes more IT specialists than any other sector, with 20 companies making the cut (Recruiter 15 October).So why have the IT specialists outperformed their peers? What makes them so special?The answer ...
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IT recruitment
Thu, 30 Oct 2008
Contract vacancies decline in IT sector
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IT recruitment
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
IT recruitment: Xcede Recruitment launches new SEO division
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Just how bad will it get?
29-Oct-2008
It’s now clear that the people who predicted that the UK economy would go bad were right. It will get bad.But until Lehman Brothers went belly-up it hadn’t permeated into sectors beyond the financial markets. Now it will do.Nevertheless, as an international player, we are still hoping that those BRIC economies — Brazil Russia, India, and China as well as Poland, the rest of Central Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa — will stop it from becoming a severe ...
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Leading a candidate to water
29-Oct-2008
Ever felt a tad unsure of the somewhat inflated claims of a senior management candidate regarding their particular skills-set? And most recruiters, at some point, must have been dubious of many a senior manager’s leadership style. One suggestion you might like to try in order to discover their actual capabilities is to get the candidate to take you for a drive to meet a horse.Now let’s not ...
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Man with a mission
29-Oct-2008
Roger Philby is a man who wants to change the face of recruitment. Colin Cottell talks to him about his drive for greater professionalism
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Management buy-out
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Halliday Williams & Associates in management buy-out
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Manchester scraps Manpower deal
29-Oct-2008
Manchester City Council has reached a mutual agreement with Manpower to terminate early its managed service provider agreement to staff the local authority.Krissie Davies, Manpower operations director, said in a statement the recruiter would move away from its master vendor relationship with Manchester City Council, and the council would take its recruitment service in-house, with Manpower’s “full ...
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Manufacturing output
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
Manufacturing declines for sixth consecutive month
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Matrix aims to take hard work out of supply chain
29-Oct-2008
Recruiters may lose out in the short term with lower margins by working through vendor-managed service companies, but Matrix SCM insists on screening suppliers on quality over price, which is increasingly attracting agencies’ interest.Julian Young, chief executive of Matrix, said his firm screened recruiters in favour of quality (70%) over price (30%), rather than size and reputation.“Everyone ...
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Media
29-Oct-2008
Recruitment in the media industry remains strong, although recruiters fear falling advertising revenues could cause head count cuts.Paul Farrer, chairman of media sales and creative recruiter pfj, told Recruiter: “There isn’t a glut of candidates yet. I think all the doom and gloom is true, but as yet there hasn’t been wholesale redundancies [in the media sector],” adding pfj has seen very little change in the number of placements it is making year-on-year.
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Microsoft appointment
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
Sarah Fisher is Microsoft’s new HR director
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Migrant workers
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Migrant workers are taking roles without them being advertised in the UK, research claims
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Migrant workers
Mon, 3 Nov 2008
SMEs faced with migrant talent gap
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Migrant workers
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
One million migrants expected to leave UK
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New online recruiting platform
29-Oct-2008
Monster has joined forces with integrated front-office software solution provider Bullhorn to launch a new online recruiting platform.The new end-to-end recruiting tool called PowerSource is intended to help recruitment consultants source and place candidates more quickly.Launched at the annual ASA convention, PowerSource will offer real-time job posting and allow recruiters to search ...
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Not the time to start cranking up cold calls
29-Oct-2008
These are unprecedented times in recruitment. Judging by the number of CVs received in the past few weeks from consultants who are the victims of cost reduction in line with revenue, logic would say that clients should be receiving fewer calls. Not so, according to our clients.The last thing that most clients want to do at the moment is take a call from recruitment consultants asking about their recruitment process or if they need any staff. However, in the current tight ...
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Nuns on recruitment run
29-Oct-2008
Fed up with the seemingly ever-present doom and gloom of the economy?
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Obituary: Medical and General founder dies at 79
29-Oct-2008
Juliette Menghuis, co-founder of the former Medical and General Employment Agency in London’s Paddington Street, has died at the age of 79.Miss Menghuis, as she was known professionally, set up the agency in 1954 with her late business partner, Ruth Meyer.Medical and General dealt with nurses and medical secretarial staff, and was the first agency to have pharmacy and optometry sections.A member of the executive of the Federation of Recruitment and ...
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Ochre House
Mon, 3 Nov 2008
Ochre House agrees recruitment outsourcing deal with Thomson Local
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Office opening
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Reed opens new Worcester office
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OFT launches price-fixing probe
29-Oct-2008
Recruiters must not be tempted into collective agreements over setting prices, warned a senior employment lawyer, after an investigation was launched into alleged breaches of competition law by eight recruitment agencies.
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Online recruitment
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Reed.co.uk sees 200% rise in conversion rates
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Opening time
29-Oct-2008
The Liverpool ConnectionChester-based office, contact centre and management recruiter The Business Connection is opening its first Liverpool branch and has plans to open 10 more commercial recruitment branches throughout Merseyside and the North-West in 2009. Liverpool’s team of five senior consultants will be headed by newly-promoted operations director, Rachel Hough.East Midlands gets blusourceEntrepreneur ...
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People Moves 29th October 2008
29-Oct-2008
Non-executive director and management buy-in resource specialist, First Flight, has appointed a non-executive director of its own — Cheshire-based headhunter, Ross Monro.
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Playing at job advertising
29-Oct-2008
Recruiters will soon be able to place advertisements in web-based games and target specific audiences using Google’s AdSense for Games program.The software can integrate video advertisements into web-based games, complemented by text and image ads. It is currently in beta (in development) in the US but should be available in the UK in the next few months.Luke Mckend, industry head for ...
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Public sector
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
Public sector recruitment: One-Stop-Shop launched for Scottish local government careers
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Randstad results
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
Randstad releases third quarter results
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REC report
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
Employers recruiting less but paying more to find right talent
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Recruiter appointments
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
Barfield appointed Kelway non-executive chairman
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Recruiter deal
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Harvey Nash in strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent
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Recruiter deal
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Norman Broadbent bought by Garner
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Recruiter deal
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
idibu completes integration with Jobcentre Plus
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Recruiter deal
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
RSA expands into China in partnership with Foster Partners
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Recruiter results
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Penna releases results
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Recruiters cash in on gulf boom
29-Oct-2008
Against the backdrop of a British Embassy reception in Doha, Qatar, IT recruiter Adrian Treacy found himself talking with a middle-aged Qatari man about a subject much closer to Treacy’s UK home.“I was chatting to him about Aberdeen football,” Treacy recalls. “He told me had been the first Muslim to receive his doctorate at Robert Gordon [University]. We were just chatting away.”The topic ...
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Recruitment deal
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
ADTECH agrees deal with Crunch Digital Media Company
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Results summary
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Monster profits up in Q3
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Retail recruitment
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Retail boards awarding “do or die” pay deals to chief executives
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Retail recruitment
Mon, 3 Nov 2008
Retail recruiters welcome Westfield opening
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Retail recruitment
Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Retail recruitment: Retailers will still need to recruit despite drop in high-street sales, claims a recruiter
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Senior executives
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Global demand for senior executives declines
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Service sector
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
Service sector contracts for record sixth consecutive month
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Share slump will hit morale
29-Oct-2008
Colin CottellDespite the billions thrown at banks in rescue packages around the world, there seems no end to the misery as far as stock markets are concerned.With recession now officially imminent, the valuation of recruitment agency shares has not been immune.Indeed as our Share Watch chart reveals, over the past two weeks the recruitment sector has been particularly badly hit, with 25 companies seeing their shares fall in value, ...
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Shock as recruiter dies in armed siege at office
29-Oct-2008
The recruitment industry has been left shocked and sickened after an armed siege left 45-year-old driving recruiter Kingsley Monk dead and three colleagues injured in Pontypool, South Wales.Monk, a father of two and director at Driverline247, died at the scene at his office in New Inn on 20 October.A preliminary post-mortem examination revealed that he died from “pressure on his neck”.
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Small business
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
FPB urges bank to restore 2007 lending levels
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Small business
Tue, 4 Nov 2008
Small firm insolvencies to increase by 41%
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Small businesses
Thu, 30 Oct 2008
Chancellor to announce £4bn boost to SMEs
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Soundbites 29th November 2008
29-Oct-2008
Faye Cornhill Regional sales manager, StarThe reputation of selling as a professional career is shifting, and it’s a perfect time to encourage fresh, target-driven graduates to embark on recruitment as their career of choice. Recruitment businesses can encourage a positive impression of the industry by developing graduates and offering them a sound career path with training. By adopting ...
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Squires steps up to plate to boost sports recruiter
29-Oct-2008
A stalwart of the global executive search industry has taken on the chairmanship of specialist search consultancy Sports Recruitment International (SRI) with a mandate to recruit and retain talent.With over 27 years’ experience in global executive search, Michael Squires will develop a commercial infrastructure to help SRI grow its executive search for top managers in the sports and leisure industry ...
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Training for the credit crunch
29-Oct-2008
It might be tempting in the current climate to make cutbacks, but training is one area in which you should invest. Cath Janes reports
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Travel recruitment
Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Lufthansa purchase of BMI could mean the creation of UK jobs rather than job losses
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Travel recruitment
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
Travel recruitment: European airline failures will hit travel jobs
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Travel recruitment
Wed, 5 Nov 2008
Travel recruitment: Recruiters attack government over runway decision delay
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Travel recruitment
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
Travel recruitment: Recruiters say travel firms will emerge from recession stronger
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Trip shows Gulf is land of opportunity
29-Oct-2008
Participants in a trade delegation of UK recruiters to the Middle East say the trip was a great success — both in terms of learning the lie of the land and gaining new business.More than 20 travellers took part in the trip, spearheaded by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCo).Representing recruitment firms specialising in IT, engineering, HR and other professions, the ...
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Type-cast candidate
29-Oct-2008
It seems that even in these ‘candidate-heavy’ times, when you’d think CVs would be honed to perfection, recruiters are still finding small gems that stand out for all the wrong reasons.
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UK economy
Fri, 7 Nov 2008
Interest rate cut will be “shot in the arm” for economy, a recruiter claims
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UK jobs
Wed, 5 Nov 2008
Permanent and temporary vacancies slump
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US election
Wed, 5 Nov 2008
UK recruiters welcome Obama election victory
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US recruiters vow to beat recession
29-Oct-2008
Concern over the gathering global economic storm, combined with a determination to rise above it, characterised the dominant mood of US and international recruiters attending the American Staffing Association annual convention in San Diego last week.The upbeat line-up of talks and workshops featuring themes of innovation, the secrets of building a healthy temporary and contract business, and tips ...
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Web Chat 29th November 2008
29-Oct-2008
A vital role to play in boosting economyAT LAST a truly positive and, dare I say, uplifting comment about the place good recruiters have in driving a return to more prosperous times (recruiter.co.uk, ‘Retail recruitment’, 15 October).If recruitment companies are regarded as an outsourced facility, briefed properly and used to the full extent of their industry expertise, they can not only save time and resource for their clients but they can deliver ...
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WHO'S HIRING
29-Oct-2008
Online search company Infoserve has launched a partnership with Google in a deal that could see the creation of 150 jobs in the Tees Valley.A turbine manufacturing planet in Co.Louth has announced plans to create up to 30 new jobs after winning an order to develop a tidal-current farm in France. The jobs will be created at the Open Hydrp plant in Omeath.
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Working hours
Wed, 5 Nov 2008
CBI calls on MEPs to reject working time amendments
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Working hours
Thu, 6 Nov 2008
MEPs vote to end UK’s opt-out of 48-hour working week
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Working hours
Mon, 10 Nov 2008
EU vote not the end for 48-hour working week
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Workplace roles
Mon, 3 Nov 2008
Jokers need not apply, new research shows
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Workplace skills
Tue, 11 Nov 2008
Millions of adults are looking to improve skills due to downturn
