The UK has twice as many recruitment professionals as a proportion of overall population than the US, according to Bullhorn’s TransAtlantic Recruitment 2011 report, surveying 50,000 recruiters across the two nations. UK recruiters work nearly an hour a day more than their US counterparts and gain better results. Peter Linas, Bullhorn’s Europe, Middle East and Africa managing director, notes another strong trend: “UK recruiters submit fewer candidates to their clients but secure more interviews; this means the funnel diagram has more of a ’pint glass’ shape compared to the US’s ’Martini glass’ model!” Quite where the glassware at Linas’s local comes from is anyone’s guess…