Hats off to you with your honest reporting of a typical week in the life of a recruitment business owner (Recruiter, 29 April, ‘Diary of…’). I, like yourself, run my own recruitment business and I am finding that the current climate is ‘testing’ the boundaries more than ever. All too often I read the diary articles and have to frown when they all report booming times and huge levels of success in a week despite the recession. I was pleased to see that other people’s weeks are as testing as mine.

Peter Donoghue, Metier