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Social recruiting: May/June 2025

Whether you’ve been trekking up a hill, making a team look brill, donating chocs to fill [a foodbank] or walking a mill-ion steps, you lot have been busy!

Construction & property, Charity & not-for-profit 7 May 2025

Our Melica turns out to be lukewarm rather than hot stuff on The Apprentice

Sorry to ruin your weekend, but recruitment’s representative in the BBC’s The Apprentice is no longer the red-hot business partner for entrepreneur Lord Sugar.

IT/Telecoms 20 March 2025

Are we banking on Melica for The Apprentice?

The BBC’s The Apprentice train rumbles on, and in the latest episode candidates were charged with delivering a banking app for children.

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 17 March 2025

Did Melica taste success in The Apprentice in Türkiye?

BBC reality programme The Apprentice sent the remaining candidates packing this week – to Türkiye.

IT/Telecoms 10 March 2025

Social recruiting: March/April 2025

From helping kids in care, currying favour with fellow recruiters to bee-hiving yourselves in the environment, you’ve been busy since the last Recruiter…

Public sector, Social care 4 March 2025

Social recruiting: January/February 2025

From sponsoring teams to giving kids sweet dreams, you’ve been excelling yourselves in the past year…

Charity & not-for-profit 21 January 2025
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Social recruiting: November/December 2024

Through sport or giving up their time, recruiters continue to make a real difference since the last issue of Recruiter...

Charity & not-for-profit, Hospitality/Leisure 12 November 2024
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Social recruiting September/October 2024

Recruitment organisations continue to work with partners and charities to make a real difference since the last edition Recruiter…

Transport & logistics, Construction & property 10 September 2024

Social recruiting March/April 2024

Recruiters and staff continue to help charities. Here are some examples we’ve seen since the previous Recruiter…

Public sector, Construction & property 8 May 2024

Paintball intern job receives thousands of applications

UK Paintball has been inundated with applications for its summer intern vacancy.

Interim recruitment, Hospitality/Leisure 15 May 2019

Barman at Jamaica’s Pelican Bar seeks temp so he can take time off

Would you like to swap recruitment for mixing cocktails in the Caribbean?

Hospitality/Leisure 15 May 2019

Boost your recruitment business with teambuilding activities

It’s almost time for recruiters up and down the country to head out on their annual summer days out, but which teambuilding activity would best benefit your businesses?

HR, Hospitality/Leisure 13 May 2019

Get your team together for football’s 2019 Recruitment five-a-side

Rec-to-rec firm Madison Warner is on the lookout for recruiters to take part in its 2019 Recruitment five-a-side football tournament.

Hospitality/Leisure 3 May 2019
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Recruitment resilience got runner with broken ankle across marathon finish line

The determination needed to be a recruitment consultant helped propel a competitor, who broke her ankle during this weekend’s London marathon, over the line.

2 May 2019

School-age intern required to test paintball guns

A UK paintball company is on the hunt for a summer intern to test out a new range of ‘low impact’ paintball guns across 75 UK locations with their friends.

Interim recruitment, Hospitality/Leisure 2 May 2019

Pump up the volume for productivity on the recruitment floor

Listening to the likes of Firestarter, Insomnia and Ebeneezer Goode could be the key to boosting productivity at agencies up and down the country.

1 May 2019

Britain had recruiter talent back in the early days of BGT

With Britain’s Got Talent currently entertaining viewers in its 13th season, Recruiter has uncovered yet another recruiter to have appeared on the TV talent show.

Hospitality/Leisure 26 April 2019

Daily News back on Tuesday after the Easter Bank holiday!

Recruiter’s daily bulletin is taking a break after today for the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

18 April 2019

Millionaire seeks gamemaker to create Battle Royale-inspired event

A millionaire has enlisted the help of luxury product marketplace HushHush.com to help recruit a ‘gamemaker’ to create an arena event inspired by the film Battle Royale on a private island, after a customer enquired about buying an island for a championship through the site.

Hospitality/Leisure 10 April 2019

Katie Price to recruit a couple to clean and look after her kids

Do you fancy swapping the world of recruitment to work for Katie Price?

Hospitality/Leisure 4 April 2019

Recruitment firm gives resourcer her Shangri-llama reward to say thanks

Resourcers are the backbone of any recruitment agency and can mean the difference between whether or not a client can secure the perfect candidate.

29 March 2019

The Queen serves up top notch sous chef role in Royal Household

Fancy swapping the world of recruitment for cooking for Her Majesty the Queen? Well, step this way as we have the perfect role for you.

Hospitality/Leisure 29 March 2019

Sniff out the best vegan food in the world and get a great celery too!

How would you like to travel the world tasting vegan food and be paid £50k a year for your trouble?

Hospitality/Leisure 29 March 2019

Don’t be hampered by taste – here’s the incentive your staff need

If you value your staff and want to prove it, how about a specially tailored, luxury recruiter hamper?

22 March 2019

HushHush.com offers an apprenticeship but not as we know it

Put aside your outdated images of low-paid apprentices. Cast out of your mind once and for all the idea of apprentices as cheap labour to be exploited by cynical employers.

Retail, Transport & logistics 21 March 2019
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