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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

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

Most annoying colleagues tend to be called ‘Sue’ or ‘John’

Are you annoyed by a ‘Sue’ or a ‘John’ at your agency? You’re not on your own, if research from Instaprint is anything to go by.

2 September 2019

Is this the sweetest job of all time? We’re not taking the biscuit

Is pudding your favourite part of a meal? Then we have the perfect role for you.

Retail, Hospitality/Leisure 30 August 2019

What are the most popular names in recruitment?

Chris, James, Laura and Lucy are among the most popular names in the recruitment sector.

29 August 2019

Coffee brand offers refreshing opportunity

Do you love coffee and travelling? Well, we have the perfect role for you.

Hospitality/Leisure 27 August 2019

Recruiter calls for offices to opt for rescue dogs

Companies have been urged to consider a rescue dog as their next office dog by a recruiter who combines running a recruitment agency with rehoming dogs from a shelter in Lanzarote.

23 August 2019

Birmingham café seeks feline fan

Are you mad about cats? Then we have the purr-fect role for you.

Hospitality/Leisure 23 August 2019

Ozzie welfare man takes job-avoidance to superhuman extremes

Recruiters normally encounter candidates keen on advancing their careers, showing up booted and suited for interview.

19 August 2019

Homesitters seeks flexible workers to home and pet sit across the UK

Nationwide pet and home sitting company Homesitters is on the hunt for older people to work for them as home and pet sitters across the UK.

Hospitality/Leisure 16 August 2019

Social recruiting September 2019

From 50th anniversary celebrations, helping the next generation and high hopes thanks to aviation, you’ve been busy since the last Recruiter…

14 August 2019

Bag yourself a behind-the-scenes role on Hollyoaks

If you love your soaps but don’t rate your acting abilities, then a job behind the camera could be your big break from recruitment.

Creative/Digital/Media 9 August 2019

Office cat Simba, King of Boffin Recruitment

On International Cat Day, Recruiter would like to introduce readers to office cat Simba, the ‘chief foot warmer’ at recruitment agency Boffin Recruitment & The Boffin Network.

8 August 2019

Garden centre’s recruitment drive for Santa and his little helpers begins

It may still be 142 days until Christmas but that hasn’t stopped the Brigg Garden Centre in Lincolnshire beginning its annual recruitment drive for Santa and his little helpers to work at the centre this festive season.

Hospitality/Leisure 5 August 2019

Stafflex’s Agnes is the office buddy we all need

To mark World Friendship Day this week, Recruiter is featuring man’s (and woman’s) best friend.

Public sector, Education 2 August 2019

Liberty Games is on the lookout to recruit a pinball wizard

Do you like to unwind from the stresses of being a recruiter by playing a mean pinball?

Hospitality/Leisure 1 August 2019

Recruitment drive for dog-friendly holiday company was pawsome

A dog-friendly cottage company’s spring recruitment drive has proven successful, with 13 new ruff but pawsome recruits brought on board.

Hospitality/Leisure 30 July 2019