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Climber adds employer ranking tool
Careers site Climber.com is adding a tool that ranks 100,000-plus companies based upon input from those who have worked for the company.

The site allows companies to create a 'DNA profile' by getting their top-performers to complete an online assessment of their values.
'Golden year' for ethnic graduates
Employers are putting "extensive and effective marketing" to work to hire more graduates from ethnic minorities, according to a report by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.

The AGR's 2008 Winter Review found the percentage of graduates from ethnic minorities increased from 15.1% in 2006 to 26.7% in 2007.
Credit crunch hits mortgage sector
Uncertainty in the housing market has had an impact on recruitment, but the effect has been patchy, according to niche mortgage industry recruiters.

The news comes as the Bank of England announced that the number of new mortgage applications had decreased for the seventh consecutive month in December
Relay passes baton on to employees
York-based Relay Recruitment has set up a training centre aimed at honing a generation of commercially astute in-house entrepreneurs.

Existing employees and new recruits will spend at least a week receiving one-to-one training and mentoring, headed by Alex Golding, Relay's talent and recruitment director.

Golding said the centre will plug a gap in training for first-hand workplace ex
Society denounces HMRC legislation
The Recruitment Society is campaigning against the money laundering regulations introduced in December (Recruiter,>/i> 6 February) that could see recruiters sent to prison for up to five years.
Soft landing rather than recession
Despite most banks seeing their market value halve over the last year, recruiters are in good shape to weather any economic storm, David Silver, managing director of investment bank Robert W Baird told Recruiter's forum.

Silver said recruitment agencies had more flexible cost structures and assets, which could be transferred should the economy crash into recession.

He added that a re
Long-term plans boost firms' value
Recruitment agencies that want the maximum value for the sale or flotation of their business need to prepare at least two years in advance, a Recruiter Masterclass heard.

Christopher Clark, a director at BDO Stoy Hayward's corporate finance team, said agencies often miss out because they fail to implement long-term st
Hell's kitchen with new visa system_2

Hospitality recruiters may face even greater problems finding suitable chefs when government plans to tighten up the working visa system come to fruition next year.

CSG looks into incorrect accounting

Corporate Services Group's share price fell 25% from 6.9p to 5.12p on the day it released a trading update which reported a performance broadly in line with its expectations for the first seven months of the year. However, the statement also revealed it has commissioned a review by forensic accountants into incorrect accounting (see News, p5). The share price continued falling to 5.02p.

Private equity is good for business

I read with interest the article (Recruiter, 8 August) on the interaction between private equity and the recruitment sector: 'Is buy-out bonanza set for blow out?'. There is no doubt that the spotlight on the private equity industry will continue.

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