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For all procurement people working on recruitment-related projects: please get real!

Forget psychometric testing and take CVs with a liberal dose of salt. The best way to recruit is using a ‘Mr Men’-style interview form that helps hirers to identify candidates with specific personality traits, says John Timpson, chairman of high-street cobblers and key-cutters, Timpson.
Three leading UK universities and two in Asia will participate in the Association of Professional Staffing Companies’ (APSCo’s) soon-to-be launched intern programme aimed at attracting fresh, high-calibre talent into the recruitment profession.
Contractor services firm ICS and job site CV-Library have been announced as the latest sponsors for the Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2014.
The chief executive officer of Randstad for UK and the Middle East has told Recruiter that he is pleased with recent financial and organisational development progress at the company, but that more needs to be done.
Recruitment targets at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, are set in proportion to its 23-member countries’ financial contributions.
The most popular use of ‘Big Data’ in UK businesses is for sales and marketing activities, according to MBN Recruitment Solutions’ ‘Big Data Survey 2013’.

Improving economy leads to reduction in recruitment agency administrations, reports Christopher Goodfellow

As the business world becomes a smaller place, firms need more people with the skills to work and build teams internationally. Colin Cottell investigates the latest global mobility trend
Since leaving a large recruitment company to set up my own consultancy, Hyper Recruitment Solutions (HRS), there has been one thing I always struggle to have enough of — time!
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