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Recruiters urged to communicate with financial partners to plan ahead this Christmas
Recruiters are being urged to plan ahead this Christmas and communicate fully with financial partners to avoid problems with BACS payments.
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In response to your story ‘Racist recruitment practices exposed by BBC undercover investigation’ (recruiter.co.uk, 15 January), I have worked in
this industry for over eight years and never has a client asked me to send only white applicants.
So 25 out of 30 recruiters agreeing to send only white applicants to me seems a very false allegation!
An increase in the time taken for the Criminal Records Bureau to carry out checks on candidates is hitting recruiters.
Steven Benton, director of Rye-based social care recruiter Trustinus Recruit, told Recruiter that enhanced CRB checks for jobs such as child protection social workers were taking between two and three months compared with one month a year ago.
The growth in graduate recruitment is now being reversed, said Carl Gilleard, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
Gilleard was responding to a survey of 100 companies by market research firm High Flyers, which showed graduate vacancies had fallen by a fifth since last year for students graduating this summer.
HR departments should seek professionals that can adapt to an ever-changing work environment brought about by the recession, according to HR recruiters.
Claire Needham, director at Network HR, told Recruiter that her clients currently require candidates to be “calm, professional, resilient and adaptable in the current changing marketplace”.
Yesterday’s rise in unemployment to 1.92m is not all bad news.
Mark Cahill, Manpower UK’s managing director, says that after a period of uncertainty, in which many employers put off making any changes to staffing levels, temporary recruitment could be given a boost.
Supermarket chain Asda is to create 7,000 new jobs.
In a statement, Asda said it would work with government and private recruiters to find full and part time work for people that have been unemployed for more than six months.
Asda added that it plans to open nine new stores, while its online division will hire 2,000 new staff.