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Recruiters should cultivate a culture of picking up the phone
Do you remember the time when we used a telephone to talk to each other? It’s quite hard to believe that’s the way we all communicated. Well, once upon a time the telephone was also the primary method of communication between recruiters and candidates. However, the story is quite different today.
Sector Analysis Public Sector
With a General election just round the corner, the prospects for recruitment remains up in the air for those working in the sector.
Positive spoke Kerr's language
Multi-lingual recruiter Kerr Recruitment wanted to reinvigorate its brand and to revamp its website. Positive advertising answered the call and found a bi-lingual online solution.
Matthew Jeffery

Colin Cottell spoke with the Vice-president — Head of global sourcing and employment branding at SAP

Editor's Comment Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Almost as constant as the rain the UK had for much of November has been the steady flow of mergers, acquisitions and major investments throughout the recruitment industry in recent weeks: Impellam snaps up Lorien, Hays takes a major stake in Veredus, the RIG Energy deal and of course, Tim Cook’s major move, supported by Graphite, at the Human Capital Investment Group.
When benefits bite back! Beware 'team rewards'
In recruitment we constantly try to come up with ways to motivate and retain our best employees. This results in an ever-evolving deluge of ‘benefits’, and it results in the good, the bad and the ugly.
Research pinpoints Great Britain's skill hot spots
New research by professional networking site LinkedIn identifies a “growing business belt” across the North of England featuring pools of skills such as financial planning, customer service and business development.
Soundbites Dec 2014/Jan 2015
“Do you think British workers are too fussy when it comes to jobseeking compared to other nationalities in the UK?”
Job boards set to hike prices next year
Recruiters who rely on job boards will have to dig a bit deeper into their pockets next year, with research by recruitment marketing specialists GKS Associates showing 95% of job boards are planning to hike prices in 2015.
Unfilled vacancies cost UK economy £18bn a year
Unfilled vacancies are costing the UK economy more than £18bn a year, according to a study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) on behalf of job board Indeed.com.
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