Employers in sectors pressurised by factors such as low pay, high attrition, skills shortages and too few quality candidates say they could use an injection of innovation into their recruitment practices.
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Engineering and technology will be the first sectors targeted to sign on to the Good Recruitment Campaign, which was launched last week by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).
Recruitment services firm Penna is on the lookout for further acquisitions, following its £1.1m cash purchase of HR consulting firm Savile Group in December, according to Penna’s chief executive officer.
Efforts to employ more local people have become increasingly difficult in the digital age, according to Islington Council’s HR director.
The performance upside of playing to strengths is huge, so why haven’t more organisations woken up to this?
Unless radical action is taken soon, the NHS is likely to be faced with a nursing staffing shortfall
There’s not much difference between the ‘war for talent’ and the ‘war for voters’
On the eve of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence gala, it’s our pleasure to tip our hat to two recruitment industry stars who have garnered the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2014 for their achievements in International Trade: IT & telecoms recruiter Penta Consulting and energy recruiter Spencer Ogden.
Last month Kevin Green, chief executive officer of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), declared that executive search firms should publish the percentage of positions filled by women, as well as female placements by salary band, on their websites and in their annual reports.
Since writing this column, I have been approached by a number of driven recruiters about setting up a recruitment company.