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Our quest to find the UK’s champion temporary, contract and interim workers has met with a fantastic response from all sectors of the industry and all parts of the UK.

The Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) decision in September that eight recruitment companies engaged in anti-competitive behaviour during the period between late 2004 and early 2006 gives recruiters some things to think about.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) and an industry committee made up of trade associations and job board providers has reached the drafting stage of its online recruitment standard, BS 8877.

Recruiters’ revenues have been falling since last summer, which is perhaps unsurprising considering the current economic climate.
However, the difficult judgement call now is: how far is turnover likely to drop?

Guest: take onine seriously

Guest: take onine seriously

The online recruitment sector is increasingly fragmented and an entire flip of the traditional online recruiting model may be at hand.

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Two recruiters cleared of conspiring to defraud Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have told Recruiter they are determined to build another successful recruitment business, despite falling prey to “professional conman” Tim Baker.

Given the macro-economic data on unemployment, it is not surprising that employment in the recruitment industry is shrinking, according to BDO Stoy Hayward’s review of the latest data outputs from Recruitment Industry Benchmarking (RIB).

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It is widely accepted that the worst of the recession is behind us and that some growth will be evident across the country during Q4 of 2009.

Recruitment process outsourcing is still in its infancy, especially outside the US. Vanessa Townsend discovers that the industry is evolving at an extremely fast pace - for both providers and clients alike

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