John Robinson, managing director of technical, engineering, scientific and commercial recruiter Scantec Personnel, says that as social networking sites become more popular it is in danger of becoming a double-edged sword for candidates.
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The government has chosen welfare-to-work provider Reed in Partnership to run a core component of its Backing Young Britain programme, aimed at helping unemployed 18-24 year olds into non-graduate internships and work experience placements.
The legal sector has become more competitive, as M&A activity has fallen, so candidate numbers in this area have risen
A weak pound and relatively cheap rents lured international firms over to the UK to benefit from shopping tourists. But will this continue?
Branding sophisticates can stop reading this piece right here - or read on, if you want a moment in which you can groan, tear at your hair, say a few choice words and know that you enjoy our full empathy.
Not only must the sector deal with the fallout from the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but it has to come to terms with an ageing workforce
“With the major parties issuing their election manifestos, what are you hoping the next government will offer to help the recruitment/resourcing industry?”
Call-centre operatives are in high demand as the sector starts to recover from the recession, but finding and retaining staff is no easy task
Faced with the recruitment of thousands of new hires over a period of years, HR consulting and outsourcing solutions firm Hewitt Associates has started to build a global sourcing operation.
In Recruiter 3 March, the HR director of The British Library Mary Canavan said references were dead. How useful do you find them? And if you don’t use them, what do you use to assess candidates?