Our Soundbite question for 24 June is: “Over the past six months, what innovations have you adopted to win more business?”
Send your innovative ideas — and tell us if they have helped increase business for you — to [email protected], along with a hi-res image of yourself.
The best will appear in the Soundbites column in the 24 June issue of Recruiter.
Mckend: follow the user
Recruiters must adapt to the relentless challenge posed by social media or die, last week’s meeting of the Recruitment Society heard.
Synergy Group, the international recruitment, contracting and training services provider, has signed a minimum two-year contract worth £124,000 with Bond International Software.
Bond Adapt will be implemented across the business, managing up to 1,400 contractors per week.
Civil servants have sent out thousands of letters to businesses in an effort to unearth racism.
A total of 1,000 bogus CVs were sent out to test whether candidates with ethnic minority names were treated differently to those with traditional British nationals, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.
Recruitment and training agency Acorn has opened a new office in the centre of Cardiff.
Acorn specialises in industrial, office and events recruitment at the larger premises in Duke Street in the Welsh capital.
Charity staffing firm Flow Caritas has won a contract by the Department of Work and Pensions to help unemployed professionals get jobs in charities.
Confidence in the services sector improved marginally in June, according to the latest CIPS/Markit survey.
The purchasing managers index posted a reading of 51.6, from 51.7 in May.
New business fell in June, with the largest falls among those companies with the relatively greater exposure to consumer spending (such as hotels, catering & restaurants and personal services).
Most HR management professionals (64%) believe the mandatory retirement age causes a loss of valuable knowledge and talent, according to a survey from TAEN – The Age and Employment Network, and the Employers Forum on Age.
And of those that had removed the mandatory retirement age, more than three quarters viewed it as a positive step.
Technology and technical recruiter s.com has been appointed by the Department of Health (DH) and NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA) as a supplier on the commercial resource framework.
British recruitment consultants working in Australia have been forced to come home to the UK.