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A Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) survey of 36 education recruitment agencies has revealed that 75% believe more must be done to restore public confidence in teacher background checks.
Recruiters and clients need a clear contractual relationship to work well together, according to a representative from a charity for the homeless.

Pete Jeffery, executive director of HR, audit and facilities at St Mungo's, said that the organisation was evaluating the way it used agency staff in order to keep tabs on spending.

Recruiters of interim managers should adopt partnership approaches with their clients to achieve better results.

That's the view of Tony Evans, chairman of the Institute of Interim Management, who spoke at last month's meeting of the Recruitment Society.

Evans told members that an increasin

UK businesses' use of recruitment agencies fell again last year, with expense cited as the main turn-off for companies, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's latest study on recruitment, retention and turnover.

The survey of 905 employers found that 73% of businesses still used recruitment agencies in 2006, which is down from 76% in 2005.

The report's au

Recruiters are carrying out detailed checks with umbrella companies and other tax scheme providers to ensure that they are compliant with the new tax legislation relating to managed service companies (MSCs).

Nurses are losing out on pay due to a staged wage increase, claims Kate Harris, commercial director of healthcare recruiter Pulse.

Harris says that health secretary Alan Johnson's proposal of a pay-rise for the lowest-paid staff in the NHS is not as positive as it might first appear, particularly fo
Fish4jobs revealed a raft of developments when it met with advertisers to dispel rumours that it is in trouble after its shareholder Northcliffe Media pulled out.

Chief executive, Joe Slavin, told the London meeting earlier this month: "We keep hearing rumours that we are in trouble but we aren't.
Benchmark, the specialist executive search consultancy, has appointed the former chief of the general staff of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, as non-executive chairman.

General Sir Mike will act as a mentor strategist and senior consultant in the aerospace, defence and security practice,

JobTonic's recently announced partnership with social network MyNeighbourhoods is yet more evidence of the importance the recruitment industry is placing on social networking websites to attract candidates.

Nick Goldstein, general manager of the referral recruitment website, saw MyNeighbourhoods m

The next generation of websites are using new technology to bring employers, recruiters and candidates together anonymously over the internet.

Providers claim these anonymous headhunting systems could revolutionise online recruitment by reducing the cost per hire and enabling a far more targeted approach.

StaffCV has launched a global system called QuietAgent that is now experiencing
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