Working in post-conflict reconstruction situations has similarities to recruitment, according to Andy Bearpark, director general of the British Association of Private Security Companies, and former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.
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Recruiters are attractive targets for private equity investment, Owen Trotter, a partner of Key Capital Partners, said.
The company chose distribution and warehousing contract recruiter Templine Recruitment, at the end of last month, for its first investment from its maiden fund, a £4.3m funding of the management buy-out. "We were attracted by the quality of the management team.
The company chose distribution and warehousing contract recruiter Templine Recruitment, at the end of last month, for its first investment from its maiden fund, a £4.3m funding of the management buy-out. "We were attracted by the quality of the management team.
Britain's creative sector is suffering from a serious skills mismatch between supply and demand, according to an internal report by Creative & Cultural Skills, the sector skills council.
TheLadders.co.uk, the US-owned job board for senior management positions, has launched in the UK.
The website, launched last month, already has 50,000 members from senior level professions and businesses.
General manager Sarah Drew told Recruiter: "It's gone crazy since January.
The website, launched last month, already has 50,000 members from senior level professions and businesses.
General manager Sarah Drew told Recruiter: "It's gone crazy since January.
Careers site Climber.com is adding a tool that ranks 100,000-plus companies based upon input from those who have worked for the company.
The site allows companies to create a 'DNA profile' by getting their top-performers to complete an online assessment of their values.
The site allows companies to create a 'DNA profile' by getting their top-performers to complete an online assessment of their values.
Employers are putting "extensive and effective marketing" to work to hire more graduates from ethnic minorities, according to a report by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
The AGR's 2008 Winter Review found the percentage of graduates from ethnic minorities increased from 15.1% in 2006 to 26.7% in 2007.
The AGR's 2008 Winter Review found the percentage of graduates from ethnic minorities increased from 15.1% in 2006 to 26.7% in 2007.
Uncertainty in the housing market has had an impact on recruitment, but the effect has been patchy, according to niche mortgage industry recruiters.The news comes as the Bank of England announced that the number of new mortgage applications had decreased for the seventh consecutive month in December
York-based Relay Recruitment has set up a training centre aimed at honing a generation of commercially astute in-house entrepreneurs.
Existing employees and new recruits will spend at least a week receiving one-to-one training and mentoring, headed by Alex Golding, Relay's talent and recruitment director.
Golding said the centre will plug a gap in training for first-hand workplace ex
Existing employees and new recruits will spend at least a week receiving one-to-one training and mentoring, headed by Alex Golding, Relay's talent and recruitment director.
Golding said the centre will plug a gap in training for first-hand workplace ex
The Recruitment Society is campaigning against the money laundering regulations introduced in December (Recruiter,>/i> 6 February) that could see recruiters sent to prison for up to five years.
Despite most banks seeing their market value halve over the last year, recruiters are in good shape to weather any economic storm, David Silver, managing director of investment bank Robert W Baird told Recruiter's forum.
Silver said recruitment agencies had more flexible cost structures and assets, which could be transferred should the economy crash into recession.
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Silver said recruitment agencies had more flexible cost structures and assets, which could be transferred should the economy crash into recession.
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