Poor recruitment practices are costing UK businesses £5bn a year, according to research revealed exclusively to Recruiter by people assessment firm Talent Q.
It found that almost half of employees were recruited without any efforts to determine whether they could do the job — 44% of hires didn't include a personality assessment and 24% didn't test the employee's abilities.
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Hundreds of recruiters have less than two weeks to register with HMRC, or face a £5,000 fine or cease trading under the government's new money laundering regulations.The government introduced new money laundering regulations on 15 December 2007, which include the requirement that recruiters who supp
Health and social care recruitment agency Pulse has clinched two major NHS Trust contracts worth £15m a year.
The three-year deal, which launches in May, will see Pulse manage flexible staffing requirements for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Richard MacMillan, Pulse's chief executive, said the award makes the compan
The three-year deal, which launches in May, will see Pulse manage flexible staffing requirements for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Richard MacMillan, Pulse's chief executive, said the award makes the compan
The managing director of Randstad Work Solutions, Fred van der Tang, has called for licensing as a way of cleaning up the UK recruitment industry, and getting rid of its rogue element.Following his presentation at Recruiter's Annual Forum, van der Tang told Recruiter: "I would favour tighter barriers to entry because
Agencies must improve communication and transparency levels if they are to engender more trust from candidates, according to findings from independent agency scoring website HireScores.com.
A survey commissioned by the firm shows that almost 90% felt the recruitment industry should become more transparent.
I can fully understand the pressure placed on civil servants to work long hours. What with their flexi-time days off, over-generous enhanced holidays, allowable sick days, duvet days and sabbaticals, it's a wonder they manage to complete any work at all.
For those who feel the dress code of their recruitment company is too restrictive, help is at hand. If you feel tied down by the stuffy business attire of today's recruitment consultant, then there is a job board to suit you: www.nude-jobs.co.uk. No one has bought the domain yet, so surely it is only a matter of time before it appears in Recruiter's Dealmakers section.
HM Revenue & Customs' proposed audit standard for managed service providers could fail due to high fees charged by the 'Big four' chartered accountancy firms to carry out the audits, the managing director of a service provider has claimed.
New money laundering regulations that come into effect on 15 December will impose additional legal responsibilities on recruiters. Failure to comply could see senior managers sent to jail for up to two years and/or face an unlimited fine.
Unscrupulous employment agencies in other EU member states are "at the heart of some of the worst abuses" affecting migrant workers in the UK, a London conference on migrant workers has heard.