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RPCushing creates brand new 'point of difference'
Specialist recruiter RPCushing has found a novel way to identify talent and raise brand awareness in the market research sector, as it launched its specialist search and selection operation.

The marketing services recruiter approached the industry magazine, Research, and suggested it ran a p
Simply Hired is game on with IT-savvy generation

Further evidence of recruiters using favourite online hang-outs of the gaming generation to target future IT-savvy talent comes with Simply Hired's announcement of its alliance with the web's leading games and entertainment website, IGN.com.

IGN users can click on 'Find jobs', which takes them thr

Extra Personnel directly employs its 6,000 temps

Midlands and North-West recruitment firm Extra Personnel has announced it will directly employ 6,000 temporary workers, giving them job security and employment benefits.

Recruiters' role limited in finding jobless work
Recruitment agencies only have a limited role in helping long-term benefit claimants into work, Peter Hain, the work and pensions secretary, has told Recruiter.

Ironically Hain's comments came after he signed up Randstad UK to join the government's Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) — a £1bn initia
Managers 'don't see any future' with their firms
A third of managers are thinking of leaving their job in the near future, according to research by management training organisation, Roffey Park Institute.

The survey found that 10% of managers "strongly agreed" with the statement "I am thinking of leaving in the near future", while 23% "agreed".
New PASA guidelines 'will be hard to comply with'
Recruiters have been left shocked, angry and confused after the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) announced tougher new guidance for the supply of clerical and administrative staff.

The new guidelines, which were due to come into effect at the beginning of February, put clerical and admin staff
Video CV sender service puts agencies at the top

Recruitment agencies can now send video CVs to clients, branded with a logo, via a service developed by the online job board Jobs2View.com.

Jonathan Glas, co-founder of Jobs2View, told Recruiter: "By allowing recruiters to email video CVs to their clients, fully branded with their company

Greythorn group rebrands as global FiveTen Group
The fast-growing Greythorn family of recruitment companies is rebranding this week as the FiveTen Group.

In a related move, this week also sees the global rebranding and integration of the group's financial recruitment subsidiaries Marks Sattin and WH Recruitment as WH Marks Sattin.

The group r
Agencies' suggestions for Darling's first budget
As the country awaits Alistair Darling's first budget speech, recruiters have outlined their wishlist for the Chancellor.

Greg Latham, managing director of industrial, driving and engineering recruiter Encore, said the minimum wage has helped stop 'rogue operators' who use wages as an "unethical pric
Scottish recruiters wary of Procurement Scotland
Procurement Scotland, the new system of buying goods and services launched by Scotland's government on 6 March, is getting a wary welcome from Scottish recruiters.

Scottish finance minister John Swinney has challenged the country's small-and-medium sized enter- prises to prove they can provide better services than competitors from beyond the border in order to win work through Procurement S
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