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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
Pay-per-click tool will boost recruiting results
Jobs search engine WorkCircle is launching a new service based on the sophisticated systems it has built to manage its own pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns on search engines such as Google, MSN and Yahoo.

Called Massive Traffic Driving (MTD), it can integrate a job board's database or agency's jobs inve
HMRC claims staff hire concessions are 'obsolete'
HM Treasury has downplayed recruitment industry concerns that removing VAT concessions on staff hire next year could cost employers in excess of £100m and compromise the flexible workforce.
Ecademy builds networks with CareerBuilder links

Jobs posted to the career site CareerBuilder can now be accessed by registered members of the established business networking site, Ecademy.

Penny Power, who founded the network 10 years ago, told Recruiter that it chose to partner with CareerBuilder for its Career Advice and Companies Hi

Agencies criticised over too many unsuitable CVs
The managing director of Hays Resource Management has criticised recruiters on its preferred supplier list (PSL) for Abbey for submitting too many unsuitable CVs.

In response to a question from Recruiter at an event on how to use the web to promote your employer brand, Paul Mallinson, said t
Slowing UK economy will hit graduate recruitment
The UK economy is slowing and will impact on graduate recruitment, business economist Brian Finn warned the audience at the inaugural Targetjobs Breakfast News meeting in London.

"Recruitment advertising in general is highly geared to what is happening in the economy," said Finn, an analyst at Busine
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