The liquidity crisis in financial markets is starting to hit recruitment in the City.
UK recruiters are among the biggest users of the US-based personal search website, Spock.com (founded by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh), the latest beta version of which was launched this August.
There was unanimous support for an audit standard for accountants providing services to contractors, from members who attended the Association of Technical Staffing Companies' (ATSCo) September meeting.
A new online rating tool can help organisations demonstrate their ethical awareness and social responsib- ility to potential employees. 
The government's Managed Service Company legislation is still causing uncertainty and confusion, and is having the exact opposite effect to what was intended, the October meeting of the Recruitment Society has heard.
As the government looks at new avenues to move the long-term unemployed into work, creative recruitment businesses are already leading the way in guiding, or supporting efforts to guide, this population into the UK's talent pool.
Agency workers are unlikely to be deemed employees of the end user following the decision of a recent Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT).
Recruitment is the "best space" to be in if you are an internet-driven advertising business, said the director of online job source Workhound.