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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
Jobseekers stay upbeat despite the credit crunch
Online jobseekers remain positive about securing roles despite reports of a labour market slowdown, according to a new quarterly survey carried out by the Hotonline Network.

The Job Pulse survey, a glance at job seeker confidence levels across multiple industries including finance, retail, secretaria
Major player enters the mobile job search sector
Readers of The Guardian can now search for a job while on the move by logging on to the WAP job site www.guardianjobs.mobi.
Spend less, sell more — Spring's success secrets
Peter Searle, chief executive of Spring, revealed his secret of improving cash flow — the "life blood of the company" and key to improving its bottom line to delegates at Recruiter's annual forum.

Searle described how a £3m investment in electronic billing and time sheets had increased the money in the company's bank
Google changes may see advert costs rise tenfold
Job boards and recruitment agencies could pay up to 10 times more to advertise online after Google announced changes on who could bid on Google AdWords.

Lewis Lenssen, managing director of Netizen Digital, a search marketing agency told Recruiter that currently job boards pay Google around 2p every time an internet us
Harness power of strong brands, recruiters urged
Recruiters can learn from global brands such as Coca Cola and BMW, Giles Thomas, a marketer with brand consultancy Branded, told an audience of recruiters at Mishcon de Reya, solicitors.

Thomas said that BMW's brand was all about the "performance of the vehicle", and informed everything that the business did, and this
Reduction in City hiring due to market conditions
The liquidity crisis in financial markets is starting to hit recruitment in the City.

Chris Croft, manager banking technology at Huxley Associates, told Recruiter there had been a slow down in hiring across the City, specifically in investment banks during the past two weeks.
Enterprising recruiters in the UK search on Spock
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.

Co-founder Bhatti told Recruiter that recruiters in the UK have used the site since day one of it
Strong support for audit standard for accountants
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.

There was agreement that such a standard would help recruiters choose service providers that were
Actics provides an online 'ethical reality' check
A new online rating tool can help organisations demonstrate their ethical awareness and social responsib- ility to potential employees.
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