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The Recruiter Wealth Forum conference took place on 30 October at the Twistle Victoria hotel in London, with some of the industry's leading recruiters speaking at the event.
A new registration scheme for 200,000 domiciliary care workers, due to be launched next year, will bring benefits to recruiters in the sector, a Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) conference has heard.

Mike Wardle, chief executive of the General Social Care Council, told the audience at '
The volume of information arising from the growth of the internet and technology is actually more of a problem to researchers, argued Karen Blakeman, founder of RBA Information Services.

Blakeman, speaking at the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) Summit for researchers and associates
Pertemps and the CBI are calling for the government to resist EU moves to resurrect the draft Agency Workers Directive arguing that the directive, which proposes putting agency workers on an equal footing with permanent employees after just six weeks on assignment, will undermine the flexibility of temporar
Pay rates for agency staff have fallen significantly as a result of electronic auctions (e-auctions) run by the NHS's Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA), and this is making it difficult for national framework agreement recruiters to attract staff, according to two of the country's biggest medical recruiter
A communist history, in which consumers had limited choice to exercise in deciding which products they wanted to buy, has left China short of marketing specialists.

However, China is just one Asian country suffering a severe lack of such talent, according to the chief executive officer for Europe and

Or is the government working to shut down the UK market for temporary workers?

It costs hospitality and leisure recruiter Berkeley Scott around £62,000 every time it loses a member of staff working on the permanent side of the business, the company's chief executive John Rose told the Perriam and Everett Annual Staffing Review.

Speaking after the event, which was held in London
Neutral vendor de Poel plans to expand into all sectors next year, it told partner agencies at its conference at the end of November.

The independent managed service provider, specialising in both temporary and permanent agency labour recruitment, said it has won 11 contracts worth £58m since May.
Small driver agencies say rising oil and energy costs are squeezing independent recruiters' margins and hitting cash flows, suggesting smaller operators are beginnning to struggle to pass on the cost of the increase to consumers.

Andrew Briggs, managing director of independent Smarter Recruitment, wa
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