Tim Smeaton admitted to fellow recruiters that he made mistakes when struggling with the paradox of managing entrepreneurs and the need to build and simplify processes to make them "less people dependent".
On demand talent management system provider Taleo is joining forces with human capital solutions provider AIRS to help organisations develop a global 'pipeline' for sourcing talent. 
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that compulsory retirement at age 65 is permitted in Spain, in a decision that could have major consequences for the UK.Contract and permanent recruiter Capital International HR Solutions has appointed Nick Butcher as chief executive, taking over from Karen Silk, who remains on the board as a non-executive director.
Companies should be forced to admit security breaches when hackers steal sensitive information, according to one legal expert.
There was very little the recruitment agency that supplied one of the men convicted of Britain's biggest robbery could have done to stop him being employed, despite a police caution for shoplifting, according to employee-screening experts.
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.
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.
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