Name change for sports agency
The Sportsweb Recruitment Agency has changed its name. It now trades under the Group name SRG.
Langham office for Origin Legal
Origin Legal has opened a new office at Langham, on the outskirts of Colchester, Essex.
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Four members of the Pertemps team in Birmingham spent a tough night "going into cellars in the pitch black, holding vigils in haunted bedrooms… having our hair pulled and hearing ghostly whispers in the dark".However, their ghoulish experience wasn't some sort of recruitment networking event for the
30 November and 1 December: National Engineering and Construction Recruitment Exhibition (NECR). Novotel, Hammersmith, London. 11am-5pm (30 November) and 11am-4pm (1 December). For further information, visit www.engineering jobs.co.uk.
17 and 18 January 2008: BMEGlobal Recruitment, Effective Recruitment and Retention Conference 2008.
Case studies, plus how to plan and implement effective recruitment and retention programs.
Radisson SAS Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. To register, call 34 93 265 6641
A British TV chef could have his US show, Dinner: Impossible, axed following reports that he lied on his CV.Robert Irvine said he was a friend of Prince Charles and helped make the wedding cake for his first marriage.
An exciting new era begins for Recruiter's Awards for Excellence, supported by Thomas International, with the launch this week of the 2008 call for entries.
The first development is that the application form has gone online this year.
What's the hot new trend in job hunting for the new year? Virtual recruitment fairs? Video CVs? No, it's far more groundbreaking than that. It's the two-page CV.
Accountemps in the US has revealed that the days of squinting to read 7 point Helvetica could soon be over, as 44% of recruiters prefer two-page CVs, compared with just 25% 10 years ago.
A US lifestyle coach claims that executives can cut the working week to four hours, by cutting out trivialities. In his bestselling book — The 4-Hour Workweek, coming to the UK next year — Timothy Ferriss suggests answering emails once a day, stopping internet use and cutting out all but the most essential phone calls.
Selecting the right candidate for the right job is at the heart of the recruitment process. So any help that recruiters can get in this key task should be welcomed with open arms.
Gordon Brown and David Cameron last week urged their MPs to disclose details of family members they employ and put an end to the controversy.The Prime Minister told Labour MPs to publish as soon as possible a list of relatives paid out of their allowances and backed a root-and-branch review of the c