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Monday We hold a recruitment team meeting every Monday morning to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of the previous week, and to focus on the week and months ahead.

Monday
I have already received several calls from consultants this morning telling me they have caught the latest bug and weren't going to be coming into work.

Early start and straight into Lycra for a brisk run to the office. I'm in training for our 'Three Peaks' charity attempt, and our office decathlete tells us we need to put in 30 miles a week!

Alasdair Moore, senior consultant, PeopleCo Worldwide

Monday
New week and a new month kicks off with a team meeting and an opportunity to reflect on a hectic end of month with its usual ups and downs.

Recruiters are still increasing their employee base, according to BDO Stoy Hayward’s review of the latest data outputs from Recruitment Industry Benchmarking (RIB).

Recruiters fulfil very different roles for the various generations in the workplace, according to a survey by Ipsos MORI, and they must not neglect any of these roles if they are to effectively trawl the talent pool.

Monday
After a really good buzz last week, this one started slowly. Ten minutes later the office explodes again. Look at notes from last Friday evening's fevered scribbling and decide to tackle a long-standing automation issue. Study Excel reports at length and gain throbbing headache.
Oh no! It must be two weeks non-stop rain now — unusual for Manchester... The gloom is lifted by a telephone call from a journalist with Le Monde, who has picked up on some comments I made about the value of management books as opposed to training.
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