Anyone can be a leader, according to Scott Davies, Recruitment Agency Leader of the Year at the Recruiter Awards 2016.
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I have recently had the enormous pleasure and rewarding experience of hiring C-suite executives. Many times their skills and experience could never be condensed into two or four pieces of paper. So I pondered whether the CV is actually dead.
Economic growth is cyclical and, while good agencies will grow no matter how the wider economy is performing, there can be no doubt that growth is easier and less risky in a buoyant economy.
Social entrepreneur Stephen Carrick-Davies is a man who wears many hats. These include working within the non-profit sector as a freelance consultant and trainer, helping to run a successful community café – Hill Station – in South-East London, as well as being interim chief executive of the Inclusion Trust, a trust that focuses on young people who have been excluded – ‘pushed out’ – of mainstream education.
Three decades or so ago, Sue Cooper successfully managed to lose what she imagined was “one the safest jobs in the country”.
Asking recruiters to celebrate the fact that computer technology is on the verge of being able to make hiring decisions is much like inviting turkeys to vote for Christmas.
For a profession that prides itself on its people skills, the idea that such a fundamentally human judgement – matching a person to a role – could be made by a piece of software is borderline heresy.
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Information has always equalled power, but in 2016 it’s more accurate to replace the word ‘information’ with ‘data’. Sue Weekes investigates
Recruitment professionals from across the UK, Europe and as far afield as India gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Mayfair to celebrate an outstanding year in the industry. Hosted by comedian Romesh Ranganathan, who did a splendid job in presenting 29 awards accompanied by a thumping rock & roll soundtrack, the event was hailed as the best yet. Here are just a few snapshots of the evening’s winners