... market to look for quality businesses. “I am working on more deals than at any other time since 1998,” Bissell told Recruiter . ... for higher value companies. “There’s definitely been more interest from buyers, mainly as a result of the sentiment that things have ...

... Pacific region increased to £137.1m (2007: £124.1m). More than two thirds of the group’s net fee income (67%) is now generated ... of improving and in some markets are becoming noticeably more difficult, with net fee income down 21% in the first two months of this ...

... a true strategic alliance with a client is significant, and more often than not, even the best recruiters can be found lacking. Here are ... partnership is to become a trusted partner, becoming more closely involved with the client organisation’s own decisionmaking ...

... better. The price of fewer expert instructions (for now) is more than balanced by the fact that expert evidence is now more independent, more valued and more cost-effective. Use of the expert can ...

... down to a shortlist and then to a hire. There will always be more people who don’t get the job than those who do. You have no choice but ... mindful of bias Accepting that bias exists is far more fruitful than trying to weed it out. It’s not realistic to ask a person ...

... self-employed workers operating through an umbrella company, more than three in five (61%) of those workers believe there are no advantages ...

... employers avoid having to make mass redundancies, in June more than 9 million workers were receiving 80% of their pay up to £2.5k a ... which are also CBIL-accredited. Alex Arnot, an adviser to more than 35 tech and talent businesses, says he is not so sure that the ...

... if the board wanted to outsource it. Procurement is a much more strategic, mission-critical area and people tend to fall into either a ... The antis have a list of cautionary tales that err more on the side of complete mess. Before it merged with Commercial Union and ...

... e-procurement. Purchasing cards taught us that people are more important than the technology.” Earlier this year, the National Audit ... there was some doubt about the cost savings expected. A more cautious approach to e-commerce systems is to become the norm, with a ...

... identified in the commission’s March 1998 action plan and, more specifically, formed part of the first stage of the commission’s ... the commissioner responsible for the internal market (and more particularly for public procurement policy), stated that “co-operation ...