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Business Advice: Pricing - what's your strategy?

Do the consultants in your business understand the the company’s service proposition?

8 March 2022

HMRC clarifies guidance on umbrella companies

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has updated its guidance on working through umbrella companies this week, with key changes focused on clarifying and refining the information.

The changes have come, it is suggested, following pressure from stakeholders and experts in the industry, including Crawford Temple, CEO of Professional Passport, an independent assessor of payment intermediary compliance.

30 April 2021

Cash flow issues have knock-on effect

More than 25% of recruiters are experiencing a increase in the number of days that it takes to get paid, compared with 12 months ago, according to the Q3 Recruitment Sector Barometer.

30 September 2020

Recruiter Reveals...IR35: Countdown to April 2021

Welcome to our first episode of Recruiter Reveals All!

The countdown to compliance has started, and there’s no turning back: the wildly unpopular Off-Payroll Rules for medium-and-large companies go into force in April 2021. In this half-hour podcast, Recruiter’s first, subject matter expert Dave Chaplin of IR35 Shield tells all to Recruiter magazine Editor DeeDee Doke about the ins and outs of what changes businesses need to make and the administrative potholes to watch out for before the deadline.

Legal 30 July 2020

Tips to protect your recruitment business from cyber attacks

Mike Ianiri, sales director at Redsquid, offers his advice to prevent your business falling prey to a cyber attack.

IT/Telecoms 14 October 2019

Four-point action plan for hard/no-deal Brexit

Winston Green, partner at Irwin Mitchell, outlines key issues that could affect recruitment businesses in the case of a hard/no-deal Brexit.

Legal 24 January 2019

What you need to know about divorcing your business partner

Karen Holden, founder of A City Law Firm, advises on divorcing your partner who also happens to be your business partner.

23 January 2019

Presentation pitfalls to avoid if you want to close more deals

Karen O’Donnell shows how you can help reinvigorate your sales presentations for the new year.

21 December 2018

How to give feedback on a bad bit of work

Emotions can run high when a member of staff has done a really bad bit of work, but in this delicate situation constructive feedback is important. Richard Foster-Fletcher provides a few tips.

26 October 2018

Agency recruitment careers

Why are we losing so much talent from the recruitment industry?
23 June 2015

Five ways volunteer organisations can teach businesses how to retain staff

Every day, millions of people give up their free time to work hard for organisations that don’t pay them a penny.
22 May 2015

The unexpected business benefits of collaboration

Many recruitment companies, large and small, are moving towards a more collaborative approach to business. Effective collaboration is much more than just ‘working together’ – it’s a strategic choice too.
27 April 2015

How recruiters can better engage with schools

While it might sound obvious, today’s school pupils are the future talent of tomorrow’s workforce, so working closely with young people at an early age is imperative in helping to identify future talent both as an employer and as a recruiter for clients.
Education, Public sector 27 April 2015

Top 10 tips on the importance of staff inductions

The interview process is a long journey. It takes a lot of time and effort to find the right candidates. But what’s next?
HR 23 March 2015

Writing an effective online recruitment advert

HR managers and in-house recruiters are under increasing pressure to ‘get recruitment right’ the first time – and we are all well aware of the implications of getting it wrong.
23 March 2015

Recruiters urged to focus on commission structures

Recruiters that are launching their own recruitment businesses must examine the ins and outs of the commission structures they set up to reward their teams, an employment lawyer has urged.
Legal 17 February 2015

Essential lessons recruiters can learn from Team Sky

Sporting teams are renowned for their ambitious, competitive and organised approach to success, and HR recruitment is no different.
HR 26 January 2015

Five top tips on investing in staff development

In an increasingly competitive environment, it is very important that companies of all sizes are able to attract talented staff.
26 January 2015

How to make a difference: embedding CSR at the core of your business

There has been a lot of talk about the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) within a company, in particular on how it is shifting from being an add-on to the business to becoming an integral part of an organisation’s strategy.
Executive search, IT/Telecoms 17 November 2014

The top five interview questions to ask when hiring for IT jobs

What’s the best way to structure an interview for your IT and technology candidates? Anthony Sherick gives his advice and an outline of the key five questions to ask.
IT/Telecoms 20 October 2014

The things I wish I’d known before starting my recruitment business

After working in finance for a decade, I wanted to start up on my own and create a company that would make a difference to young people, while drawing on my own experience of employment.
20 October 2014

Stress-related illness: how it affects the recruitment process

Stress-related illness is a major problem in the UK and is now the second most common cause of long-term sickness.
16 September 2014

How to avoid legal ‘skeletons in the cupboard’ that could scupper your exit

If you are the owner of a recruitment business looking for an exit in the next two or three years it important that you stand out from the crowd in readiness for sale or IPO (initial public offering).
17 June 2014

Top tips for protecting data on social media platforms

A recruitment company's competitive edge depends upon the quality and value of the business relationships generated by its consultants.
12 June 2014

Five essential questions to ask when buying a software solution for your global business

According to analyst Forrester, £2.3bn will be spent on IT this year, with the UK outpacing the rest of Europe in its uptake.
IT/Telecoms 20 May 2014
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