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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

Recruiting for a four-generation future

Today’s workforces are already fairly age diverse. According to our research, both HR professionals and employees believe that this is the case.

20 May 2014

Doublecheck references with social media

Employers are being urged to use social media to combat the problem of fake references. The advice comes from Keith Rosser, chair of SAFERjobs, the recruitment industry body tasked with tackling employment fraud.

2 May 2014

How to give ex-offenders a fair chance in the jobs market

On 10th March, the Government implemented changes to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) for the first time since 1974. This legislation limits the length of time for which ex-offenders are required to tell employers about the criminal convictions – i.e. before it becomes spent - for most unregulated job roles, when asked.

13 March 2014

What the Maritime Labour Convention means for seafaring recruitment

The coming into force on 20 August 2013 of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006 has led to greater employment protections for a large majority of the world’s seafarers, but has also led to greater contractual, financial and administrative burdens being placed on the shoulders of the world’s ship-owners, and in particular on the crew management and marine recruitment companies supporting these ship owners.

20 August 2013

Using crowd-sourcing to create organisational change

Barack Obama famously crowd-sourced the finance for his election campaign - a powerful example of the ability of new technology to create a great aggregate result out of lots of small voluntary actions.

10 April 2013

Six steps to buying recruitment technology kit successfully

The habit of buying and hoarding is not restricted to home life. I see it all the time in recruitment businesses too, where recruitment technology has been bought: to fix a problem, because their recruiters wanted it, or because the sales person gave them a great deal.  

10 April 2013

Top tips for staffing companies seeking finance

The reaction from consumers and businesses to the financial stimulus initiatives introduced by government has been under whelming so far. Yet, as we approach the end of the first quarter, there are grounds for believing there will be more finance available in 2013 than in recent years.

25 February 2013

Social media and the law

As the growth of social media continues, it comes as no surprise that the use of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter is increasingly posing difficult questions for recruiters. The social media phenomenon, particularly LinkedIn, is a double edged sword.

1 February 2013

Get the most out of your staff training

Many staffing companies have recently conducted staff reviews and identified individual and corporate training needs for the year ahead. If you are in this category you will probably be looking to ensure any investment in training pays, getting a return on your investment, whether that be time, money, or in many cases, both.

31 January 2013