In-house recruitment

Availability continues to rise for both perm and temp candidates

November saw increased availability of workers for the ninth straight month of the year, countered by lingering economic uncertainty and hesitancy to commit to new hires.

11 December 2023
In Depth

11 most influential in-house recruiters

Welcome to the 11 Most Influential In-house Recruiters report.

12 September 2023

REC writes to Minister of State for Immigration over digital RTW checks

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has revealed that it has written to the Minister of State for Immigration expressing concerns over the new digital right to work (RTW) checking system.

Creative/Digital/Media, HR 22 November 2022

TA professionals flock to RecFest 2022

This year's RecFest drew thousands of talent acquisition professionals to the event.

Hospitality/Leisure 13 September 2022

11 Most influential in-house recruiters: 2022

Welcome to the nineth 11 Most Influential In-house Recruiters report.

13 September 2022

Dive in to the talent pool

A new report from The Forum for In-House Recruitment Managers (The Firm) suggests that while most organisations use talent pools to fill their roles, not many do it effectively

HR 11 July 2022

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 7-11 MARCH 2022

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Compass Group, The Curve Group, Walmsley Wilkinson

Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Retail 9 March 2022

NEW TO THE MARKET: 7-11 MARCH 2022

This week’s new launches include: Astute Technical Recruitment, Circular.io, Sterling, YoungOnes

Charity & not-for-profit, IT/Telecoms 9 March 2022

Recruitment drives and encouraging ex-offenders into employment

The Student Loans Company, BT and EE launch recruitment drives, while new employability boards aim to help prisoners obtain gainful work.

Public sector, Commercial & office support 8 March 2022

Immobility on careers sites lets down UK employers, finds Monster

UK businesses have not adapted to the increasingly mobile world and could be losing out on talented candidates, thanks to careers sites without adequate mobile optimisation, finds a survey from job site Monster.
IT/Telecoms 8 October 2013

Optimism highest since mid-90s as financial firms add 10,000 jobs

Financial services firms in the UK added around 10,000 jobs in Q3, and should add a further 2,000 by the year’s end, as optimism in the sector rose to the highest level in 17 years, according to a CBI/PwC survey.
7 October 2013

Jobs Watch: Multinational firms key in 1,000 call centre roles apiece

Two overseas business process outsourcing firms have pledged to create 1,000 jobs apiece in the UK through expanding their call centre operations.
Commercial & office support 7 October 2013

Hays Global Skills Index indicates tightening labour markets in most countries

An improving global economy means that 18 out of the 30 countries in the Hays Global Skills Index are experiencing skills shortages.
4 October 2013

How to make a recruitment song and dance over one employee quitting

Taiwan-based animators Next Media Animation turned a sensitive situation to their advantage this week - posting a recruitment video on YouTube in response to another that an ex-member of staff had uploaded to announce her resignation.
IT/Telecoms, Creative/Digital/Media 4 October 2013

Beer, tears, feet on desk and worse - top interview blunders from Foosle

We’ve all got stories of bad interviews or too-long-for-comfort pauses after a difficult question – but now comes a list of some toe-curling interview horrors from newly-launched job site Foosle.com, which is headed by an ex-senior director at Hays.
IT/Telecoms 4 October 2013

Accused in £1m Harrods fake jobs ‘scam’ had ‘no knowledge of fraud’

Court number seven at the Old Bailey yesterday heard evidence relating to an alleged £1m false jobs ‘scam’ involving fictitious jobs at Harrods.
4 October 2013

Broad joins Shazam Entertainment as head of talent

Ryan Broad has joined Shazam Entertainment as head of talent acquisition.
Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 4 October 2013

Tillman hired as Bandwidth Recruitment broadens to deliver IT services

Payments recruitment firm Bandwidth Recruitment has taken on Charlie Tillman as the director of Bandwidth Associates, its newly-launched sister company providing a range of IT services.
IT/Telecoms 4 October 2013

Ryanair to appeal €8m French ruling over labour practice

Budget airline Ryanair is to appeal €8m (£6.7m) in fines and damages imposed on it yesterday (2 October) in a French court over alleged non-payment of social insurance and state pension contributions in France.
3 October 2013

Global career opportunities a key attractor as TripAdvisor looks to hire

Promoting the ability to progress internally and move into leadership positions with teams across the world is key to travel site TripAdvisor as it embarks on a hiring drive, a company spokesperson tells recruiter.co.uk.
IT/Telecoms, Creative/Digital/Media 2 October 2013

BLOG: Feeling sorry for Lucy Adams

I feel a tad sorry for Lucy Adams, the maligned HR director (HRD) at the BBC. Her job circumstances are difficult enough but publication about her marital status must have made her cringe. Other coverage suggests that ‘she has killed off the HR profession’. What drivel!
HR 2 October 2013

2014 is festival year for in-house recruiters

The FIRM (Forum for In-house Recruitment Managers) is to put on a two-day in-house recruitment festival next year in Hampshire’s New Forest.
2 October 2013

Jobs abound: Poundland looks to open 500 new stores to double network

Discount retailer Poundland has announced major plans to double its network of stores to 1,000, a move which would create a substantial number of jobs, as other UK retail chains also look to hire.
Construction & property, Engineering 2 October 2013

Fairsail chosen to streamline HR and recruitment for United Allergy Services

HR and workforce collaboration solutions provider Fairsail has been selected to provide HR, human capital management and recruitment process streamlining for United Allergy Services (UAS).
IT/Telecoms, HR 2 October 2013

Combat cyber-security by recruiting ex-hackers

Nearly two-thirds of IT professionals believe that the solution to tackling cyber-security would be to hire ex-hackers, according to research by IT recruitment specialists CWJobs.co.uk.
IT/Telecoms 27 September 2013
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