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This blog is to encourage debate and dialogue between the worldwide recruitment community - HR, in-house resourcers, recruiters and head-hunters. We actively welcome participation so please join the debate: we’re giving a 2GB Apple iPod Nano away every month to the most entertaining and engaging contributor.
Chinese Managers better than Western Managers?
August 1, 2008
We all know that China has the fastest growing global economy. According to a study by the Institute of Leadership & Management it also has a highly ambitious, sophisticated and commercially astute management population that poses a challenge to managers and businesses in the West. The survey of 327 managers in the UK, US, France and [...]
Bottom line on the Agency Workers Directive
If you still don’t know what this is all about - here it is in brief!
After 12 weeks of an assignment, temporary and contract workers will be granted the same working conditions and rate of pay as someone recruitment to do the same job on a permanent basis.
This is on the grounds of pay and [...]
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London’s Burning
The London Labour market is struggling to provide the skills we need to remain competitive, according to a fascinating talk by David Hughes, Regional Director of the Learning Skills Council at a recent REC forum.
London is a world leading centre in financial and business services and this success is due to the availability of qualified [...]
Your CV in 30 seconds
July 16, 2008
Write a brilliant personal statement (no empty adjectives that aren’t backed up – dynamic… etc)
Back it up with real evidence of achievement.
Edit it ruthlessly.
Don’t have an “all things to all men” version – be specific.
The reader wants to know “What’s in this for ME?” – bin or not bin?
Your covering letter or email should state [...]
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Boomerang Hiring
Boomerang hiring is becoming increasingly prevalent in the UK. We are seeing this trend ourselves, with recruiters returning to their old firms. We are also hearing of more and more recruiters being incentivised to include previous employees in searches, rather than considering that a lazy option.
Hiring former employees is an obvious solution for a savvy [...]
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Sunday Times Best Small Companies
We thought it would be helpful to list the recruitment firms that made it to the 2008 list. The rules are that they must have been in existence for at least three years and have between 50 and 249 employees:
2 Nicoll Curtin
3 Cobalt Recruitment
7 Jenrick Recruitment Group
11 Pure Recruitment Group
15 Macdonald & Company
18 The Chadwick [...]
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Age discrimination - by Alison Humphries
A significant number of people I know, whose primary role is recruitment, seem to be labouring under a serious misapprehension. They have been told that, under the new equality (age) regulations, they cannot differentiate between candidates on the basis of experience.
Contrary to common perception, the regulations do allow employers to retain service related benefits such [...]
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CIPD on recruiter relationships
In the latest CIPD report on recruitment, retention and turnover we get some clear opportunities for recruitment suppliers. A third of employers they surveyed said they didn’t possess a preferred supplier list (33%) and nearly six in ten fail to evaluate agency performance in a structured manner.
Practically all the participants thought that the quality of [...]
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