Social recruiting Jan/Feb 2021

From donating Christmas gifts to funding nurses for vets, you’ve started the new year off in good style!

Athona gifts pressies to NHS staff

Brentwood-based recruitment agency Athona Recruitment dropped the usual ‘secret Santa’ among colleagues and instead donated Christmas presents to Brentwood Community Hospital as their way of saying ‘thank you’ to the NHS (above).

 

VetFinders sets tails wagging with its support

As well as donating funds to two veterinary nursing students – Jessica Graham and Larissa Lawlor at the Askham Bryan University Centre in York – specialist vet recruitment agency VetFinders has launched a new charitable initiative with the Blue Cross. Billed as ‘A dream job for you; a Blue Cross nurse paid for too’, the initiative means that every time VetFinders successfully places a candidate, it will donate a portion of the commission to the Blue Cross animal charity to cover the cost of one day of a vet nurse’s wages. It’s certainly set our tails wagging!

 

ICM helps clean up at Nightingale Hospital

Recruiters have had to adapt and respond quickly to its environment, and that’s exactly what the Hayes, Middlesex office of ICM Pro Logistics is doing. Usually specialising in placing temporary and permanent candidates across driving and logistics positions, the recruiter is now a preferred supplier for the London Nightingale Hospital, finding roles from cleaners, hosts and porters (mortuary trained), to admin and schedulers. “We never planned on having a recruitment business based so largely on cleaning roles, but essentially, it’s what we have temporarily become!” said a spokesperson for ICM.

 

Gap personnel team give hope to Fanconi charity

Recruitment firm gap personnel group has raised £800 to help two young brothers diagnosed with the same rare and life-limiting disorder. Zach (6) and Finley (8) Jones both have the serious blood disorder Fanconi Anemia (FA). However, thanks to Vicky Harris, Gina Deehan, Neal Rodgers, Damian Burdin, Terry McCormick and
Stuart Dow doing 5km, five days a week for five weeks, the money raised will go to the Fanconi Hope charity to help families and research into the disease.

IPS faces £900k penalty for failing to co-operate with HMRC

A tax avoidance promoter whose schemes were used by locum doctors and nurses faces a £900k penalty for failing to co-operate with HM Revenue & Customs, the tax authority announced today [22 March 2024].

Legislation 22 March 2024

NHS partnership collaborates with specialist recruiter to reduce locum GPs

A new partnership aims to bring 1,000 senior doctors for the NHS to help the shortfall across the UK.

Contracts 13 March 2024
ceo founder lynis bassett and MD naomi howells

Social recruiting March/April 2024

Recruiters and their staff continue to donate money and time to charities. Take a look at a few of the many examples we’ve seen since the previous Recruiter

Lighter Side 4 March 2024
Smiling Young Businesswoman Shaking Hands With Female Executive At Job Interview-Image credit - Shutterstock-1376251985

Better Hiring Toolkit offers best practice resource for local authorities

A new toolkit aims to offer local authorities essential guidelines for better recruitment., with the uncovering of the highly controversial

4 March 2024
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