1. News
  2. Lighter Side

Lighter Side

panthers elite sponsoreship. credit_daniel-owen.

Social recruiting: May/June 2025

Whether you’ve been trekking up a hill, making a team look brill, donating chocs to fill [a foodbank] or walking a mill-ion steps, you lot have been busy!

Construction & property, Charity & not-for-profit 7 May 2025

Our Melica turns out to be lukewarm rather than hot stuff on The Apprentice

Sorry to ruin your weekend, but recruitment’s representative in the BBC’s The Apprentice is no longer the red-hot business partner for entrepreneur Lord Sugar.

IT/Telecoms 20 March 2025

Are we banking on Melica for The Apprentice?

The BBC’s The Apprentice train rumbles on, and in the latest episode candidates were charged with delivering a banking app for children.

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 17 March 2025

Did Melica taste success in The Apprentice in Türkiye?

BBC reality programme The Apprentice sent the remaining candidates packing this week – to Türkiye.

IT/Telecoms 10 March 2025

Social recruiting: March/April 2025

From helping kids in care, currying favour with fellow recruiters to bee-hiving yourselves in the environment, you’ve been busy since the last Recruiter…

Public sector, Social care 4 March 2025

Social recruiting: January/February 2025

From sponsoring teams to giving kids sweet dreams, you’ve been excelling yourselves in the past year…

Charity & not-for-profit 21 January 2025
social network- maiden-1_credit_maiden-cricket

Social recruiting: November/December 2024

Through sport or giving up their time, recruiters continue to make a real difference since the last issue of Recruiter...

Charity & not-for-profit, Hospitality/Leisure 12 November 2024
kingston barnes

Social recruiting September/October 2024

Recruitment organisations continue to work with partners and charities to make a real difference since the last edition Recruiter…

Transport & logistics, Construction & property 10 September 2024

Social recruiting March/April 2024

Recruiters and staff continue to help charities. Here are some examples we’ve seen since the previous Recruiter…

Public sector, Construction & property 8 May 2024

Recruitment firms win prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

Three recruitment firms are among the 205 winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2021, joining a wide variety of companies, including truffle hunters, a ‘cutting tools and hole-cutting solutions’ organisation, a digital ski coach and a sex toy maker in being selected for the prestigious business honour.

29 April 2021

Four recruitment firms win prestigious Queen’s Awards

Four recruitment firms are among the 205 winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2021, joining a wide variety of companies, including truffle hunters, a ‘cutting tools and hole-cutting solutions’ organisation, a digital ski coach and a sex toy maker in being selected for the prestigious business honour.

29 April 2021

Recruitment firms win prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

Three recruitment firms are among the 205 winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2021, joining a wide variety of companies, including truffle hunters, a ‘cutting tools and hole-cutting solutions’ organisation, a digital ski coach and a sex toy maker in being selected for the prestigious business honour.

29 April 2021

Cheers! Here comes the best job in the world – probably

If you could visit all your local pubs, test them out and say which ones are the best – AND get paid for it – you would probably say we were winding you up.

Hospitality/Leisure 22 April 2021

Social recruiting Mar/Apr 2021

What have you been up to? get in touch!

23 March 2021

Social recruiting Jan/Feb 2021

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

Public sector, Charity & not-for-profit 25 January 2021

The ultimate stay-at-home role: slipper testers required

Snagging a job that keeps your feet nice and cosy is one thing – but finding one that can promise that and be done from home is quite another.

Retail 11 January 2021

New role attracts false eyelash wearers

A company is on the hunt for a new recruit to become an official ‘magnetic false eyelash tester’.

18 December 2020

ReQuire Consultancy brings Christmas to Salisbury’s children

Permanent staff provider ReQuire Consultancy in the South-West wanted to help the local community in what has been a tough run-up to Christmas.

18 December 2020

Social recruiting December 2020

From cycling in Derbyshire to leaping out of a plane over two miles from the ground, you’ve been busy fundraising since the last Recruiter...

Charity & not-for-profit 1 December 2020

Cocktail connoisseur or workplace bully? Two new roles to apply for

Are you a connoisseur of cocktails? Or perhaps, are you a (thankfully) out of work bully?

HR, Hospitality/Leisure 8 October 2020

US candidates reveal their hobbies and interests

If advising your candidates on preparing the perfect CV, what guidance do you give them to answer questions about additional interests, hobbies or the ‘Tell us about yourself’ cliffhanger?

2 October 2020

What music do recruiters listen to when working from home?

Recruiters, when you’re working from home, do you like a bit of Beethoven or a dip with Dua Lipa to get your toes tapping and the work running smoothly?

4 August 2020

Circle Select dives down for talent, but who is narrating the video?

Sir David Attenborough knows a things about the natural world, but he is not the first name that comes to mind when it comes to promoting a recruitment business.

Retail, Industrial/Manufacturing 30 July 2020

Opinion: office spaces will evolve into cultural hubs

A glut of articles and thought pieces have emerged on the death of the office, rejoicing in the huge saving that can be made by cutting real estate overheads. Yet thought pieces predicting the death of the office conceive of an office space one-dimensionally: as a neutral space for the completion of labour. 

Commercial & office support 16 June 2020

Opinion: office spaces will evolve into cultural hubs

A glut of articles and thought pieces have emerged on the death of the office, rejoicing in the huge saving that can be made by cutting real estate overheads. Yet thought pieces predicting the death of the office conceive of an office space one-dimensionally: as a neutral space for the completion of labour. 

Commercial & office support 16 June 2020
Top