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Recruiters of interim managers should adopt partnership approaches with their clients to achieve better results.

That's the view of Tony Evans, chairman of the Institute of Interim Management, who spoke at last month's meeting of the Recruitment Society.

Evans told members that an increasin

UK businesses' use of recruitment agencies fell again last year, with expense cited as the main turn-off for companies, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's latest study on recruitment, retention and turnover.

The survey of 905 employers found that 73% of businesses still used recruitment agencies in 2006, which is down from 76% in 2005.

The report's au

Recruiters are carrying out detailed checks with umbrella companies and other tax scheme providers to ensure that they are compliant with the new tax legislation relating to managed service companies (MSCs).

Nurses are losing out on pay due to a staged wage increase, claims Kate Harris, commercial director of healthcare recruiter Pulse.

Harris says that health secretary Alan Johnson's proposal of a pay-rise for the lowest-paid staff in the NHS is not as positive as it might first appear, particularly fo
Fish4jobs revealed a raft of developments when it met with advertisers to dispel rumours that it is in trouble after its shareholder Northcliffe Media pulled out.

Chief executive, Joe Slavin, told the London meeting earlier this month: "We keep hearing rumours that we are in trouble but we aren't.
Benchmark, the specialist executive search consultancy, has appointed the former chief of the general staff of the British Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, as non-executive chairman.

General Sir Mike will act as a mentor strategist and senior consultant in the aerospace, defence and security practice,

JobTonic's recently announced partnership with social network MyNeighbourhoods is yet more evidence of the importance the recruitment industry is placing on social networking websites to attract candidates.

Nick Goldstein, general manager of the referral recruitment website, saw MyNeighbourhoods m

The next generation of websites are using new technology to bring employers, recruiters and candidates together anonymously over the internet.

Providers claim these anonymous headhunting systems could revolutionise online recruitment by reducing the cost per hire and enabling a far more targeted approach.

StaffCV has launched a global system called QuietAgent that is now experiencing
JobsOnRadio is a new web site that will allow job seekers to listen again online to radio recruitment advertisements that they may have missed the details about.

The JobsOnRadio site, created by advertising specialists Radio Works, allows recruiters to post their recruitment adverts on the web and ga
Helen Reynolds, the REC's acting chief executive, said her first priority when she took on her new role last month was to "give staff the confidence that things weren't going to change".

Reynolds was thrust into the trade body's top staff job following chief executive Marcia Roberts' decision to step
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