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REC chairman Gary Irvine co-chaired Recruiter's Forum last month. He is from Northern Ireland but doesn't quite have the same comic timing as his compatriot Frank Carson. By his own admission, he fluffed the punchline of a joke. As Carson might say, "It's the way I tell 'em."

Good-lookers need only apply

A Polish businessman has started a row after opening a nationwide chain of cafe-bars and promising to employ only sexy waitresses.

Henryk Jankowski, who plans to open a chain of 16 cafe-bars across Poland, says: "Ugly women need not bother applying to become waitresses in my cafes.

Big Brother's Lesley bows out

Unfortunately, our predictions regarding the staying power of our very own Ambassador of Recruitment have come true and ex-headhunter Lesley Brain has left da house (the Big Brother one, that is).

Inspiring interview techniques

Pascale Vernetti, who describes himself as an "independent assessor on large recruitment campaigns", has clearly had enough.

Vernetti emailed the Recruiter newsdesk to share his grief at the behaviour of some of his candidates — and some of his examples are amazing.

These include one candidate who kept his anorak and rucksack on throughout the entire interview, and the cabin c

Charity begins with the wedding

When it came to celebrating the 29 April nuptials of Hill McGlynn international director Peter Marston, the wedding gift register at John Lewis probably was not the best place to start hunting for the perfect present.

Peter and his lovely fiancée, now wife, Karen wanted something extra special.

Fishing for the right equipment

Job board giant fish4jobs is renowned for the technology used on its website and earlier this month it invited representatives from advertising agencies to reveal its new advancements.

The technology on show was literally astounding.

How do i make 25 staff redundant?

We have been told by our head office to cut costs by £1 million by the end of the month, and that we have to do this by letting staff go. This means losing 25 members of staff! What do we do?

How to get a brand and get ahead

In an increasingly competitive industry, how easy is it to differentiate your recruitment company from all the others?

Q&A: Can you make e-auctions work?

If e-auctions work for the supply of goods, then why not the supply of temporary labour?

To gain enlightenment, buy my book

Guidance on all things 'human resources' comes from many different sources, it seems.

Hence the diverse range of speakers at last month's Human Resources Development conference run by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

However, one speaker stood out at the conference more than most… a certain Ajahn Brahmavamso, a Buddhist monk, who dispensed wisdom on 'Workplace Ha