Analysis

As MP Halfon bows out, where does that leave skills, training and apprenticeships?

With a nod to Lord of the Rings, Robert Halfon announced his resignation as minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education just before the Easter break.

Graduates/Apprentices/School leavers, Apprentices/Grads/School leavers 5 April 2024
Headshot Ed Pritchard - CREDIT - Annie Armitage

My Brilliant Recruitment Career: Ed Pritchard

Ed Pritchard is managing partner at Anderson Quigley

Executive search 16 January 2024

My Brilliant Recruitment Career: James Cronin

James Cronin is group commercial director at The Jarell Group

9 May 2023

Time for optimism – patience and demonstrable resilience will pay off

There are buyers around, but playing your cards close to your chest could pay dividends

9 May 2023

ANALYSIS: 2023 hiring trends for efficient high-volume recruitment

If the past few years have taught us anything, we now know the futility of trying to predict the future.

HR 8 March 2023

Insight: When optimism is too much

The toxic positivity problem for work environments.

6 March 2023

New year predictions for leaders

What are the top workplace predictions for recruiters and HR leaders over the next 12 months?

17 January 2023

EXPERT OPINION: ‘Quiet firing’ overtakes ‘quiet quitting’ as latest career trend

‘Quiet quitting’ has been the hot topic in the past few months, but ‘quiet firing’ is the new trend, as e-learning platform SocialTalent points out.

HR 8 September 2022

Putin miscalculates opposition but don’t underestimate his resolve

Even though Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has severely miscalculated the strength of Ukrainian opposition to his military invasion, the conflict has “the potential to worsen further”.

7 March 2022

Is unethical behaviour going unpunished?

The characteristics that keep the recruitment industry performing at its peak could be the very ones that encourage unethical behaviour, claims Dr Niek Hoogervorst
HR 22 April 2016

Taking talent under its wing

Bringing on future resourcing talent so they can really take off needs a regimented mentoring scheme, resourcing experts believe. Colin Cottell reports
IT/Telecoms, HR 15 March 2016

Agency recruitment careers: The Age of the Candidate

Recruiters, time to get candidate-centric!
HR 15 March 2016

Recruitment paradise from the dashboard light

Dashboards are helping recruiters make the shift to data-driven decision-making and increase their productivity. They also bring more transparency to key performance indicators (KPIs) and processes and, in some cases, help agencies to share good practice internally. Three firms, which have integrated dashboards into their daily lives, tell Sue Weekes how they are maximising their benefits
15 March 2016

Global mobility: Wipe away a tier

The government could soon decide to cut the numbers of workers eligible for intra-company transfers, which could have serious consequences for employers. Colin Cottell reports
IT/Telecoms 14 March 2016

Geared to success

Colin Cottell spoke with Gethin Roberts, managing director of driver recruitment agency Drivers Direct Recruitment, about his passion for the road
14 March 2016

Roundtable: An expense too far for umbrellas?

With the long-awaited new rules on travel & subsistence (T&S) expenses only weeks away from implementation, Recruiter brought together recruitment professionals from a variety of sectors to debate the implications at a roundtable event sponsored by Anderson Group and chaired by Recruiter editor DeeDee Doke
IT/Telecoms 18 February 2016

Game changers 2016

Welcome to the third annual showcase of Recruiter magazine’s Game Changers, featuring five products with the power and potential to radically alter the way we recruit. Sue Weekes looks at what’s behind them
IT/Telecoms 18 February 2016

VoIP: Speak easy

It’s hard to believe that Skype — a computer application for communicating over the internet using video or voice, whose name has even become a verb — first appeared on the scene back in 2003
IT/Telecoms 17 February 2016

Assignment Africa: Complex and evolving

When companies consider what it means to do business in Africa, the answer is often: “It’s complex.” But as a continent on the up, Africa has huge growth potential, so developing strategies to cope with that complexity is crucial
HR 17 February 2016

Ready to recruit with Pret’s apprenticeships

Ready to recruit with Pret’s apprenticeships
HR 16 February 2016

Agency recruitment careers: Stop doing what you've always done

Agency recruitment careers: Stop doing what you've always done
HR 16 February 2016

Responsive approach to candidates

Responsive approach to candidates
IT/Telecoms 16 February 2016

Recruiter FAST 50: At full throttle

Recruitment firms are achieving record levels of growth, this year’s Recruiter FAST 50 reveals. Marcus Archer and Mark Maunsell of Clearwater International look at what lies behind the figures
22 January 2016

Onward and upward

For Rob Walker, chief executive of the No.1-ranked FAST 50 firm, BIE Executive is the latest in a string of high-performing projects. His success is partly down to a competitive spirit but also remembering that recruitment is still all about relationships, he tells Colin Cottell
Public sector 22 January 2016

The Year Ahead - 2016

The Year Ahead - 2016
20 January 2016
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