NHS struggles to recruit outside management talent

Dean Royles, chief executive officer of NHS Employers, the organisation representing employers in the NHS, was blunt last week in his assessment of the health service’s attempts to attract non-NHS talent into leadership roles.

Harris + Hoole recruitment: play to strengths

Tesco-backed coffee shop chain Harris + Hoole tells Recruiter it has adopted the strength-based approach to recruitment replacing its previous competency-based approach.

It’s not the device, it’s how you use it

In line with other support organisations, SThree decided to let staff use their own devices for work. Hornbill helped manage the initiative

In-house vs agency tension is alive

With reference to your article on 5 March (‘In-house recruiters should learnt from their agency cousins’, recruiter.co.uk) as a recruitment manager that has worked agency side, then in-house and just recently set up my own agency, I feel that there will always be a healthy tension between the two.

Regulations under the microscope — again

As the Conduct Regulations come under scrutiny again, is there any point in scrapping what we have in favour of self-regulation?

Apprenticeships Watch: EE, Ladbrokes and Sainsbury’s to recruit

Retailer Sainsbury’s, bookmakers Ladbrokes and telecoms provider Everything Everywhere (EE) are together pledging to take on more than 1,000 apprentices as part of new and extended apprenticeship recruitment campaigns.

Nationwide open to military talent with new jobs campaign

Nationwide Building Society is working with military veterans charity the Officers Association and the Ministry of Defence’s Career Transition Partnership to recruit ex-servicepeople into the banking group.