Innovation or Madness? New Recruitment company, Playfair and Noble, pay 50% of their fee to the successful candidate!
Do you ever get emails from companies looking to 'sell you' their company? Probably like you, I get a fair amount arriving in my inbox each week. So you could probably say that I am a little sceptical (too long in the recruitment world, I am afraid!!) So it was a really pleasant surprise to […]
A great new Twitter tool for job seekers - TwitterJobSearch
I came across this a couple of days ago, and it seems to have taken the Twittersphere by storm with its interest and simplicity!It is a web site called TwitterJobSearch and it is a fantastcially simple, yet brilliant, website for searching all the jobs placed on Twitter by companies and recruitment agencies alike.The screen shot […]
Are Job Seekers wasting their time with Recruitment Agencies?
Every day now there are seemingly endless amounts of people ending up in the queues at the Job Centres. Even today, the Government are trying to help the middle classes who have found themselves out of work in this recession, with special initiatives to help them find work. So, as someone who has spent their […]
Fixed Fee Recruitment RPO providers - shouldn’t they actually be called recruiting FARM’s?
As part of a large recruitment audit I am currently working on, I have had cause to look at the fixed fee recruitment providers, such as Webrecruit, Networx, Net-Recruit, Websearch and EasyWebRecruitment. The first thing to try and do was to understand what they are actually called and what they do. They are not […]
Should Companies use more or less recruitment agencies in a recession?
As we all know, the world has fallen apart, no one is hiring and the recruitment market is in total freefall, never to be seen again! Well that is what the media would have us believe anyway!! But the truth is really not as bad as it sounds. Companies ARE STILL recruiting and skill shortages […]
