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Healthcare recruitment: Castlerock Care Services defends agencies against NHS ‘overcharging’ claims
The recruitment industry has defended itself against claims made in the national press that it is charging the NHS excessive hourly rates when providing temporary staff.
Personal Development
The Anatomy of a Recruitment Career
It’s fair to say that most people in recruitment today didn’t plan to join the industry, but simply fell into it by chance. Ask most people, and they’ll tell you about their unusual and quirky point of entry.
Explode your business generation
Always call prospective clients utilising a Valid Business Reason - you will get through to more people, more often than by starting with a cold call approach. Here are three excellent reasons to ensure a hiring authority takes your call.
What is it that you really want?
Consultants struggling to stay motivated are often either not clear enough about what they really want to achieve or where they want to go, or they’ve assumed that in order to be successful they must replicate the motivations of other successful consultants or managers.
Putting candidates' credentials to the test
From basic checks on spelling and numeracy to more sophisticated testing of managerial tasks, skills testing can add value and enhance reputations. Sarah Coles investigates
Expert Advice
How can I attract private equity?
Investment from private equity sources is slim in this current climate. Yet the recruitment sector must be ready to attract investors back once the markets recover
The benefits of an overarching contract
Some employment agencies that have been engaging their temps directly as employees have put in place overarching contracts of employment to ensure that such contracts are legal. So what are the benefits of these types of contract?Traditionally, when engaging temporary workers to place with end-user clients, employment agencies have preferred to use a model whereby the temporary worker is engaged ...
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Surviving recession in Scotland
Recruiter travelled to Glasgow for its latest forum to find out about the situation in recruitment North of the border. Graham Simons reports on the discussion that took place.
In 2009, will the going get tougher?
Predicting what might happen in the industry is never an easy task, yet it is even harder in the current climate. Industry insiders offer insight into what might lie ahead
Recruiting all that jazz on Second Life
Up to 2,000 candidates attended the third Working Worlds Careers Fair in the virtual universe of Second Life, organised by Luxembourg-based GAX Technologies. Recruiter dropped in on the event where candidates and prospective employers rubbed shoulders in the guise of their computer-generated avatars in a space-age environment specially created for the event.
