This isn’t an original thought, but it’s my spin on it. This week I met with a large number of recruitment agency directors at a UK Recruiter networking event. James Caan was speaking, and two other guys. No offence to the 2 other guys, one from Barclays Capital, I think, and the other was a...
As anyone who has spent more than five minutes as a recruiter will know, there are many aspects to the industry, and many different types of personality which work well in the space. I’ve been in several positions myself, from perm and professional contractor recruiter to agency owner, technology director, and very rarely, temp recruiter....
Right, Who can I slag off next? It seems that in order to take umbrage with certain groups of people, you need to be entitled to do so, by dint of having walked a mile in their shoes. To do otherwise, would be offensive in the extreme, as you clearly “don’t know what you’re talking...
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but I’ve been a recruiter since 1987. “I didn’t know that!” I hear you say. Yes it’s true. Up until a couple of years ago, admitting it in public was equated with being league with the devil, and greeted with a look of bemused disgust. And then of...
True story with a purpose. Years ago, I was recruiting for a client in Ayrshire, who needed a Design Engineer. As per usual I took on the job, quoted our fees, yada yada yada. During the process of sourcing candidates I networked through to a candidate who seemed to match the requirement perfectly. I approached...
Credit Control. No, bear with me, this gets interesting. This is the dullest blog subject ever, surely? Until, that is, you are waiting interminably for some tight-arsed penny pinching client to cough up money that has been promised for months. Then it gets absolutely vital. Worse still, when they outright refuse to pay, and dispute...
It’s a competitive world, and never more so than now. We all want our fair share, or at least what we think is our fair share. Employers want to attract better employees, candidates want to get better jobs, with more pay, and websites want more traffic. However, very few of us actually believe we are...
No not you, and I hope not me. I’ll try and keep this short, as there are already way too many blog articles discursively annotating the onward march of the social media phenomenon. Pop is indeed eating itself. In my view, the Network Effect, that is the key to the success of Linkedin, Facebook and...
So Geoff Hoon, Stephen Byers and Patricia Hewitt have been caught going for interviews, whilst currently in the employ of the British Parliament. None are presently Ministers of State, but all are serving MP’s with, presumably, a full workload until 6th May. With time running out on their current contract, these three have taken a...
“Whoah! Hold on a minute”, you say, “not all websites are suitable for that kind of personalisation. It won’t look professional to our clients, and will only encourage Rec to Recs and rival agencies to headhunt my best recruiters”. I’ve got news for you, your rivals, and headhunting agencies already know who all your recruiters...
