Yes, you will pay your debts.

Posted on: May 15th, 2012 by admin in Opinion

Since I started 1st Growth – Total Back Office Solution I have had to suffer very little bad debt, but when it does happen it hurts even a small amount.   I expect that sometimes it cannot be helped and that directors/owners will do everything they can to keep a company going. However, what really gets [...]

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London job growth in the negative!

Posted on: May 11th, 2012 by Gareth in Industry, Technology

The  Monster Employment Index (MEI) UK has revealed that the midlands is experiencing the strongest growth in jobs advertised online, while London is in negative territory for the first time since December 2009.   The Midlands saw online opportunities up 15% year-on-year, with North England seeing 2% growth and East Anglia 1%, with the UK [...]

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LinkedIn Launches ‘Talent Pipeline’

Posted on: May 7th, 2012 by Gareth in Social Media

LinkedIn has launched a new product called ‘Talent Pipeline’ for its corporate recruiting customers which will be included as a free part of its existing Recruiter product.   Talent Pipeline allows recruiters to build and manage all talent leads in one place and potentially turn a simple lead into an active candidate.   Jim Schnyder, [...]

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Top Buzzwords in UK Job Ads

Posted on: May 7th, 2012 by Gareth in Industry

Job search website Adzuna.co.uk carried out a survey in March which analysed more than 500,000 UK job adverts. In total, 90% of job ads contain at least one of the 10 most commonly occurring ‘buzzwords’ identified by the survey.   ‘Passionate’, ‘motivated’ and ‘communication skills’ appear in over half of UK job ads. The full [...]

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Nine in Ten Recruiters Predict a Revenue Rise in 2012

Posted on: May 7th, 2012 by Gareth in Economy, Industry

A recent survey by recruitment software firm Bullhorn suggests that Recruiters across the EMEA region are optimistic about the year ahead.   The study shows that 88% of those in the industry believe their firm’s revenue will increase in 2012, and roughly four out of five respondents were planning to increase their headcount this year. [...]

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Hays releases top 10 list of skills demanded worldwide

Posted on: May 7th, 2012 by Gareth in Industry

Financial & budgetary, green skills and IT top the list of six hard and four soft skills identified by recruiter Hays as being at a shortage worldwide and therefore in high demand globally.   Charles Logan, director at Hays, explains: “We operate in 32 countries and these skills are the ones that our clients globally [...]

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The legal effects of AWR

Posted on: May 4th, 2012 by Gareth in Industry

The AWR have now been in force for over 6 months and so far it appears as though the significant preparatory steps my clients’ took have paid off as the practical issues they have faced arising out of the AWR have so far been limited.   As predicted some clients have not wanted to engage [...]

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The real effect of the Agency Worker Regulations

Posted on: May 2nd, 2012 by Gareth in Industry, Nurture (our newsletter)

Increasing legislation and regulation in the recruitment industry has had a fundamental impact on the practices and attitudes of consultancies over the last decade.   It is no longer possible to take a cavalier attitude to administration and processes, and the penalties for ignoring the latest new regulation – the AWR, have yet to be publicised, but we can [...]

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Recruitment increasing!

Posted on: May 2nd, 2012 by Gareth in Economy, Industry

We were told this week that the UK economy may be experiencing a double-dip recession after the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012, however, hiring activity is on the increase, according to the Reed Job Index. The number of new job opportunities available in April grew 7% year-on-year and the [...]

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Active Career Management

Posted on: April 14th, 2012 by Gareth in Nurture (our newsletter)

A few years ago when I started my career in HR the world was rather a different place.  OK – perhaps it was a little more than a “few” years.  But seriously, the approach you took to planning your next career move was very different.   I recall as I qualified reading the back pages [...]

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