Opinion
Are KPIs useful to businesses?
Key performance indicators (KPIs) force recruitment companies to sacrifice quality in a desperate bid to achieve financial targets. Having worked for two of the country's largest high-street agencies, I have personal experience of how this approach...
Published: 12 November 2008
Baa-ing to the Nanny State of Europe
With reference to your article 'Working hours', (recruiter.co.uk, 6 November), as grown adults we should all have the choice of how many hours we work each week. This is a wonderful example of Nanny Europe interfering with the way we all work. ...
Published: 12 November 2008
Christmas should be used to motivate
The article cancelling Christmas (recruiter.co.uk, 'Christmas cancelled', 28 October) highlights a rather introverted view which seems to be shared by a number of organisations. While financial prudence is a key ingredient during a recession, far-sighted...
Published: 12 November 2008
Malaise starts to spread
With the Q3 results season now coming to an end, it is clear that trading has been every bit as poor as expected. Michael Page flagged that conditions became progressively more challenging during the quarter as weakness in the banking sector spread....
Published: 12 November 2008
Web Chat
How dare the EU tell us what hours to work...
Published: 12 November 2008
Get ready for a tough 2009
After months of this column predicting a possible recession, it appears we are now at the beginning of a recessionary period that is likely to last until at least early 2010....
Published: 29 October 2008
Just how bad will it get?
It's now clear that the people who predicted that the UK economy would go bad were right. It will get bad....
Published: 29 October 2008
Not the time to start cranking up cold calls
These are unprecedented times in recruitment. Judging by the number of CVs received in the past few weeks from consultants who are the victims of cost reduction in line with revenue, logic would say that clients should be receiving fewer calls. Not so,...
Published: 29 October 2008
Obituary: Medical and General founder dies at 79
Juliette Menghuis, co-founder of the former Medical and General Employment Agency in London's Paddington Street, has died at the age of 79. ...
Published: 29 October 2008
Web Chat 29th November 2008
A vital role to play in boosting economy...
Published: 29 October 2008
All in good temp time
As the recession bites, recruiters are increasingly looking at innovative ways of managing the candidate supply chain to improve gross margins....
Published: 15 October 2008
Look outside your usual box
Rather than dismiss prospective consultants with backgrounds outside sales, such individuals may be the answer to your prayers...
Published: 15 October 2008
Not all it's cracked up to be
Colin Cottell...
Published: 15 October 2008
Petition all temp staff to show the benefits
Perhaps all employment agencies should ask their temporary workers to sign a template letter which states that they are extremely happy with their conditions and value the benefits that temporary work gives them (recruiter.co.uk, 'Labour Conference', 25...
Published: 15 October 2008
Recruiters can always turn to invoice financing
I read with interest the comments by KPMG's Alan Nolan in your feature 'Storm batters the minnows' (Recruiter, 17 September). ...
Published: 15 October 2008
Recruiters still needed in construction sector
McCall has noticed lately that some of the larger technical recruitment agencies have let some staff go (recruiter.co.uk, 'Construction recruitment', 25 September). ...
Published: 15 October 2008
Shares could be at lowest
An unforgettable few weeks for the UK economy and equity markets, which have been characterised by extreme volatility, banking collapse and, finally, aggressive government intervention. At times we have experienced echoes of the 1920s/1930s, as some...
Published: 15 October 2008
Soundbites 15th October 2008
Stephen Hagues Managing director, Foundation Resourcing...
Published: 15 October 2008
Confidence is everything
With words like Armageddon and meltdown used commonplace, putting the last week of financial turmoil in perspective is difficult. If banks won't lend to each other, the rest of our working economy is threatened and, given the global reach of the banking...
Published: 01 October 2008
Engineering lobby must make UK attractive
We welcome the inclusion of some engineering fields onto the Migration Advisory Committee's new list of 'shortage professions', which makes it easier for employers to recruit non-EU workers (Recruiter, 17 September, p7). ...
Published: 01 October 2008
