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At the recent Recruitment Agency Expo we ran a competition to win a remote control helicopter. Thanks to everyone who popped by our stand and entered their details. We have now picked the winner at random and are pleased to announce that Kay Ajayi from Quant IT is the lucky recipient.
We’ll be in touch soon to arrange delivery of your prize, Kay. And to everyone else, thank you once again and if you didn’t manage to see our presentation on [...]
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Making the most of networking events
The company
Ochre House is the leading international partner for recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and strategic talent management. It works with many of the world’s ambitious companies to build organisations that are truly talent centric.
The challenge
With a wide range of contacts in the HR profession, Ochre House set up an HR Network in 2001 which provided opportunities for industry leaders to share their knowledge and learn from each other. This HR Network has developed over the [...]
Continue Reading →For some recruitment businesses, the decision to undertake PR can be a hard one. Recruitment is hugely results driven and ROI is easily measurable. PR is different, and it can take some time to see results. With this in mind, we thought we’d feature a Q&A in each newsletter with a recruiter who uses PR, and why they do so.
This edition we speak to Maggie Berry, Managing Director of Women in Technology.
Q: Why do you use PR?
A: We use PR [...]
You only have to glance online to hear nightmare stories of poor customer service, and like most of us I have had my fair share. Only last week I had the ‘pleasure’ of flying Ryanair and experienced its awful service. Whilst I understand the phrase ‘you get what you pay for’ – surely speaking to customers with no respect, or worse still, rudely shouldn’t happen regardless of whether you are flying on a low cost airline?
On my way on to [...]
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After a week recuperating from surgery, I’m back working. The difference though is that due to being unable to drive I’m working from home. Of course, this is not unusual; plenty of people work from home permanently or from time to time. Whilst I have worked from home on the odd occasion, most recently when the snow caused chaos to the road networks – it is not something I usually do.
A few people I know have commented on how lucky [...]
Continue Reading →Well we’ve had a great start to 2011 – plenty of new business has arrived on our desks and now we have some exciting news to share with our readers! We are pleased to announce our partnership with Starr Tincup, a marketing consultancy specialising in the HR and other niche markets.
We’ve been providing PR and communication services to clients for almost ten years now, and by partnering with Starr Tincup we will be able to further expand our offering on an [...]
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I recently spent a day at one of our clients discussing their use of social media and how to get the whole team involved. And a great day it turned out to be, with an enthusiastic team all positive about the social media being utilised and with some great ideas going forward.
But what happens if your team don’t get involved, don’t see the point or there is conflict over who should be involved? A recent survey featured in PR [...]
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