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I attended an APSCo members meeting last week and one of the items under discussion was a survey of 173 end user clients of APSCo members undertaken by Innergy. The survey, ‘Raising the Bar’ asked a number of questions around the reasons for using recruiters, what they wanted to see from recruiters and how they viewed them. The results of the survey showed that most organisations viewed recruiters somewhere between toleration and disgust. Hmm.
So what is the industry doing wrong – well according to the survey, end [...]
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I’m on on of my rants again I’m afraid.
OK so the euro zone is in chaos, the economy isn’t great and it looks as though we will have a few tough years before things get better. But do you know what? That’s life. In the good times, every person, every company and every country spent too much. Fact. So now we all have to take a bit of a hit and pay it back.
And while we’re about it I have to say that not every market is [...]
Continue Reading →PR works. Here’s an example: We secured an article in The Times featuring Antal International, a recruitment client of ours. The story
was on corporate giving and discussed their work with Chance UK, a children’s charity. Our client was naturally very happy.
You may think that’s where the story ends. But it doesn’t.
Chance UK got in touch with us recently to say that as a direct result of the article in The Times, they had received three new corporate donations totalling over [...]
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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 David Leyshon, MD of specialist technical and engineering recruiter, CBSbutler.
Q: Why do you use PR?
A: We use PR [...]
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The successful social media campaign
The company
Handle Recruitment is the leading recruitment consultancy for the media and entertainment industries. With more than 30 years’ experience, Handle has grown to encompass the wider demands of the increasingly complex media and entertainment arena. It is the only consultancy to have divisions dedicated to providing permanent, temporary, contract and interim solutions across all core business functions.
The challenge
BlueSky PR started work with Handle in 2010 with the brief of providing PR and communications support. Following [...]
Continue Reading →I have read many articles and blog postings about the candidate experience – hell I even wrote one myself bemoaning the bad service candidates get in terms of engagement and feedback.
However, as someone who has been involved in recruiting for our own organisation over the past few weeks, I have been quite literally gobsmacked at the poor level of effort, courtesy and basic communication skills displayed by applicants. We hear lots of stuff about how we need to really engage [...]
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The search is on…
A fantastic new opportunity has opened up at BlueSky PR for a great writer, account handler or media relations bod to take on a new challenge!
Who are we?
We’re a niche PR agency with clients in both the recruitment and business education sectors. On the recruitment side, we handle a variety of multi-sector recruiters at all levels and, on the business education side, we cater to the press needs of some truly prestigious, global schools.
We’re a small but [...]
Continue Reading →Ok – I know a lot of people will be throwing their hands up in horror but are we trying to put too many people through university?
I recently attended my son’s GCSE options evening and learned about the new English Baccalaureate. Students who receive an A* to C grade in English, Maths, at least two sciences, a foreign language and either history or geography will automatically be awarded the English Bacc. And why? Well no matter what the official line is, [...]
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I was listening, as usual, to the Radio4 Today programme the other day as I was getting ready for work. I had risen with a feeling of positive anticipation for the business year ahead. We’d had to work harder than ever in 2010 but our turnover and profit were up on 09 and our work pipeline was looking good with a number of new retained contracts being signed. And then on comes the grim reaper himself Robert Peston ( who I am convinced really works for the [...]
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