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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 [...]
Continue Reading →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. [...]
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This week, David Rowat was fired from his job at Argos for taking to Facebook to have a moan about a bad day at work. Now, we don’t need to tell you that it’s inadvisable to badmouth your employer on social networks. It’s about as subtle as writing “I hate my job” on your forehead [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
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