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The end? Or new beginnings?

02/09/2010

Graeme Wright’s opinion piece (“The end of recruitment advertising?”) has attracted some of the best comments so far received at Ri5, from a variety of people and from different parts of the world. You can click the link to read everything and join in. Alternatively, here are extracted highlights (preceded by our own précis of the original): ... more or comment here

Tomorrow’s recruitment world

02/09/2010

The latest meeting of the Online Recruitment Marketing Council took place on Tuesday 31st August, at The Guardian’s Kings Place offices. There was a good turnout to hear Matt Alder of MetaShift (pictured) speak. His theme was New Technology: what next in recruitment applications. ... more or comment here 3 comments

Prospects strengthens NUS link

31/08/2010

Graduate Prospects has strengthened its ties with the National Union of Students through the launch of Graduate Extra, a new discount card for recent graduates ... more or comment here

The month in HE

31/08/2010

Our latest trawl through recent graduate market developments, statistics and opinions ... more or comment here

Monster developments

25/08/2010

Monster has completed its acquisition of HotJobs, and also entered into a three-year commercial traffic agreement to become the exclusive provider of career and job content on Yahoo!’s North American homepages ... more or comment here 2 comments

The end of recruitment advertising?

25/08/2010

Graeme Wright sent us a recent blog in which he posits a bleak future for brand-based recruitment advertising. Not everyone will agree with Graeme’s conclusions, but everyone who is interested in a fair, open and inspiring marketplace for jobs should think long and hard about what he has to say. ... more or comment here 29 comments

Ri Fiver August deadline

27/08/2010

The summer may be cooling down but competition for the Ri Fivers is as hot as ever. Closing date for the August event is Tuesday, 31st August at midnight. and judges for the month will be writer Philip Clarke (CD at WDAD) and the freelance art director, Colin Hood. ... more or comment here

Tender: Nottingham Trent University

25/08/2010

Four-year framework agreement covering recruitment advertising and marketing services, worth c. £925K pa (excl. vat). ... more or comment here

TES grows circulation by nearly 15%

25/08/2010

Against a prevailing climate of falling print circulations, the TES has managed to buck the general trend by recording 14.5% circulation growth over the past six months ... more or comment here

Domestic skills shortage fuels demand for migrant workers

23/08/2010

The latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey reveals that demand for migrant workers is on the rise as UK employers struggle to fill skilled vacancies despite the high unemployment rate ... more or comment here

Recruitment market update

23/08/2010

Ri5’s latest overview of recent developments in the UK recruitment marketplace ... more or comment here

Improvements to ENDSjobsearch

25/08/2010

ENDSjobsearch, which focuses on the environment, conservation, ecology and sustainability sectors, has become the fifth Haymarket Business Media specialist jobsite to move to the latest version of Madgex’s specialist job-board software ... more or comment here

Concerns grow over youth unemployment

23/08/2010

Research suggests that more than a third of young people who leave school with no qualifications are “on the employment and education scrapheap” ... more or comment here

New head of employer branding for RBS

23/08/2010

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has appointed Nimai Swaroop to the new position of group head of employer branding and marketing ... more or comment here

Tender: Hampshire public notices

24/08/2010

A consortium of councils in Hampshire/IoW intends to introduce a county-wide e-portal for public notice and other advertising and to establish formal agreements with paid and free press covering the local area. ... more or comment here

Ri Fiver July: judgement twitter-style

16/08/2010

Chris Bennett of DNA and Justin Ballantine of ThirtyThree used the tweet channel to reach their verdict this month. So - succinct comments (never more than 140 characters) on the month's excellent entries: ... more or comment here 7 comments

July online activity: Europe maintains growth but UK falters

17/08/2010

Monster’s European employment index recorded its sixth successive monthly rise in July, but the UK index declined slightly as online recruitment activity eased slightly ... more or comment here

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

13/08/2010

The age-old question of 'who guards the guardians?' originally referred to people who were entrusted with overseeing the moral welfare of women, in early Christian Rome. Mark Cartmel and Mike Roberts (ex-Barkers and ex-TMP respectively) are now using the phrase to describe their new venture in recruitment media auditing. ... more or comment here 8 comments

Unsuccessful university applicants advised to gain more experience

19/08/2010

With almost two-thirds of a million applicants hoping to gain a full-time undergraduate place this autumn, record numbers look set to face disappointment – and the general message to them seems to be, broaden your experience before applying again next time round ... more or comment here

What next in recruitment applications?

16/08/2010

Technological advances and, more pertinently, applications are the subject of the next Online Recruitment Marketing Council event on Tuesday 31st August, when MetaShift founder Matt Alder will look at the range of options open to recruitment practitioners and consider how the recruitment landscape is likely to develop in the future ... more or comment here

Autumn conferences focus on employer branding and social media

16/08/2010

News of two more forthcoming conferences in London – an employer branding summit at the Canary Wharf Hilton on Thursday 16th September, and a UCAS event focusing on the use of social media in marketing HE institutions at the Hotel Russell on Monday 18th October ... more or comment here

Why bright A-level leavers are heading straight for work

16/08/2010

With record numbers of university applicants likely to be disappointed this year, major employers are reporting burgeoning interest in their non-graduate entry-level schemes ... more or comment here 2 comments

Extend internships to NEETs, says think-tank

18/08/2010

In a new report published by the Foyer Federation, think-tank Demos calls for the extension of “quality internships” to disadvantaged young people ... more or comment here 3 comments

Ri5 profile:
Graeme Wright

09/08/2010

As head of research at Work Communications, Graeme is in the vanguard of new recruitment thinking. Interesting then to consider his background, influences, and interests. And our most surprising "surprising fact" to date ... more or comment here 7 comments

Lee & Nightingale ceases trading

12/08/2010

The Chester-based recruitment advertising and statutory notice agency Lee & Nightingale ceased trading with effect from last Friday (6th August) ... more or comment here 1 comment

Graduate recruitment from the careers service perspective

10/08/2010

Anne-Marie Martin is director of The Careers Group, University of London. In August she’ll also be taking up the presidency of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services – quite a challenge, given the financial squeeze currently being applied to higher education in the UK. Ri5 took the opportunity to hear her views on the way the graduate recruitment has changed, the value that careers services can provide for employers, and her vision for taking AGCAS forward ... more or comment here 1 comment