How undergraduates use recruitment sites

TMP Worldwide’s latest piece of graduate research, undertaken in conjunction with partners GTI, reveals some interesting insights into how undergraduates use recruitment sites, as well as identifying some of their principal likes and dislikes ... more or comment here

How undergraduates use recruitment sites

Personal service key, says Gradplus’s Cartwright

29/07/2010

As a director of graduate careers site Gradplus, Helen Cartwright finds herself deeply involved in every aspect of the business ... more or comment here

Ri Fiver July: call for entries

27/07/2010

The Ri Fiver year is half way through. Four agencies have claimed the famous trophies to date: Bernard Hodes Group (KPMG), Penna TCS (Orange), Stafford Long (Barclays Capital), and three for Tribal Resourcing (Ealing Foster Care, Haringey Council, and Wiltshire CC). ... more or comment here

Print still as popular as ever on campus, says GTI

26/07/2010

Although we’re now well into the age of new media, it’s interesting to learn that on-campus demand for GTI Media’s TARGETjobs careers publications has never been greater ... more or comment here

Tender: Education Leeds

28/07/2010

Education Leeds is seeking initial outline proposals in this market sounding exercise for the provision of a hard copy recruitment advertising service for Leeds schools. ... more or comment here

Undergraduates keen for work experience – on own terms

29/07/2010

A new survey of 18,000 students from TARGETjobs reveals that undergraduates put off by the idea of unpaid internships are still keen to gain alternative forms of work experience ... more or comment here

Talent attraction research from SMRS

24/07/2010

Last week, at a seminar in London’s Shoreditch, employer marketing agency SMRS launched new research covering some of the pressing issues of talent attraction to a wide range of HR professionals. ... more or comment here

New conference to focus on mobile and video

26/07/2010

The recruitment industry’s first-ever conference dedicated to mobile and video has been announced by online recruitment marketing specialists Web-Based Recruitment, organisers of two successful recent events focusing on social media in recruitment ... more or comment here 1 comment

Enhanced platform for Brand Republic Jobs

27/07/2010

Leading marketing, advertising, media and design job-board Brand Republic Jobs has moved to the latest version of Madgex’s specialist job-board software ... more or comment here

Jobmagic delivers ‘industry’s first social media-optimised job postings’

27/07/2010

Jobmagic, described as “the largest social media recruiting platform”, has introduced the industry’s first social media-optimised (SMO) job postings ... more or comment here

UK companies failing to profit from investment in people

27/07/2010

A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that US organisations are better than their UK and European counterparts at maximising the profits from their investment in people ... more or comment here

Employees still feeling impact of downturn

27/07/2010

A survey of 2,000 employees by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development suggests that any continuing move out of recession has yet to make itself felt in the workplace ... more or comment here

Good year for Milkround

26/07/2010

Milkround Online has announced excellent results for the financial year 2009-10, including more than 150,000 new candidate registrations and a 20% increase in visits to graduate recruitment site Milkround.com ... more or comment here

Lower costs, better quality: the promise of TMP’s direct sourcing model

20/07/2010

TMP CEO Andrew Wilkinson talks to Ri5 about the changes the recruitment market is going through and the plans that TMP has for exploring the business opportunities it offers. ... more or comment here 3 comments

Genius appoints Thayer as non-exec

21/07/2010

Genius Consultancy, the new Bristol-based recruitment communications business launched earlier this year, has appointed Betty Thayer – the former founder and CEO of exec-appointments.com – as a non-executive director ... more or comment here 2 comments

Over the moon, or sick as a parrot?
The Ri Fiver June result

15/07/2010

Freelance writer Richard Marsden and Wave creative director Mike Tamlyn bring in their verdict: ... more or comment here

Driving in Small Circles

22/07/2010

Ri5 made its long-awaited debut at the Small Circle on the evening of Wednesday 21st July ... more or comment here 1 comment

New chief executive for GMG

21/07/2010

Guardian Media Group has appointed its chief financial officer, Andrew Miller, to replace former chief executive Carolyn McCall ... more or comment here

Totaljobs barometer

22/07/2010

The findings of the latest Totaljobs barometer were revealed at a recent breakfast meeting in London’s Soho. Detailed statistical analysis of employer and candidate activity on the Totaljobs website (2.8m jobseekers per month, with around 90,000 live vacancies at any one time) revealed the usual mixture of encouraging and dispiriting news. ... more or comment here

Why UK employee engagement levels remain low

22/07/2010

A new white paper from the Training Foundation has concluded that UK employee engagement remains critically low because employers are generally “barking up the wrong tree” ... more or comment here

2010/11 RGCC launches

22/07/2010

This year’s Recruiters’ Guide to Courses & Campuses was launched by Work’s Simon Howard and Real World’s Darius Norell at the Design Centre on the afternoon of Wednesday 21st July ... more or comment here 1 comment

Digital shorts

21/07/2010

Although not that much of note seems to have been occurring during these sultry dog days of summer, we have pleasure in offering our latest brief round-up of developments in the digital recruitment space ... more or comment here

Applications to HE up by nearly 12%

19/07/2010

UCAS has reported an 11.6% rise in applications to UK undergraduate courses ... more or comment here

The importance of effective internal communications

19/07/2010

Two recent initiatives – one from the CIPD and one from Penna – have highlighted the key importance of ensuring that employees remain well informed about what’s happening in their organisations even when times are tough ... more or comment here

Onrec 2010 conference update

20/07/2010

Onrec’s sixth annual conference and exhibition is now just three months away – and there’s only a couple of weeks left to take advantage of the ‘early bird discount’ booking option ... more or comment here

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