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Guardian launches Grad Facts 2008

The Guardian launched its latest Grad Facts survey at the Royal Society of Arts on the morning of Wednesday 2nd July, revealing key insights into the attitudes and aspirations of the latest crop of finalists… ... more

New sites and services from TheBigChoice and Fledglings

Graduate careers site TheBigChoice.com and work placements site Fledglings.net will be unveiling their new websites, together with a new corporate brand, at this year’s AGR conference… ... more

Joining the conversation

Ri5 recently talked to Barkers’ head of digital Matt Alder about whether employers should be taking social networking sites seriously, and if so how they should go about using them… ... more

Recruiting in a digital world

Google’s Luke Mckend shared his thinking on this much-discussed topic with a packed Guardian Newsroom audience at the Recruitment Society’s June event, held on the evening of Monday 30th… ... more

ThirtyThree keeps performance art running

ThirtyThree’s Bristol office has made a key contribution to a new and critically-acclaimed work of art – surely a first in recruitment communications? ... more

Justice for Bernard Hodes

The Ministry of Justice has give its recruitment communications account to the Bernard Hodes Group, following a competitive five-way pitch. ... more

Tender: Radian Group Ltd

The group, which was formed in 2006 by bringing together the management of five established housing associations and a specialist care organisation, is seeking contenders for a two-year recruitment advertising contract (possibly with 3 one-year extensions) to provide services across the group. ... more

The month in HE

Our latest insight into what’s been going on in and around the graduate marketplace, including further allegations of ‘dumbing down’, universities’ growing reliance on foreign students and, of course, yet more on the widening participation debate … ... more

Local government HR ad wins May Ri Fiver

Yes, it’s true: a brief that in times gone by may have had creative teams running for cover, has come up trumps. Judges Mark Fones of TMP and Andy Holden of WDAD may not have been wholly convinced, but LawtonWare’s creation of the Dullton & Hive Council is a worthy Fiver winner! ... more

The month in employment

The latest in our regular series of trawls around what’s been happening in the world of work… ... more

Digital shorts

Bite-sized updates from the world of online recruitment… ... more

Hinds joins TMP

Jules Hinds has joined TMP Worldwide as general manager for the South West and Wales… ... more

Barkers’ survey boosts Prospects

A recent survey by Barkers has identified Prospects.ac.uk as the careers website of choice for job-seeking students and graduates… ... more

Last call for June Ri Fiver entries

With the year’s half-way point approaching, here’s another mouth-watering opportunity to enhance your agency’s trophy cabinet… ... more

2008 CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards: a good night all round

At the 2008 CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards held in London on the evening of Thursday 19th June, the fifteen awards were shared between no less than nine different agencies, with a further four contributing entries that made it to finalist status… ... more

Delivering to – and for – engineers

IET recruitment advertising manager Andrew Dingley talks to Ri5 about the state of engineering recruitment, detailing some of the new initiatives he’s implemented recently in the process… ... more

TMP’s take on innovative recruitment marketing

TMP Worldwide chief executive Andrew Wilkinson led a well-attended session on ‘effective and innovative recruitment marketing strategies’ on the opening day of the CIPD’s 2008 recruitment and retention conference… ... more

Market outlook? ‘Gloom, but not doom…’

At the opening session of this year’s CIPD Recruitment and Retention Conference, chief economist John Philpott ran through the headline findings of the Institute’s newly-published recruitment, retention & turnover report and proffered his views of how the rest of 2008 might pan out… ... more

Sweet success for Barkers

Barkers’ London agency has just won the graduate recruitment project for British Sugar… ... more

Anyone for Pimm’s?

Gradcracker, the recruitment website for graduate engineers, has come up with a refreshing offer for any advertiser who books a year’s campaign, starting in September. But hurry! You have to act before 21st June, 2008. ... more

ThirtyThree partners in new world employer-branding initiative

ThirtyThree is the UK partner in a new company that aims to deliver employer branding and employee communications services on the international stage. ThirtyThree chairman Andrew Young will also chair the new organisation. ... more

Digital first for Yell and TMP

International directories business Yell and TMP Worldwide have notched up a digital first in online resourcing by launching the UK’s first gadget ad to recruit potential candidates and raise brand awareness… ... more

CIPD warns on CV lies

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has responded to Sir Alan Sugar’s selection of an apprentice who admitted lying on his CV with statistics that should sound a warning to anyone taking the “everyone does it” thinking to heart. ... more

UK’s first recruitment comparison site to launch in July

Peoplecompare.co.uk, described as the UK’s first recruitment comparison site, is scheduled to go live in July… ... more

Recruitment hits the headlines

After an assessment centre lasting forever and involving innumerable tests and challenges on national TV, Sir Alan Sugar has chosen his new £100K pa apprentice. Meanwhile, Chelsea FC have used rather more covert methods to recruit their new manager, whose remuneration is rumoured to exceed £5m pa. And there’s new research too, suggesting that the average Briton aspires to a salary of just £38K pa. ... more

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