Eight agencies shared the spoils at the 2009 CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards – but apart from the winners, there was really only one topic of conversation on people’s lips ... more
The Telegraph Media Group has relaunched its recruitment website following significant growth in users and application rates ... more
At 11:30am on Monday 29th June, it was announced that Barkers Group Limited had been taken into administration and that its business and assets had been purchased by Penna plc ... more
A ‘pre-pack’ deal is tough for other agencies, let alone the media, suggests Work chairman Simon Howard ... more
JWT INSIDE London has won the global employer communications account for Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Marine and Energy ... more
A new graduate market update from High Fliers Research shows that graduate vacancies at Britain’s top hundred employers have been cut by 28% ... more
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has launched new guidelines on employer branding to reflect the challenges that employers are facing in the recession ... more
New job-board launches and other news ... more
As is often the case, this month’s judges decided that licensed premises would be the best place to decide the fate of May’s Ri Fiver. Bernard Hodes’ creative director Andy Rigden and freelance art director Gill Sales had lots of good things to say about the entries: ... more
Reading-based Wave is approaching its 10th birthday and Ri5 headed along the M4 to meet founder David Jenkins and hear his story. ... more
From the economic, employer and graduate-specific perspectives, the latest TARGETjobs Breakfast News event seemed to offer a consensus that – hopefully – the worst of things may now be behind us ... more
Times may be tough, but the Small Circle is doing its bit for the industry by hosting its annual summer party on board the Regalia from 6pm till midnight on Wednesday 8th July ... more
The new book on employer branding from the Bernard Hodes Group was officially launched on the evening of Wednesday 24th June at London’s One Aldwych ... more
Monster has launched its Target SMS service in the UK to enable job-seekers to keep in touch with vacancies in real time ... more
TCS Media Recruitment, part of the TCS Media Group, is looking to distinguish itself more clearly from Barkers’ subsidiary TCS Advertising ... more
The British army is looking for a new digital agency to work alongside Publicis Modem, which will retain responsibility for the creative digital element of army recruitment marketing ... more
As we’re still evidently mired in the biggest recession for years, is it too soon to be thinking about recovery yet? And given that one expert’s green shoots are another’s false dawn, how can you really tell what’s going on? While we can’t claim to provide you with the definitive answers, we can update you on some of the factors that may be impacting on economic performance and, just as importantly, business sentiment ... more
An HR team from Disneyland Paris is visiting London next week as part of a pan-European recruitment drive. On 24th June, the team will be hoping to fill numerous positions in sales, hotel and hospitality. The only requirements are that candidates are at least 18 years old, interested in working for a multicultural company, and have conversational French. ... more
This was the burning question raised at the Recruitment Society’s most recent presentation, and in the event it received a pretty decisive answer ... more
Perhaps it’s a sign of the times that all but one of the case-studies on day one of the CIPD’s latest Recruitment, Resourcing and Performance Conference were drawn from the public or charity sectors ... more
Our latest potpourri from the world of digital recruitment ... more
On the strength of official data and comparisons with the downturn of the early 1990s, the TUC is warning that unemployment will continue to rise for many months even after the economy has started to pick up ... more
New research from Opinionpanel reveals that half of this year’s crop of undergraduates are seriously considering postgraduate study as their next move ... more
With unemployment currently at around 2.2m and the economy stuck in the deepest recession for years, the public sector is becoming an increasingly attractive career choice for many job-hunters, boosting traffic to Jobsgopublic in the process ... more
Brilliant HR Comms is adding to its office network. Having established a presence in Leeds and Manchester, the company now intends to offer full-service capability from Birmingham, ... more