Interviews

One year on – Penna Recruitment Solutions

Exactly a year ago Penna reorganised its resourcing activities, creating a new Recruitment Solutions business under the leadership of Julie Towers in the process. Ri5 returned to find out how the first year had gone, talk to some of the key players involved and enjoy a celebratory slice of cake ... more or comment here

An education – the switch from agency to media

While it’s not that unusual to hear of recruitment media folk joining ad agencies, the road in the opposite direction is rather less travelled. But Jerry Taylor, a well-known figure in the recruitment communications industry, recently opted to make this contra-flow move, so Ri5 caught up with him to find out more ... more or comment here 4 comments

Power to the People

Euro RSCG Riley has just rebranded itself as Euro RSCG People. A change of name, or a change of emphasis? Ri5 met up with CEO Rupert Grose and Gareth Edwards (MD, Attraction & Resourcing) to find out more ... more or comment here 5 comments

AGR conference season gets under way

Over the next few months, the Association of Graduate Recruiters will be holding not one but three conferences – “definitely gluttons for punishment”, as the organisation’s chief executive Carl Gilleard puts it – culminating in the annual flagship event at Celtic Manor. Ri5 caught up with him to find out more about what’s in the offing ... more or comment here

aia: at home and abroad

Six months ago, aia worldwide moved from its well-loved but cramped Farringdon home of 20 years, to the dizzy heights and sumptuous views of 200 Aldersgate Street, near the Barbican. Ri5 was invited up to the 12th floor, for a progress report and other news from managing director, Andrea Burrows, and head of graduate solutions, Darren Harris. ... more or comment here 1 comment

A rounded approach to people comms

This month, Blackbridge Communications celebrate their seventh birthday. People communications have always been at the heart of the agency’s business, and digital is naturally playing an ever increasing part in the development and implementation of effective client strategies. Ri5 caught up with digital strategy director Robert Newham to find out more ... more or comment here

How to monetise more than 100 million unique profiles

It’s quite an enterprise that thesocialCV.com is engaged in – nothing less than mapping the entire global workforce, in fact. Ri5 talked to Jonathan Cooney, commercial director at WorkDigital/Incisive Media, to find out more about how things are progressing ... more or comment here 2 comments

McQueen on the move

Independent design and marketing agency McQueen has had a very good 2011, with a hat-trick of new business wins in the summer and an imminent move to more spacious premises in prospect. Ri5 caught up with its eponymous MD, Hugh McQueen, to find out more ... more or comment here 2 comments

Attracting the IT crowd

By online recruitment industry standards, Richard Nott has been at CWJobs for quite a while now – some twelve years, in fact. Ri5 put the questions to him recently at the job-board’s London HQ just off Oxford Street ... more or comment here

Print still potent, says Playford

Reports of the death of print recruitment advertising seem to have been exaggerated, at least as far as the FT is concerned. Financial Times Recruitment Solutions’ MD Steve Playford explained to Ri5 how print is still playing a very useful role, albeit in the context of multi-platform solutions ... more or comment here 6 comments

Prescient or what?

Seven years ago, two leading industry figures – Guardian Jobs sales director Helen Bird (pictured) and TMP Worldwide chief executive Andrew Wilkinson – shared the platform at a Recruitment Society event in London to offer their thoughts on the future of the UK recruitment advertising market. Now that they’ve both just celebrated thirty years in the industry, we thought we’d review their prowess as futurologists, as well as seeking their views on the state of the current market ... more or comment here 4 comments

Riding the crest

At the 2011 CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards back in July, Wave came away with the coveted title of ‘agency of the year’. Ri5 caught up with director David Jenkins to find out how the award has impacted on the agency so far ... more or comment here 1 comment

A head start in the graduate jobs stakes

Bright Futures are on-campus societies run by students for students and concerned with the world of work. Ri5 met founder Simon Reichwald (pictured) to find out more. ... more or comment here

Industry appetite for RADs ‘as strong as ever’

With the deadline for the 2012 RADs fast approaching, Ri5 talked to Peter Clarke – agency sales director for Reed Business Information Recruitment Media – about some of the key changes to this year’s awards, as well as the industry’s continuing appetite for the event ... more or comment here

A practical focus for the CIPD’s annual conference

In the second week of November, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s annual conference and exhibition will take place in Manchester for the third year running. Ri5 caught up with conference manager Sara Gilmore to find out what’s new for 2011 and get an insight into the thinking behind this year’s agenda ... more or comment here 5 comments

Leading the audit trail

How does an independently-owned job-board get to be a market-leader in its sector? This was the question that Ri5 recently put to Max Williamson, founder and director of CareersinAudit.com ... more or comment here

In the zone

Mike Fetters talks to Ri5 about totaljobs’ ongoing commitment to the graduate market ... more or comment here

Prospects for graduate recruitment

With the higher education landscape currently undergoing radical change, who better to look to for an overview of the graduate recruitment market than Mike Hill, chief executive of both the registered charity the Higher Education Careers Services Unit and its trading arm, Graduate Prospects ... more or comment here

Penna: a strategy for changing times

Having reported on the structural and management changes at Penna’s resourcing business back in April, Ri5 returned to quiz plc chief executive Gary Browning and new Recruitment Solutions MD Julie Towers on the group’s current business strategy ... more or comment here 16 comments

The graduate market from the other side

With his latest appointment as director of City University London’s Career & Skills Development Service, Gary Argent – a former recruitment operations manager with Logica and, more recently, business development manager at the Association of Graduate Recruiters – has crossed over into the world of higher education. Just a couple of months into his new role, Ri5 caught up with him to see what life looked like from the other side ... more or comment here

Recruiting graduates for Deloitte: the employer perspective

With the average tenure of graduate recruiters stretching to little more than a couple of years, it’s good to be able to talk to the occasional exception – such as Rob Fryer, head of graduate recruitment at Deloitte, who’s still enjoying the thrill of the chase nine years after entering the function ... more or comment here

Durrell on digital

While it may have been fate that initially brought Frank Durrell – TMP’s new head of digital – into the world of recruitment, he’s certainly warming to the challenge ... more or comment here 2 comments

Resourcing with energy

Exactly a year ago, Alistair Milnes moved from his position as head of new business and marketing at Hodes to the client side as head of resourcing for Gazprom Marketing & Trading, the London-based trading arm of the well-known global energy giant. Ri5 caught up with him at the company’s brand-new international HQ next to Regent’s Park to find out how things were shaping up ... more or comment here 5 comments

The changing face of student recruitment