Wednesday this week at 4pm sees the start of our bi-monthly Google “hangout” with Louis Welcomme from Colleague Software, Mark Stephens from F10 and Alan Whitford hosting. You have the ability to join the hangout to contribute to the discussion or to ask questions – alternatively you can post on Google+ or Twitter using the hashtag #rechangout live during the hangout. This month our guests are Dan McGuire and Graham Palfery-Smith who will be discussing how to build a successful recruitment business. You can find out more about them on Louise's blog.
The Recruitment Industry Conference – Tuesday 12th November 2013, London
No actual tips this week but a reminder that all the recruitment tips you could possibly need will be available to you at our end of year Recruitment Conference.
This showcase event with sessions being run by many of the major players in the recruitment conference space is on Tuesday 12th November. This event is for everyone involved in the recruitment industry, including recruitment agencies, employers, publishers and job boards. It will expand your knowledge, offer tremendous networking opportunities, benefit your business and/or personal development, and represents a fantastic opportunity to meet with the best minds in our industry today.
(This is not actually what Andy Headworth thinks a future recruiter will look like but stick with me on the Halloween theme).
Having recently presented a subject called The Future Of Recruitment at an event in New Zealand earlier this month, Andy looks at some of the skills he believes will be essential for recruiters to have in the (not so distant) future here in his article.
The debate over zero hours contracts continues, last week the Channel 4 Dispatches programme, ‘Secrets of Your Pay Packet’ aired aiming to expose some of the issues. Karen Weston, Senior Manager at Aspire Business Partnership, gives her opinion on the programme here.
This interesting article from TotalJobs.com looks further at the pros and cons of the zero hour contract.
As you can tell, I’m running out of tenuous Halloween related links now so here’s an article that looks at exactly makes the difference between an ace recruiter and an average one.
Just1.9 jobseekers per vacancy in September, down from 2.3 in September 2012
Total number of advertised UK job vacancies rises 3.3% year-on-year in September to 710,859, the highest in two years
Findings give strongest indicator yet that unemployment rate will fall below 7.0% before 2016, the Bank of England's current prediction, despite the ONS data showing steady unemployment rate
Salaries picking up, with average advertised salary up 0.6% on August, but still down 0.3% year-on-year
Recovery in wages led by London and the South East, with average advertised salaries rising 1.6% and 0.7% year-on-year in each region respectively
But the outlook is tough for graduates, with more than 50 graduates competing for every entry level job, and graduate salaries down 3.4% year-on-year
For further information see the latest UK Job Market Report from Adzuna.co.uk.
Welcome to our extra special Halloween Edition!
