This week Louise will be attending the Recruitment Agency Expo which takes place today (Tuesday) and Wednesday. The exhibition brings together recruitment agency owners, directors, managers and consultants with suppliers of specialist products and services for recruitment agencies. Louise will be reviewing it in her blog next week.
A special mention to our Individual Blogger of the Year, Recruiter Claire who is back and blogging. Welcome back Claire!
3 LinkedIn groups
The Independent Recruiting Group (UK) – A community is run by Independent Recruiters, for Independent Recruiters, clients and candidates everywhere.
The Recruitment Society - The Recruitment Society is the UK voice & Membership Association for best practice & innovation in Resourcing.
APSCo - Association of Professional Staffing Companies - APSCo is the UK’s only recruitment industry body solely representing the interests of recruitment organisations engaged in the acquisition of business professionals on behalf of clients, either on a permanent or flexible basis.
Everyone in recruitment is (seemingly) looking for the next big thing. What is the fascination with the future and the 'shiny new tool syndrome'? We already have the potential to pretty much find anyone we want to.
Recently there have been a fair few blog posts and articles published on various recruitment sites saying is that recruitment, as we know it, is dying. The Undercover Reruiter shows why he believes there's life in the old dog yet.
What is the cost of a bad hire? We all know that hiring the wrong employees can cost organisations a huge amount of money, but this infographic from the US presents some startling figures. When it comes down to it, getting the right fit the first time probably matters a little more than you thought it did. Recruiters, your job is just that much more important.
On a month on month basis, both permanent and temporary vacancies grew strongly in January following the seasonal slow down in December. Compared to January 2012, permanent vacancies were up 1.7% and temporary vacancies were up 10.6%.
Taking a closer look at the trends in permanent recruitment we can see that vacancies were impacted by the lower demand in December resulting in a decline for all but seven sectors, out of 48.
Defence & Military continued its strong permanent vacancy growth, recording 23.4% quarter on quarter increases and 12.7% growth over the equivalent period last year.
New Media & Internet and Electronics have also had notable growth, both achieving the highest level of permanent vacancies recorded (since 2008) and delivering positive growth over the quarter.
Logistics Distribution & Supply Chain and Call Centre & Customer Service experienced the largest falls over the quarter, impacted by low hiring demand in November and December.
