2010 has so far proved about as inconclusive as we could have expected regarding the UK employment market. One minute it’s up and the next it’s down. A simple walk through the streets of Leicester City Centre confirmed that for me on Sunday. Everywhere (and I mean everywhere) you look there are ‘To Let’ Signs [...]

There has been so much talk, debate and reasoning about the future of recruitment agencies; their place in the market, their future and what people ‘think’ will happen to them. I felt that now was a good time to try and get the real story behind the opinions and to try and compile facts, figures, [...]

Following on from my blog post earlier this week, I’ve been overwhelmed by the number of comments, messages and words of wisdom on the issue of the new breed of recruitment firms. Not being one to let something go, I’ve felt compelled to have another go at it, and to question the point of it? [...]

Hi guys, So, I’ve been away for quite a while, been super busy on a whole host of different products. Its been on my mind for some time to put the perverbial pen to paper, so here we are. And for now, I am going to start with a question. I’ve been working with a [...]

Having reviewed Pete Gold’s amazing blog (http://blog.hirestrategies.co.uk) I had to share with you to try and continue the debate around recruitment, evolution, development and above all CHANGE. Pete has put together a series of blog entries regarding this and with his kind permission I have placed it below, so please feel free to join the [...]

So, here I was, just playing around on Twitter when  I really should be doing some work and stumbled across the equivalent of a ‘repost’ on Twitter. @GLHoffman had reposted a blog entry that I’d missed when published by Seth Godin. (For those who don’t know him, he’s one of these people that if he [...]

I’d like to open a debate on the merits of direct recruitment strategy, the use of agencies and why job boards don’t do a better job. At the end of last week I had a long conversation with my mother of all people, who had in some daily tabloid read about the basics of recruitment, [...]

The past 12 to 18 months have seen a steady stream of headlines barracking company bosses about their lack of feeling regarding the people on the front line – the employees. The high street employer, Jessops (the Camera shop) has recently announced that due to a debt restructuring agreement with HSBC and whilst this is really bad news for anyone that has an ounce of equity within the business it guarantees the safety and security of up to 2000 jobs.

Firstly to any followers I am sorry that I haven’t been around a great deal, however, I am now back and with even more opinions on what is right and wrong in the world of jobs, employment and at the moment the role the job hunter plays. In the UK, our biggest selling ragtop; The [...]

So, is this the sign of things to come? A story in this morning’s Sun Newspaper has highlighted perhaps a change of tide in the way that applicants will apply for jobs. Hot off the back of Twitter’s 140 characters, mobile phone firm Teimlo (http://www.teimlo.com/news/61-were-hiring-by-text.html) has set wanna be workers a unique challenge – tell us [...]