We’ve had quite a few enquiries about the difficulties of obtaining UK work permits recently – and we’ve promised to post some information relevant to those who are interested.
Despite the widespread myth that immigration is a “problem” in the UK, and that – for some reason – people come to the UK purely to claim [...]

If you enjoyed this morning’s little story, check out the sequel – again, from Hereisthecity.com…
‘Never busier’, Ronnie lied.
The severe young woman from Personnel looked over her glasses at him, clearly unconvinced. She was new and this was the first time they had met.
‘Tell me, Ronnie, exactly how would you describe your recruitment firm ? I’ve [...]

During our traditional weekend blog search, we came across The Secret Diary of Ronnie the Recruiter on www.hereisthecity.com.
It made us chuckle enough to warrant us…ahem..borrowing it. We assume, of course, the Ronnie the Recruiter is currently toiling away in the banking sector….
‘The alarm clock went off at 6.30. I turned over and decided to [...]

When it was introduced, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 caused something of a kerfuffle within the recruitment industry.
Don’t get us wrong, it’s not that the industry was reluctant to admit that ageism was a problem. The vast majority of recruiters will be able to tell stories of attitudes towards both older and younger [...]

It’s a well-known fact that writing a top-quality CV is both vitally important to the end-game of getting a new job and actually quite difficult. This week, we’ll be looking at flipping this scenario on its head and discussing an equally-neglected task: writing job descriptions.
It won’t surprise you that we see a lot of [...]

This is may be a little off-topic, although with the fear spreading throughout the recruitment industry as to the effect that the problems with the worldwide economy will have on hiring, perhaps it’s not….
Thankfully for us, we happen to know a guy who survived the last downturn. So what was the secret of his [...]

Gosh, we’ve been a little quiet of late. Apologies, things have been rather hectic over here preparing some major changes to our corporate website as well as managing what’s been a really good start to 2008 for us, and our upcoming expansion into China.
He who shall remain nameless – Idealpeople’s chief blog writer – [...]

China isn’t for the faint hearted, and as our former MD, Michael Wright is soon to leave UK shores for the Far East we are writing a series of articles to ease the tension he’s feeling and actually validate his thinking about why setting up in China is a good thing.
Dateline 2007, January: A Big [...]

When we started the blog, we PROMISED we wouldn’t post job adverts up here. But this one is just too pertinent to blogging in general the we couldn’t help ourselves….if you’re interested, mail us at contact@idealpeople.net for more information.
Community Manager, Blogger, Blog, Author, Technical Writer, documentation
Central London – Up to £60,000 + Benefits
Idealpeople are [...]

We’ve been talking about China and APAC for some time now, primarily because we’re in the final throes of setting up an Idealpeople office in Beijing, and we’re terribly excited…
At the same time though, it’s with some sadness that our APAC opening will co-incide with the departure of one of our founders, Michael Wright. [...]