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Now here’s a story we can get our teeth into….
For those too busy to click the link, it’s all about a new system being set up called the “National Staff Dismissal Register”, which is a system where an employer can log the details of any member of staff who was fired or who resigned from […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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You’ve probably heard about the credit crunch, right?
And you’ve probably heard about the trouble brewing in the worldwide financial markets, right?
There’s plenty of people out there wondering how this might affect recruitment. So we decided to ask the Idealpeople team what they thought 2008 held for them. First up, it’s our inimitable former […]

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Remember the Idealpeople “Call to Arms” series we kicked off not too long ago? You know, it was the thing about changing the way a significant number of people working in the Recruitment industry are getting are doing little more than harranging businesses, firing a lot of mud at people and offering little or […]

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Regular readers will be well aware of what we think of Recruitment Process Outsourcing - the process by which a company looking to hire (generally a large number of) people enslist the elp of one “master agency” to manage the work of several other agencies supplying the staff.
To summarize our argument, we believe that RPO […]

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We were delighted to be invited to speak to a group of final-year students at the University of Northampton’s Business Schoolearlier this week, on the subject of Careers in Recruitment.
We’ve recently been on a one-company mission (particularly in the absence of much help from the industry’s, ahem, “Regulator”) to change the way Recruitment as a […]

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We’ve talked before about the scary stuff that can happen if you employ a weak or flawed hiring strategy, and we’d be nuts not to suggest that bolting in third party support from a trusted, reputable talent broker is the best solution. But sometimes really crazy stuff supporting this case plays out in the real […]

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I’m lucky enough to work with an especially crack team of highly-skilled individuals here at Idealpeople - and whilst it’s taken some time - they’re finally creeping out of the woodwork and are ready to give your blogmaster some help.
So without further ado, here’s our first Guest Author article, written by our very own Richard […]

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