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What does a perfect recruitment agency look like?

If you had a magic wand and could instantly create your own perfect recruitment solution for hiring accountants, designed to do EXACTLY what you need, what would it be like? How would it work?

What would the ideal financial services …

Social media recruitment

The internet, social media and social networking have changed everything.  It used to be not “what you know” but “who you know”.  Now it seems although we don’t know everybody we are able, reasonably easily, to reach virtually everybody.  LinkedIn …

Recruitment in an online age

So, how has the internet and social media changed the way hiring and recruitment companies operate?  Has the candidate database, traditionally a carefully treasured asset of recruitment companies, effectively become public?

These thoughts, collated from my own insights and from …

Steps to getting the most out of your recruitment company

The more specialised the role the greater the rigour required in analysing the candidates’ suitability to carry out the role.

  • Define the job specification really carefully;
    • Identify what is actually required,  this may or may not be what the incumbent