The NHS White Paper: What does it mean for recruiters?…

Why do recruiters not interact with HR more?

By interact, I mean outside of the recruitment process. As David Head of Recruitment International raised in his September issue, why, for example, does the CIPD conference have not one recruiter on the speakers list? Strange seeing as recruitment (including succession planning, employee relations etc) makes up a large part of their role.

This…

Five years on using social media: have recruitment agencies learnt to interact?

We have all seen the power that social media has. Most recruiters, whether a recruitment agency, HR department or a hiring line manager will use sites like LinkedIn to identify candidates and, more often than not, Facebook and Google to vett them. However, they do not always contribute to this online community. This one sided approach to social…