SMEs’ £69million recruitment waste

British Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) waste £69 million on poor recruitment decisions every year 22 per cent of new recruits or 55,000 new employees leave their job within the first six months Hiring the wrong staff is costing British Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) a wasteful £69 million each year, new analysis from Jobsite.co.uk reveals.1 The country’s small and medium businesses invest £300 million a year in hiring 250,000 employees.2 However, not finding the right staff...
Published about 06-11-2008 | Rated 0

Executive recruitment agency acquired in MBO

A Liverpool-based executive recruitment and talent management consultancy has unveiled major rebranding plans following its acquisition in a management buy-out. NDK International, based at the Plaza, Old Hall Street, has been bought from founder Neil Kelly by new joint managing partners, Simon Kerevan and Alex Martin, for an undisclosed sum. The company will now shift its core focus onto psychometric assessment, coaching and mentoring, leadership development, recruitment process outsourcin...
Published about 06-11-2008 | Rated +1

Red Advertising Sponsors Innovative Offline Marketing Award

Red Advertising Ltd, the online classified job advertising company, has agreed to sponsor Onrec’s 2009 Innovative Offline marketing Award for the second year running. The Innovative Offline Marketing Award is split into three categories, they are: - Niche jobs board, Generalist jobs board and Online Recruitment supplier. The award will be presented to the company that has created the best offline marketing campaign to run either on TV, in print or Radio during 2008, as deemed by the indepen...
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Employers are being helped to beat the economic downturn by the UK’s specialist part time job board

With recession looming www.myparttimejob.co.uk , one of the UK’s fastest growing job sites specialising exclusively in part-time jobs is helping UK employers recruit part time staff by allowing them to advertise their part time roles free of charge. Having grown on average 30% month on month since launch, MyPartTimeJob.co.uk offers both employers and candidates a targeted, discreet platform devoted to part time jobs of all types, nationwide and currently employers can post their jobs for fr...
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JobsGroup.net Grows Sales and Account Management Teams with Six New Appointments

JobsGroup.net has today announced the appointment of six new people to the award-winning online recruitment company’s sales and account management teams. Nick Johnson joins from Barkers and will work within the new JobsGroup.net ad agency team in London. Stephen Poulton, Darren Dinnage and Brad Stevenson join as external Business Development Managers to support the needs of clients across the UK. Mark Bellwood joins as Customer Relations Manager and Alberto Zambianchi joins as an Account Ma...
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Call for Speakers for the 2009 Global Online Recruiting Event of the Year

Building on the incredible success of the Onrec Expo this past September (video #1 / new video link here), this is a call for speakers having a profound impact on our rapidly changing industry for the upcoming 2009 Global Online Recruiting Conference and Expo to be held November 3-4, 2009 in Chicago. "The general feeling that surrounds our annual Chicago show is that it is unique, global and serious," says David Hurst, Founder of Onrec.com. "The Onrec Expo is a place where the industry evolve...
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GTI One hop from Linx – the UK internet super highway

With recession looming www.myparttimejob.co.uk , one of the UK’s fastest growing job sites specialising exclusively in part-time jobs is helping UK employers recruit part time staff by allowing them to advertise their part time roles free of charge. Having grown on average 30% month on month since launch, MyPartTimeJob.co.uk offers both employers and candidates a targeted, discreet platform devoted to part time jobs of all types, nationwide and currently employers can post their jobs for fr...
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IBS Software denies wrongdoing

(IANS) Kerala-based software major IBS Software Services, which was recently criticised by the government for terminating employees, Monday said it had done nothing wrong.Earlier there were reports that IBS had terminated a large number of employees on record of poor performance, following which the government said it would send a team of labour officials to the company for inspection. Soon after the officials visited the IT firm’s office here Monday and said there were violations, IBS chie...
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Recruitment ghost to haunt Revanna

The public works department (PWD) engineersïž’ recruitment scam gets murkier by the day. The BJP government has ordered a Lok Ayukta probe into alleged large-scale irregularities in recruitment done last year. While the JD(S) has big plans to revive the party and has elevated former CM H D Kumaraswamy as its state unit president, the Yeddyurappa-led government wants to nail Kumaraswamyïž’s brother and former PWD minister H D Revanna. This, because recruitment of 703 engineers was done under R...
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Army recruitment drive in Kolar

An Army recruitment rally for the posts of soldier (general duty), Soldier GD (non-metric) soldier (clerk/store keeper/technical), soldier (nursing assistants), soldier (tradesman) and re-enrolment of ex-servicemen (Soldier GD ) into DSC has been arranged at Sir M.Visweshwaraiah stadium, Kolar Stadium here from November 5 to 12. Those who have applied for Havaldar education in Army Education Corps in response to the advertisement in employment newspaper of October 11, 2008 and issued wit...
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