Recruitment 2020
A project with the Guardian and the The Recruitment & Employment Confederation
- CIPD - The psychological contract good cipd resource on the psychological contract. 19th February 2007
- Chris Anderson in Wired: The Long Tail Chris Anderson argues that if you break the economic and physical bottlenecks of distribution you can reach a huge, previously neglected market. 'Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream' Anderson says this is made possible when demand is unfiltered by the economics of scarcity - allowing lots niche hits rather than just the mainstream blockbusters. 15th February 2007
- National Statistics Online Good bank of stats on recruitment from ONS. 5th February 2007
- Consevative policy review report: Responsible Business (pdf) New report from the Tories' policy review. Floats the idea of 'responsibility deals', which reward/incentivise socially responsible businesses with lighter regulatory burdens. 16th January 2007
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | You've got to laugh Cites new study on 'workplace happiness index'. Lists factors that make us happy at work. Argues graduates are becoming more value-driven in their choices of where to work. Some good anecdotes too. 11th January 2007
- Gladwell: getting in Writes: 'wouldn't we prefer that at least some law schools try to select good lawyers instead of good law students? This search for good lawyers, furthermore, is necessarily going to be subjective, because things like passion and engagement can't be measured as precisely as academic proficiency. Subjectivity in the admissions process is not just an occasion for discrimination; it is also, in better times, the only means available for giving us the social outcome we want' 10th January 2007
- Recruiters search online for info on candidates More than three-fourths of executive recruiters surveyed said that they routinely use search engines like Google and Yahoo! to learn more about candidates. "Even more significant, 35 percent said they have eliminated a candidate from consideration based on information discovered online." 18th December 2006
- PR students: you are what you blog Interesting take on the privacy/transparency question around the internet and people's pasts. This one suggests that companies may make a virtue of this - giving individuals opportunities to create a 'google-trail' of positive achievements link to company brands. 4th December 2006
- Scatterbox by Steven Silvers: Transparent Generation realizes downside to growing up online. "Call them The Transparent Generation. They're the first true children of the hyperconnected information age, and they were using the Internet before they could write cursive. Now they're starting to graduate college, ready to launch their careers as responsible, tax-paying young adults. And many of them are waking up to a nagging concern about their online trail... all created way they ever thought they might be Googled by a potential boss."