Recruitment 2020
A project with the Guardian and the The Recruitment & Employment Confederation
"recruitment"
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- Employer engagement and the London labour market (DWP Commissioned) Finds that the single largest method through which people secture employment in London is word of mouth. from : duncanoleary 5th September 2006
- BBC NEWS: Ofsted promises ethnic diversity England's education watchdog is looking to recruit more inspectors from ethnic minority groups. Currently 9% of Ofsted's staff are from ethnic minorities, compared with 8% for the civil service as a whole. The Racial equality scheme has been revised and published following a review and assessment of Ofsted’s functions and their relevance to the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. from : duncanoleary 11th September 2006
- Guardian Technology | Can Britain produce a success like YouTube? Aticle describing new recruitment site Zubka.com: It 'gives people the chance to earn a recruitment fee for placing their contacts into new jobs. Users are offered thousands of pounds for successful referrals, and the founders hope it will revolutionise job hunting in the same way Lastminute.com changed the travel business' from : duncanoleary 23rd October 2006
- RecruiterMagazine.co.uk - 60% of employees seek new role Around 60% of employees are actively looking for new positions according to research by online learning provider SkillSoft. It found 59% of employees confess to checking job listings and job websites while at work and 19% have their details registered with a recruitment agency, headhunter or online job service. It found 41% already have an up-to-date CV ready to go. from : duncanoleary 25th October 2006
- RecruiterMagazine.co.uk - Promotion more important than pay Promotion and moving up the career ladder are the most important factors when searching for a job, according to a survey by recruitment agency Brook Street. Pay and benefits, the people you work with and location, also scored highly. However, surprisingly few said the company profile was an important aspect when job seeking. from : duncanoleary 25th October 2006
- The Long Tail: Remember when diaries were secret? 'Something big changed over the past decade as a long trend of diminished privacy suddenly flipped to radical transparency...Today, that diary has become a MySpace page and the secret crush is the guy draped over the keg on her Facebook gallery' from : duncanoleary 4th December 2006
- On the Internet, everybody knows you're a dog. - By Michael Kinsley - Slate Magazine "anonymity does not actually seem to interest many of the Web's most devoted users. They are the ones who start their own sites, or sign up for MySpace, or submit videos to YouTube. Quite the opposite: The most successful Web sites seem to be those where people can abandon anonymity and use the Internet to stake their claims as unique individuals." from : duncanoleary 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." from : duncanoleary 4th 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. from : duncanoleary 4th December 2006
- 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." from : duncanoleary 18th December 2006