Louise's UK Recruiter Blog

Redundancy Advice - outsource the nasty jobs

I recently put something on Twitter saying that I was looking for an article on how Recruitment Firms should handle redundancies.  I was thinking I'd hopefully get something along the lines of the issues to consider, how to determine who should go/stay, legal implications, etc. 

Kate Hawthorne of Hatricks Public Relations  sent me an article entitled "A Better Way to Handle Redundancies" (on behalf of Burden Dare).

It dives straight into the main advice (which is always a novelty in an article or press release!) with:

"Companies can protect the well being of their managers by hiring interim executives to manage their redundancy programmes...."

Well, that wasn't the sort of redundancy article I was thinking of! 

MoneySupermarket for the Recruitment Industry

Peoplecompare.co.uk has been around for a while (I think they launched back in May) but their very nice PR bod asked me if I'd write something about some new functionality they are adding. 

But back to basics; Peoplecompare is a site where as a recruitment firm you pay for a listing and then corporates can find your details and contact you to give you business.  Your listing includes....

So Peoplecompare V.2 has just gone live and is apparently "a more animated and functional looking site, more polished graphics, affiliate directory etc".  They also launching a CV distribution tool as "Peoplecompare gets many job seekers finding the site under the impression it’s a job search tool. Now the company is capturing these individuals and offering to distribute their details to their agency network free of charge. This means more candidates for the recruiters and free distribution for the candidates to help find work." 

And if you are interested in using the site they have a New York trip offer: 4 nights for being the 5,000 job posted through the site!

Thoughts on Broadbean's purchase

I'd like to firstly point out that I DO have my finger on the pulse - but I have been out of the office loads since last Thursday so haven't had time to write about the acquisition of Broadbean by Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), the digital division of DMGT.

Rather than re-hash the story I thought I'd point you in the direction of some other bloggers who were far swifter than me in posting about it!

From the horses mouth: Dan McGuire of Broadbean

Dom Sumners of OME questioning the Conkers issue (multiple job board posting tool also owned by the AND group - for those who aren't in the know), wondering if other job boards will have an issue with the connection and wanting to know how much AND paid for Broadbean.

Peter Gold of Hire Strategies with some good points about the future of both parties (must mention how surprised I was that Peter didn't make one dig at Dan!)

Alastair Cartwright of Enhance talking about how other job boards will feel and if there is room for another multiple job board posting tool.

Eva Zils of Online-Recruiting.net hits the nail on the head over how the deal should enable Broadbean to ramp up their expansion plans.

Si Conroy at JoBoOw looks at the impact on the multiposting market.

My only comment to add is an obvious congratulations to Dan and the team!  I hear the beers will be on Dan at our next London networking on 13th November (click on the register button if you want to come along)!!

Recruiter's Digital Edition

I'm surprised that I can't find anyone else who has commented on this. 

At the start of the month I received an email with information of how I could "breeze through the latest issue" of Recruiter on my screen. 

Here's how it works: -
1. Click on the bottom corner to turn pages
2. Click on the page to enlarge articles
3. Click on web addresses to link directly to other websites

It certainly looks slick and it's easy to turn pages/zoom etc.  However, I found it annoying to have to keep zooming in and then out again as I read a story and then browsed for the next one I wanted to read.  I get that they wanted to keep the look of the printed publication but it's just not user friendly enough for me. 

Anyone else got any thoughts?

RecruitRank Awards

I'm sure that the RecruitRank Awards were one of the first things I blogged about.

They have been around since November 2005 and have just announced the finalists for the RecruitRank Awards 2008. "Recognising best practice and quality customer service in recruitment agencies, the RecruitRank Awards are the only awards in the industry where finalists and winners are chosen by the feedback from candidates and not a panel of industry judges."

You can view the finalists on the RecruitRank website

The Awards ceremony takes place on 30th October 2008 at One Marylebone Road (in London). The Awards host is James Caan (do I really need to mention that he is founder of the Alexander Mann Group and one of the Dragon's from the BBC series Dragon’s Den?).

I was hoping to get along to the awards but will be geograpically challenged that night.  So, if anyone wants my ticket (in return for doing a write up for me) please let me know.