Tag Archive | "recruitment"

Although the economy would appear to be moving along an upwards trajectory, albeit at a slower pace than anticipated, competition between employers to attract the best available talent for their organisations remains as intense as at any point over the past five years. Smart employers will understand that candidates will be seeking organisations whose values [...]

It can take a metaphorical knock on the head or kick from behind to spur some people into action, but my experience was rather more real and a little more painful. Whilst sitting at my desk as a retail manager in London, a box full of metal brackets fell from a shelf above. Completely unaware [...]

It’s not a secret that stress is a leading cause of ill health among office workers. In 2011 the annual CIPD Absence Management Survey1 found that stress had overtaken acute illnesses, such as cancer, as the main reason office employees took sick leave. Stress is not new. We all feel stressed from time to time, [...]

For Matt Berry, Director or Resourcing at Centrica, the daily challenge of his team is that around half of all candidates are already customers of British Gas. The other half are potential customers. “There can’t be too many people in that scenario, and it certainly focuses the mind in terms of the way that you [...]

As you may have seen on our social media channels or heard on the radio, we’re on a mission to find the nation’s best bits of career advice! We want to hear tips and tricks from all walks of life, whether someone’s fresh out of education or they’ve climbed several rungs of their career ladder. [...]

The interview is a central part of the recruitment process for all organisations. It’s an exchange between you and each applicant. An opportunity for them to sell themselves as the best candidate for the job and for you to mark your stall as the employer of choice. But when it comes to graduate recruitment, employers [...]

At Monster.co.uk we’re pleased to see that The Times newspaper have included us in a list of the top 50 websites you can’t live without. Our entry read: “For anyone in the market for a new job, this should be the first place to stop. One of the world’s biggest employment websites, it has extensive [...]

The Social, Mobile and Recruitment Technology (SMART) summit will take place on January 17th to showcase next gen Recruitment Technology solutions, including Social Recruiting platforms, Mobile Recruiting tools and more. HR Professionals will be there to see demos of the smartest recruitment platforms in the industry, including HR/Recruitment bloggers and press. At this unique event, you will [...]

Julia Biggs is the founder of Interimity a HR and Recruiter community network on Linkedin and a regular contributor to the HR and Recruitment Buzz. Julia shared with us her thoughts on ‘why HR has the recruitment industry we deserve’ I have spent a long time as a recruitment agency client, a shorter time as a [...]

Another day and another hire, the world of recruitment doesn’t stop and that’s what makes it so fun. I’ve been asking friends in the Recruitment Industry to give us their predictions for 2013. We’ve been talking to Darren Brown (Co-Founder and CEO at Logic Melon) and Mike Roberts (Event Director at the Graduate Recruitment Social Media [...]