'Why Do We Bother?': Recruitment and Training in a Call Centre
White Papers Many call centres appear to have rather involved recruitment and training processes and yet, there remains a high level of turnover and burnout reported within the industry. This paper considers one of these paradoxes, the extensive recruitment and...
[July 25, 2006, 3:16]
Recruitment agencies sexist?
Talkback This is interesting - are you saying that some of the problem lies with recruitment companies who don't promote their female clients properly? I would be interested to hear if anyone else has had that experience - I guess the biggest challenge...
[September 27, 2007, 10:02]
Recruitment gets tougher as techies settle down
News Employers looking to recruit IT staff are facing tough times ahead, according to recruitment industry body Atsco, as the number of techies prepared to change jobs has fallen dramatically. The proportion of IT workers looking for a new job or open...
[November 28, 2007, 9:10]
Recruitment Consultant Supports Rapid Growth With New Database Infrastructure
White Papers Pracuj.pl, Poland's largest recruitment service, historically worked with open source systems to support its online job portal. With rapid growth in user numbers, these systems could no longer process the required data volumes effectively.
[November 29, 2006, 0:00]
UK tech industry faces recruitment crisis
News Recruitment and retention of staff remains a big issue for employers in the IT industry. Recruitment problems were reported by 81 percent of employers and a third said they now offer "golden hellos" or signing bonuses to attract the right calibre...
[June 27, 2007, 8:17]
The latest trend in online recruitment
News If you're unlucky enough to be in the job market at the moment and, like many techs, use the Internet and online recruitment sites to search for jobs, you may have encountered a preemptive form apparently designed "to ensure that you meet the...
[February 10, 2003, 10:16]
The latest trend in online recruitment
Talkback I enjoyed your article on recruitment advancements. I owned and operated an international IT recruitment organization in the past and know how difficult match could be. In 2000 I started development of an on line system that would allow skill...
[February 12, 2004, 19:39]
Stop graduate recruitment
Talkback My first step would be to ban all formal graduate recruitment by organisations with over 100 staff and all salaries dependent on practical achievement and community work. I am sorry to see that graduate hiring plans are unaffected by the recent...
[November 25, 2007, 13:25]
High Court of Punjab and Haryana Achieves Transparency in Recruitment Processes
White Papers The Court wanted to enable efficient processing of job applications on a large scale and ensure fair and transparent recruitment processes. Established in 1966, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana oversees subordinate courts and tribunals and has...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Reducing Recruitment Spend: Smart Steps To Find Great Candidates
White Papers Apply the tips from internet recruiting pioneer and recruitment marketing expert, Rob Humphrey, to strengthen your staffing program and lower costs now. Included in this report: effectively using free candidate source social networks to find...
[November 14, 2008, 4:24]
No IT skills shortage, just inadequate recruitment
Talkback As has been commented countless times before by myself and many others, there is plenty of native IT talent in this country, but the current ultra-low-cost no-humans-involved trend in IT recruitment practice is simply not matching people to jobs.
[September 12, 2008, 14:22]
Faculty Recruitment Strategies for Online Programs
White Papers This paper addresses faculty recruitment for online programs. The paper proposes a model for faculty recruitment, taking into consideration areas of concern and contention, and suggests strategies to appropriately meet the challenges.
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
The Selection and Recruitment Game
White Papers This white paper can be a useful reference document for corporate staffing manager as well as for the practicing recruitment consultant. The Human Resource Manager must be very clear about the background of the vacancy to be filled.
[November 30, 2005, 0:00]
Scalable Recruitment Software Solution Significantly Reduces IT and Capital Costs
White Papers TriSys Business Software has been at the forefront of technology innovation in the recruitment industry since the early 1990s. The company designs and implements advanced recruitment software systems to help agencies perform IT-related tasks - from...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
IT recruitment crisis deepens
News Despite recruitment difficulties caused by the skills shortage, fewer survey respondents than last year feel driven to consider software as a service (SaaS) as a means of plugging the gap — just 23 percent said they have considered using SaaS...
[August 8, 2007, 15:54]
Vint Cerf in Google recruitment drive
News Vint Cerf will be visiting universities around the country in support of Google's recruitment drive. One of the founding fathers of the Internet will tour the UK to recruit engineers for Google. Cerf was hired by Google in September as an Internet...
[March 6, 2006, 16:05]
Recruitment Company Boosts Payroll Productivity by 20 Per Cent With Business Solution
White Papers Following the acquisition of several companies, recruitment company Imprint processed payments through disparate systems. This made processing invoices time consuming for the accounts and payroll team.
[June 30, 2008, 0:55]
Alexander Mann Solutions: Going Beyond Recruitment in the HR Media
White Papers The recruitment and HR media considered it to be merely repackaging basic recruitment agency functions. In order to educate the media on the differences between RPO and a recruitment agency, Aspectus worked with its key clients to create a series...
[April 16, 2009, 1:22]
It's not only about specialized recruitment agencies
Talkback A bigger problem I noticed in small companies, where recruitment process at first level is often managed by non-IT workers (e.g.a secretary looks at CV and invites only those, who suit the IT department's needs written on a sheet of a paper).
[September 27, 2007, 10:39]
The crisis is in the recruitment "industry"
Talkback don't stand much chance because an 18 year old "Executive Recruitment Consulting Engineer" sees us as fossilised relics of an earlier age. The recruitment "industry" has dropped it's old approach of understanding the job, understanding the skills...
[April 18, 2008, 10:21]



