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Celebrating Recruitment Excellence: Highlights from the REC Awards 2026

The recruitment industry’s brightest talent gathered last night for the REC Awards 2026, a celebration of the people, businesses and initiatives raising standards across the sector. Hosted by the Recruitment...

Why I’d Break the Rule of Waiting Until Probation Ends to Review a New Consultant

This post by Crystel Robbins Rynne, CEO at HRLocker, is part of our blog series, “The Recruitment Rule I’d Break”. The general rule in agency recruitment is that you wait until...

Recruitment Smarts #1248

From the Editor The NORA Recruiting Technologies Conference returns on 18 November, bringing together recruitment and talent acquisition leaders for an afternoon of insight, innovation and discussion. Later that evening,...

Making AI Work on the Recruitment Desk

Writing a job advert with AI is one thing. Building it into the way an agency works every day takes rather more thought. And if consultants are copying information between...

Why UK Recruiters Are Overlooking Military Talent

Military personnel make a conscious decision to serve their country, and in many cases, that means putting their lives at risk. Sounds a bit dramatic, doesn’t it? But as a...

Recruitment Smarts #1247

From the Editor This week’s edition explores one of recruitment’s biggest themes: balancing technology with human expertise. We look at AI’s growing influence on hiring, why recruiters remain irreplaceable, how...

Profitability by Design: Recruitment Agency Financial Model Explained

A recruitment agency can increase placements, hire more consultants and bring in more revenue, yet still become less profitable. We’ve seen it happen repeatedly. In some cases, it creates more...

Recruitment Smarts #1246

From the Editor Over the past few weeks, our The Recruitment Rule I’d Break series has invited recruitment leaders, founders and industry experts to challenge the accepted wisdom that shapes...
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The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: What the Industry Is Challenging

Recruitment has never been short of rules. Some are written into processes, others have simply become accepted wisdom over time. But in a market shaped by changing candidate expectations, evolving...
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