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Beyond the CRM: What Recruitment Technology Could Look Like by 2030

Recruitment businesses have more technology than ever, but is it actually making recruiters’ lives easier? In a recent Recruitment Smarts Live, Louise spoke to Jay Slinger, Managing Director of JSBC...

The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: Winning New Clients is the Biggest Driver of Growth.

This post by Vince Seddon of Simplicity in Business is part of our blog series, “The Recruitment Rule I’d Break”. If there’s one recruitment rule, I’d challenge, it’s the belief...

Right to Work on 1 October: What 57 Agencies Told Us, and What to do With the Weeks Left

Jack Roberts surveyed 57 UK recruitment and compliance leaders in August. The gap he found runs along firm size, and the firms that closed it did so years ago for...

The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: Stop Rewarding Call Volume

This post by Farid El Machaoud at Wiggli is part of our blog series, “The Recruitment Rule I’d Break”. If there is one rule I would break, it is measuring...

Recruitment Smarts #1239

From the Editor September is shaping up to be awards month for the recruitment industry, with four major events taking place in just three weeks. The Global Recruiter UK Industry...

The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: Speed to Submit as the Be-All-End-All Metric

This post by Tracker is part of our blog series, “The Recruitment Rule I’d Break”. Every agency I’ve ever worked with tracks it. Time to first submittal. Fastest fingers win the...

Recruitment Smarts #1238

From the Editor Recruitment is full of long‑standing rules, from always requesting a CV to prioritising speed, guarding salary details and measuring success by time‑to‑hire. Many of these practices once...
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The Recruitment Rule I’d Break: It’s Time to Challenge Recruitment’s Received Wisdom

Recruitment has no shortage of rules – written into processes and policies and many are simply accepted as “the way things are done”: always ask for a CV, never disclose...
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Building a Contract Recruitment Business for Long-Term Success

Launching and growing a successful contract recruitment business can be one of the most rewarding opportunities in our sector. Recurring revenues, stronger client relationships and increased business value make contract...
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