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Disaster recovery is one of those terms that is often misunderstood. You may well be quite comfortable not having a detailed, thoroughly tested strategy in place for if your office is blown to smithereens, or swept away in a tsunami – after all, that time and money could be better spent dealing with things that are actually likely to happen. However, having some form of disaster recovery and business continuity plan could really save your agency – and in events far more probable than fires, floods or war raging in the town you work in.

When you work with a team of people, it obviously pays off if everybody knows and trusts each other, and has spent some time doing some things together that allow people to bond outside of the jobs you all do every day. Team building events have become a business staple because of this, and whether you work for a small agency or a big recruitment consultancy, you’re likely to either have to go to or organise these kinds of things a few times a year.
However, there are some concepts for team building that are so dated, uncomfortable, or ju

It’s a fact of working as a recruiter that a lot of the emails you send out to try and find potential candidates are not going to be 100% relevant to their recipients. Most professionals accept the slightly off emails, for example getting an e-mail about a contract as a Ruby developer when you’re a Python developer, or an email about a job that is slightly too junior or senior for you. They don’t really think anything of them, and just delete them.However, when people get comically irrelevant jobs emailed to them by recruiters, they tend to

You know those innocuous mailshots you send out once you’ve filtered the relevant potential candidates for a new role from your recruitment database? They seem like something it’d be pretty hard to mess up, right? A brief message to the recipient introducing the role, the summarised job description, and then a call to action asking them to get in touch if interested. However, there are some subtle things that can appear in these emails that can put people off either the job, or applying for it through you, that you may not have thought of.

When you are posting jobs on job boards and websites, or emailing potential candidates from your hiring database with details of a new role your clients want you to find people to fill, it can be surprisingly easy to include buzzwords that are either worthless in convincing your target audience that this job is for them, or can actually be obnoxious and off putting. Nobody likes cheesy sales speak from businesses, and it is the same deal with job descriptions.

Headhunting can be far more challenging than finding candidates from the active jobseekers in your recruitment database, but can often be the way to find people your clients will be really excited about hiring. Generally, to headhunt means to get in touch with someone who is already working in a similar position or industry, and to try and lure them into considering a job with your recruiting client.

This means you need several skills – researching, to find targets, pitching, to encourage interest in your vacancy, and the subtlety to k

A new self-build integrated website goes live for Factoring Finance Recruitment.

Opus One Associates are a recruitment and search consultancy located in the heart of the thriving London “Fin Tech” community.

Having deployed Chameleon-i within their recruitment agency it was simple to create their new recruitment website using Chameleon-i’s blueprint as it provided them with a cost-effective way to produce a recruitment site with all the functionality that they required including: –

• Candidates

A new self-build integrated website goes live for
Arc Search.

ARC Search is a specialist recruitment agency who work within the Actuarial, Risk and Compliance verticles.

They recruit for the following types of opportunity: –

Arc’s recruitment website includes the following fun

Marketing your business effectively is crucial to keeping the job roles coming in and your recruitment management software full of the best candidates. While we may already be in the second quarter of 2016, it is never a bad time to review your marketing strategy to see if you can refine things to get better results in terms of brand awareness, leads, and visits to your website.

The recruitment software you use is one of the key things that makes you able to match excellent candidates to your clients’ roles, and provide a great service.

Your agency’s IT is also what allows you to work flexibly, without loads of administrative overheads for people who can be better using their time recruiting. When it comes to hiring software and recruitment databases, as well as all kinds of other business solutions agencies need for running their operations, software as a service or ‘SaaS’ solutions are becoming the most popu