A Talent Acquisition Partner asked me this in September, after a hiring manager told her in a kick-off meeting that recruiters “aren’t really a profession”. She had eleven years...
Every recruitment agency owner has a story about the consultant who left on a Friday and was placing the same candidates with the same clients from a rival’s desk on the Monday. It is why...
The salesperson from the umbrella company was polite, the margin was good, and three of your temps asked for them by name. None of that is due diligence.
Since 6 April 2026 an agency...
When a temp registers with an agency today, two documents change hands before any work is found. The Key Information Document, which says how they will be paid and by whom. And the written...
Somewhere this autumn a client will stop you mid-call and ask, "So what actually changed?" They will not want a seminar. They will want to know whether it costs them money, and whether...
On 1 October the time limit for bringing most employment tribunal claims doubles from three months to six. Nothing else about the law changes that day. What changes is how long your evidence has...
A logo on a website is not a check. Anyone can put a logo on a website. Here are three checks that take a minute between them and tell you whether a recruitment agency, or an individual recruiter,...
People type this question into Google every month, and almost nobody answers it plainly. So here is our attempt, from a body that would obviously like you to join, but would rather you joined for...
Most rule changes for agencies arrive with a date attached. This one arrived quietly, as an update to a policy document, and it is worth more attention than its low profile suggests.
On...
If it has felt harder to fill roles this summer, the official numbers now agree with you.
The Office for National Statistics published its latest labour-market figures on 18 August....
When a government agency publishes a “delivery plan”, most people scroll past. Fair enough. The phrase sounds like paperwork about paperwork. But the Fair Work Agency’s first...
August is traditionally the month recruitment catches its breath. This year it is the month that decides how ready you are for the autumn. Five things worth doing before September...
Three years ago this page listed ten interview questions, and most of them asked about the person rather than the work. In 2026 that is the wrong way round. Since 1 October a candidate who...
The UK had 691,000 vacancies in July to September 2026, the first time the total has been below 700,000 since the spring of 2021, and there were 2.4 unemployed people for every one of...
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