Author Archives: Virginia
An Overview of The Recruitment Best Practice Forum on 17/05/2013
Friday the 17th May TalentPuzzle hosted its’ Recruitment Best Practice forum at 76 Portland Place. There were 30 attendees and 5 speakers. The day kicked off at 9am and TalentPuzzle’s own Ben Fletcher opened up proceedings with an introduction to … Read more
How to find and select a good recruitment agency
We recently did a UK wide survey asking Recruitment Managers about the means used to find and select recruitment agencies. Now, this question might seem funny to you, as – no doubt – you get hundreds of calls every week … Read more
TalentPuzzle re-launches as Agency Comparison Site
TalentPuzzle, the UK’s first and largest recruitment marketplace, today launched their new website taking a twist on its original business model. Describing its service as an Agency Comparison Website, TalentPuzzle follows the recent trends in the travel and insurance industries, … Read more
Agency Best Practice Guidelines
The agent warrants that their recruitment services will be performed in a professional manner consistent with industry and TalentPuzzle standards. If TalentPuzzle is informed of poor standards and notifies the agent explaining the nature and reason for the warning, then … Read more
How to deal with cold calls from agencies
There must come a point in nearly every professional’s life where they become subject to the hounding of the dreaded cold call! Within the HR world this is almost a right of passage as if you are in the industry … Read more
Social media: threat or opportunity for agencies?
The answer, as always, depends. To understand the question it’s helpful to look at when agencies are best placed to help employers, and when other channels should be used. Our view is that agencies deliver the most value when they … Read more
ONS study suggests that part-time employees are more content than those in full-time work
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which focused on the well-being of workers has revealed that part-time workers are the happiest in the UK. The ONS survey asked 80,000 people aged 16 and over to rate their life … Read more
Management skills are crucial to boosting UK business performance
Figures from a new report, published by Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Penna, indicate that over four in ten managers (43%) within the UK consider their line managers to be ineffective. Only 39% of managers in low performing businesses consider … Read more
Is the CV the right tool for the modern recruitment process?
I know there has been a lot of debate about whether the CV is dead or not. At TalentPuzzle we feel that the usual arguments about LinkedIn taking over or your general web presence becoming more important miss the point. If you … Read more
Scottish Power to boost its workforce significantly
Scottish Power has announced that it will create up to 300 new full-time positions within the areas of System Design, HVDC development and engineering to manage their transmission and distribution networks. British companies seem to be recruiting in line with … Read more