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The ins & outs of engineering recruitment

Posted under general, webrecruit news on Thursday, January 31, 2013 No Comments

A survey which analysed a search index of over 500,000 job vacancies has revealed the engineering sector has been buoyant during 2012 with average salaries increasing by 6% over the past 6 months. Predicted to continue booming in the first half of 2013, the engineering continue reading

Improving the representation of females on the board

Posted under employer advice, general on Thursday, January 17, 2013 No Comments

Did you know the number of UK female directors has risen to 5 million compared with 4.3 million in 2007? News from HR Magazine last month revealed the number of female directors has rocketed over the past 5 years, with the increase in female directors continue reading

Sourcing part-time candidates in a part-time world

Posted under general on Friday, December 14, 2012 No Comments

If you’ve been paying any attention to the latest UK employment figures, then you may have noticed that the part-time worker has become much more prominent in recent times. Of course, many of these people will inevitably be those who are unable to find full-time continue reading

Tis the season to be hired

Posted under general on Friday, December 7, 2012 No Comments

Looking to ease the financial strain this Christmas but bored of your typical retail, customer service and sales positions? We’ve been on a quest to identify the most exciting (and somewhat peculiar) jobs available during the festive period. Whether you’re a university student home for continue reading

What are the recruitment possibilities of Tumblr?

Posted under general on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2 Comments

There’s been some debate in recent years about how online recruitment has largely switched its focus from the ‘old school’ job boards and recruitment sites to social media sites, where it is so often the actual users that call the shots in terms of the continue reading

What’s the UK’s scariest job?

Posted under career advice, general on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 No Comments

Forget witches, goblins, ghosts and ghouls this Halloween. At webrecruit, we thought we’d get down to the really scary stuff. Delving into your deepest and darkest fears, we’ve been on a quest to find out what you think is the scariest job out there. Without continue reading

webrecruit’s journey so far (infographic)

Posted under featured, general, webrecruit news on Monday, October 29, 2012 No Comments

As the name behind the UK’s first fixed fee recruitment model, webrecruit has paved the way for a new type of hiring: one that reduces recruitment spend and makes talent accessible to everyone. Transforming recruitment is what drives us. It has done since we established continue reading

The Evolution of Mobile Recruitment

Posted under employer advice, general on Friday, October 26, 2012 1 Comment

The impact of technology has paved a new path for online recruitment; from focusing on the active job seeker via online job boards to building communities through the use of social media to target the active and passive talent. Then there is leveraging these communities continue reading

How to close the engineering gender gap

Posted under employer advice, general on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 No Comments

Attracting females to the engineering discipline has been an ongoing challenge. In fact, the latest industry figures show that only 6% of the UK engineering workforce is female. This is unchanged from 2011 and an increase of just 1% since 2008. Whether it’s image, pressure or continue reading

Are job boards still relevant in a social media world?

Posted under general, online recruitment on Thursday, October 11, 2012 2 Comments

It’s astonishing to think how swiftly methods of recruiting staff have moved on in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with developments in both technology and wider public life. Both candidates and employers once depended on job notice boards in public places, which morphed continue reading