ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

CV-Library strikes personal bests across all metrics, receiving over one million job applications, 208,728 CV registrations (140,055 new CVs) and 2.2 million unique visitors in October alone; a great achievement for the independent job board

Applying to irrelevant jobs topped the list of pet peeves for 1,500 recruiters surveyed by the global leader in online recruitment software, Bullhorn

Flexible working leaves employees mentally chained to their desks

UK companies hiring onsite contractors have historically been forced to pay hefty recruitment fees but many are now set to save hundreds of thousands pounds (and larger companies millions of pounds) on their annual recruitment budget, following the launch of a new recruitment platform called Elevate Direct

Anne Corder Recruitment’s Rosie Hooton has been accepted into the Institute of Recruitment Professionals having scored an industry exam success.

88% of job seekers discuss their experiences of a recruitment process with friends and/or colleagues, according to the latest research from recruitment specialists Robert Walters

The 2012 Virtual Graduate Fair, hosted by eFinancialCareers, the leading global career site network for professionals working in the investment banking, asset management and securities industries, will take place on November 7th, 2012

Fuel is delighted to announce the opening of a central office in Holborn, London. The addition of this Southern base will result in an enhanced service to our existing candidates and clients in this area, and also allow us to further expand our client and candidate base

NES Global Talent, the global manpower specialist, took part in an oil and gas recruitment fair in Aberdeen (30 October) for service leavers after recognising that skillsets learned during a military career are in great demand in the natural gas and oil field

ExtremeRecruitment.com has recently launched a new network of jobsites promoting jobs in sport, leisure and travel using a single central database to power all candidate and employer (client) transactions

SecsintheCity, the UK’s # 1 job site for PAs and Secretaries, announced the winners of their PA of the Year Awards at The Ivy restaurant in London.

An unemployed Leeds University graduate landed a job with Legal & General after standing for nine hours in The City of London with a placard around his neck, which read "Leeds graduate looking for job in financial services"

Okay, there are no cold hard facts to back this last one up but we probably still think it’s true, especially if your life has less office politics, a better work life balance and you generally enjoy your work more

Following a competitive Tender exercise, LA International has been chosen by the Government Procurement Service, an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, to deliver key components of the G-Cloud programme through the G-Cloud II Framework Agreement

With Halloween creeping up on us, it has been reported that a frightening amount of misuse of social media and the internet by workers costs Britain’s economy billions of pounds every year