Azmat Mohammed | IOR Director General

Award Winning Founder of the Institute of Recruiters (IOR)
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The end is nigh for recruiters? No chance, it will never happen.

On the IOR LinkedIn group David Palmer started a great discussion and highlighted a point that many may be legitimately thinking. He entitled his post ‘Agency extinction within 2 years unless yo Read more

Hannah Keep | Top Biller & Trainer

I am an ex Top Biller - Permanent Consultant billing £540K

Highly qualified coach in Sales Leadership & Impact Development

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Work Hard or Smart - you decide

How many times in your career have you heard the words ‘work smarter, not harder’? Top billers seem to have the innate ability to do this, they do work hard but they choose to work on the  Read more

Claire Manton | Recruiters Insurance

Assistant Vice President at Lockton LLP
Recruitment Insurance Expert - Cover Yourself!

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If you're not sure, ask about IT

I.T. recruitment agencies face a unique set of circumstances when buying insurance. Not only do they need normal office cover and general liability for their own staff, but they can often be deemed re Read more

Guest Blog | Invited to Speak

Special guests are invited to blog on the Genius Team Blog. They are all very opinionated people who have been in the industry a long time and make a valuable contribution.  View Profile

When the going gets tough, the tough unite - by David Palmer

I am at my most animated when watching a great game of rugby or watching Ed Balls being interviewed. The first fills me with good feelings about skill, sportsmanship and what can be achieved by a tr Read more

David Thornhill | Cashflow Expert

Back Office & Finance & Recruitment Business Administration Expert

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How to cut the red tape and focus on liberating your business to become more profitable

Where there’s a will there’s a way....here Simplicity MD David Thornhill explores the opportunities available to new start up recruitment agencies who don’t want to be strangled by t Read more

Philip Marks | Business Mentor

Recruitment Expert
Ex Board Director of Adecco (UK) PLC

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Do recruitment consultants provide you with an appealing shortlist and save you time or is the value minimal?

I was once bet a bottle of champagne to prove that Londoners were friendly by going up to three random people, separately and engaging them in a 3 minute lighthearted conversation. Do you get good cu Read more

Terry Edwards | Top Biller & Coach

One of the leading recruitment coaches in the UK

Top-biller with 2 of the UK's largest and most respected recruitment firms

Over 22 years recruitment experience

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Did you know that New Year's resolutions are a waste of time for most recruitment business owners?

I have just got back from my local gym and guess what; it was absolutely packed with people that I’ve never seen before together with people who I last saw 12 months ago. As a regular member of  Read more

Stephen O'Donnell | Online Recruitment

National Online Recruitment Awards (NORAs), Chairman

I have owned & run recruitment agencies since 1993

Online recruitment expert

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BEWARE CLIENTS WHO DON'T HAGGLE!

So you’re in the process of taking on an assignment from a new client.  The lead came via a candidate, and you responded quickly, so this is all being done over the phone.  The client  Read more

John Sponton | Work Psychologist

John Sponton BSc Hons, PgDip, MSc, MCIPD, C.Psycho

Director & Founder - Occupational Psychologist

Chartered and Registered Psychologist (HPC)

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Why is motivation important?

I was at a breakfast meeting the other day and one of the topics was, what are the most important qualities to measure when recruiting new managers into a business?  One of the attendees came ou Read more

Nicola McHale | Executive Coach

Executive Coach to Global Organisations Worked with Presidents & CEOs

American Express, Diageo, NHS Trusts

Microsoft, HSBC, Virgin Atlantic etc.

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Is your Business like a pressure cooker?

The media is full of articles about António Horta-Osório currently taking a temporary break from his role as Chief Executive of Lloyds Banking Group. 18,000 City workers suffered sickne Read more

Mike Walmsley | Recruitment Genius

Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading recruitment experts
Worked with over 100 UK recruitment business owners - The original 'SuperBiller'
Encyclopedic knowledge of recruitment techniques

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Don't push. Sell your service like a SuperBiller

What is it that defines a great salesperson in recruitment? Is it simply that prospect clients are more willing to buy from them? That they win more new business than average performers because of the Read more

Lee Biggins | Job Board Expert

Managing Director of award winning CV-Library

Job Board expert

Understands the recruitment industry inside out

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Finding the right balance

   Earlier this month I attended the UK Recruiter End of Year Conference. CV-Library had a good presence there, as the main sponsors, and it was great to be out of the office and speak to pe Read more

Greg Savage | Recruitment Icon

Career spanning thirty years, an icon of the Australian recruitment industry
Keynote speaker at staffing & recruitment conferences globally
A true recruitment legend

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Being a recruiter rocks!

I love being a recruiter. Seriously, I think it’s the best job in the world. Yet 80% of people who enter this industry, fail in the first 2 years, leave, and are never sighted again. And it&r Read more

Roy Crozier | IP Expert

IP Expert
Partner at Clarke Willmott LLP

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New court process for dealing with minor IP disputes

This time next year will see a new small claims process in place for intellectual property disputes at the Patents County Court. The new small claims process, confirmed by the Government yesterday, w Read more

Nathan Smith | PR Guru

PR Guru
Recruitment Sector and Social Media expert
There is nothing about PR I do not know

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A Healthy Business

The crisis at Lloyds Banking Group last week, when it was suddenly announced that new chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio was to take a leave of absence at the insistence of his doctors because of a  Read more

Lindsey Bell | AWR & Legal Expert

AWR & Employment Law Expert.

Partner at top ranked national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP

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Side-Stepping AWR?!

The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 ("AWR") brought the promise of increased rights and pay protection for agency workers. In reality, it appears that not only is the Swedish Derogation bein Read more

Keeran Gunnoo | Social Media Genius

Social Media Genius & UK's LinkedIn Expert!
Global Product Expert at LinkedIn

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Hungry Tiger, Hidden Talent

I think of recruiters as hungry tigers; waiting in great anticipation to source their next hire, and I often pose the question “how do you proactively source for passive talent” for exampl Read more

Ann Swain | APSCo CEO

A wealth of experience in Professional Recruitment

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Are talent shortages real - or the result of flawed recruitment processes?

Welcome to this, my first entry for what promises to be a hugely exciting new project. Deciding what to write about for a first blog can be a challenge. Fortunately, the APSCo conference took place th Read more

Stuart Britton | £20M Rec Company

£20m Recruitment Business Owner
100 employees
Pharmaceutical, Technology & Analytics Sectors

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Sharing the stage with Boris

Sharing the stage with Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, last week was quite a daunting prospect but as I’d been asked to talk about how Apprenticeships have helped our business over the last two  Read more