Blog - A Recruiter’s Perspective

Recruitment Agencies – time for some harsh truths. One of the perennial problems recruitment agencies face, is attracting new business in an increasingly competitive environment. The global downturn has brought this issue to the fore and has seen some recruitment agencies reduce their fees and margins, in order to gain or maintain market share. I am personally of the op ..

The average number of applicants per job rose in 2011 to 83, from 69 in 2010, 49 in 2009 and 31 in 2008, new figures published by the BBC claim. Here at Elite Employee we are not so concerned with numbers, but with the amount of exceptionally good applicants for every role, and in reality, this number has, if anything slightly decreased. What does this mean? – It ..

I spent some time recently analysing our latest placements. We have a policy here at Elite of only dealing with and supplying staff into our clients, that we personally would want to deal with and work with on a daily basis. Call it gut instinct, but we like to think that we get a 'feel' for which candidates will fit in best into which clients. The difficulty here being that the vast majo ..