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A major new independent survey of over 1000 UK jobseekers and employers has painted a troubling picture of an unregulated industry with no barrier to entry and wildly fluctuating service levels.
These include an over reliance on technology and shady practices such as publishing fake job advertisements as a way of getting people to sign up with their agency.
The research: “Trust in Recruitment”, undertaken by Explain The Market for the peer-to-peer recruitment recommendation platform AnyGood? found that over half of all respondents (52%) that have used recruitment agencies in the past year did not feel that they were dealt with honestly and less than 5% would trust a recruitment agency to advise them whether a role or candidate was right for them.
“Based on my career in pharmaceuticals, education and the charity sector, I can only think of one or two recruitment consultants that I have ever trusted”, said one London based jobseeker.
Specific problems cited by respondents included the fact that recruitment agencies rarely put the needs of an individual hirer or jobseeker above making a profit, often have little industry or sector expertise, don’t listen to requirements and post fake job advertisements to lure in talent.
There was also a feeling that recruiters relied too much on technology with over 90% stating that it was important to ensure that recommendations came from real people and not algorithms.
“You don’t really trust an app or a website on its own. I need to talk to the people who are really in the know about the job,” said one respondent – a hiring manager from a property business.
A job seeker from Birmingham said: “Everything is online, no issue with that. I can’t see that trend ever slowing down but sometimes I feel like I’m written off before anyone has a chance to get to know me or even talk to people who know what I can do.”
“This is an industry ripe for disruption,” says Juliet Eccleston founder of AnyGood? a platform where professionals recommend their peers for roles.
“Let’s be clear – there are undoubtedly good honest recruitment firms out there but it is also apparent that trust in the recruitment sector as a whole is at an all time low.
“What we have today is an under regulated unlicensed third-party intermediary with levels of service that simply would not be tolerated in any other sector.
“Think estate agents and Purple bricks. Think travel agents and Airbnb. Then think recruitment agents – with our research showing that over 45% of respondents were now using recruitment agencies less or not at all, the writing may well already be on the wall.
“This research is just the start of a campaign to clean up the sector – it’s being openly shared and we hope that it can be the start of a conversation for change.”
Posted by jeffrey davies on 25 August 2018
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fraudsters hay Priti Patel received £17,000 payout – from the public purse – after being forced to quit Cabinet role
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No wonder she was smirking: Priti Patel leaving 10 Downing Street after being forced to resign.
This is despicable.
The public have been made to pay the cost of a “golden handshake” for Priti Patel, who was forced to leave her job in disgrace.
Ms Patel was told to resign after it was revealed she was trying to carry out her own foreign policy, independent of the Conservative government, holding meetings with senior Israeli politicians while supposedly on holiday.
This Writer thinks a prison sentence would have been more appropriate.
Priti Patel walked away with a pay-out of nearly £17,000 after being forced to resign as International Development Secretary , the Standard reveals today.
She received the sizeable “termination” payment despite admitting she blundered by holding unauthorised meetings in Israel last summer, including with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Brexiteer Ms Patel was humiliatingly summoned back to London from East Africa in November to be axed from the Cabinet by Theresa May. At the time ministers are dismissed or resign, the Cabinet Office refuses to disclose if they are given pay-offs, despite them being funded by the taxpayer.
It still will not say if Boris Johnson received a payment when he quit as Foreign Secretary last month over Mrs May’s Chequers Brexit blueprint, or if David Davis did when he stood down as Brexit Secretary.
But details of the payment to Ms Patel are in the Department for International Development’s recently published annual accounts for 2017-18.
Posted by jeffrey davies on 23 August 2018
why is it now by the time this is put up a poor soul in agony hasn't made the headlines we being fed their truths A woman in evidently desperate straits has set fire to herself in the housing office of Tory-run Barnet council – and the mainstream media appear to have ignored the incident entirely.
The parent of an eyewitness described the incident:
My daughter took her mother to an appointment at Barnet Council ( Tory) housing office yesterday afternoon. They were being interviewed in a side room when they heard a commotion. Someone came and told them to leave the building.
When they left the room they saw flames on front of them in the waiting room. A woman had set fire to herself. Everybody was just turfed out after witnessing this terrible ordeal. She said that those outside were in severe shock but left to their own devices.
There hasn’t been a word about this in the news or local news. This is Tory Britain . How often is this happening and going unreported? My daughter was still very upset and had to spend the night with her mum.
A passer-by recorded video of gathered emergency vehicles and evacuees:
Posted by jeffrey davies on 21 August 2018
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it wasn't long ago virgin atos health care handed back their contracts that they couldn't make any monies from hmm Virgin handed £2bn worth of NHS England contracts
Brexit 'power grab' poses a 'major threat' to the National Health Service, warns SNP.
Posted by Welfare Weekly - 11th August 2018
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This week’s news that £2 billion worth of NHS England contracts are being handed over to Virgin Care Services, which follows on from the damning report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee last month into the outsourcing of primary care services in England to Capita, has highlighted how the Tories’ shambolic Brexit poses a major threat to the future of the NHS in Scotland, the SNP has said.
SNP Health spokesperson at Westminster Dr Philippa Whitford MP has warned that the power grab over public procurement allows the Tories at Westminster to put Scotland’s NHS under the same threats as the health service south of the border, with the Tories able to open up Scotland’s public services to profiteering firms.
In addition – the increasing threat of a disastrous No Deal Brexit will leave the Tories more desperate than ever to secure a trade deal with Donald Trump’s administration, no matter the cost to our public services. Prime Minsiter Theresa May has continually failed to rule out opening up the NHS to private US firms post-Brexit.
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Commenting, SNP MP and Health Spokesperson at Westminster, Philippa Whitford, said: “The news we’ve seen this week of £2 billion worth of NHS England contracts being handed over to a single private firm sets a dangerous precedent and last month’s report by MPs which decribed the outsourcing of primary care services in England to Capita as a ‘complete mess and a shambles’ shows exactly what the Tories would do to our NHS in Scotland given half a chance with the procurement powers they have grabbed from Scotland.
“This is why the Westminster power grab over procurement after Brexit is so worrying – with the Tories in charge of procurement laws and policy, the Scottish Parliament and its voters would lose control over how our key public services are delivered with the future real threat of being opened up to profiteering firms from across the Atlantic.
“Theresa May has already failed to rule this out on multiple occasions – and as the Tories get ever more desperate to secure a trade deal with Donald Trump at any cost, we can be sure that our NHS will be in their sights.
“The Tories are making a mess of the health service south of the border – opening it up to private companies in shambolic fashion, leaving ordinary people needing proper and effective care to pay the price.
Posted by jeffrey davies on 19 August 2018
