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• Weekly Tips (Tickets to the Recruiting Unconference)
• Article One (Top Tips for reducing your working hours successfully...by Heather Townsend)
• Jobs in Recruitment
• UK Recruiter Special Offer (Skills assessments in association with First Advantage)
• Online Recruitment Update (UK Recruiter Plus Favourites - Hitwise Top 10 Recruitment Sites - Louise's UK Recruiter Blog - Discussion Board Summary)
• Don't Miss This (PR: Recruitment Mergers, Acquisitions, Investment Opportunities and Partnerships - PR: Free Trial of Vacancy Intelligence Service - PR: CV-Library celebrates hitting two million CVs - PR: Recruitment Store Aiding Adamson & Partners to Continuously Improve - PR: Recruitment Event: The Big Conversation – Talent Matters - PR: TEAM and NPA Announce Strategic Alliance - PR: Jobsite.co.uk offers charities £millions in free volunteering vacancies)
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Weekly Tips

Free Tickets to Recruiting Unconference
We are giving away ten tickets to the Recruiting Unconference (normally £200 each) being held on 19th November in London. This is an event like you've never attended before. There are no presentation, strict agendas, powerpoint or anything you would associate with a traditional conference. You can view information about the "tracks" on the event website. To be in with a chance to win one of the ten tickets you simply need to share with us three websites you find useful in your role, and that you feel other recruiters would benefit from using. These don't have to be unique sites - just ones you regularly use. Enter the websites and your contact details here and we'll pick ten winners, randomly, at the end of play on Monday 9th November. 

The sites that you suggest may be used in this Weekly Tips slot in a future newsletter. 

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Article One:  Top Tips for reducing your working hours successfully...by Heather Townsend

It’s a sign of the times that many people within the recruitment industry are being asked to cut their working hours. From personal experience, I can tell you that successfully working part time takes time to re-adjust to and a requires different mindset to working full time. 

As someone that worked part-time for three years at my last employers, here are my top tips at achieving more whilst being a part-timer.

1. Choose your hours carefully

When choosing which days or hours to work, aim to pick hours that suit both the demands of your role AND your personal needs. For example if your team meets weekly on a Monday, it makes sense to be present for this team meeting. Be prepared for some give and take – for example, it is absolutely fine to ask that the weekly team meeting moves to a day you want to work – but be prepared that your request may be turned down. 

It tends to work better if you have a block of days when you are working. For example, mon-wed, tue-thu or wed-fri

2. Aim to hit the ground running

As a part-timer you don’t normally have the luxury of easing into the week. Your time is very precious – particularly if you HAVE to leave by a certain time to pick up children from a nursery or childminder. Work doesn’t magically disappear just because you have to leave at 16:00. Use your train journey into work (or an hour the night before a working day) to check e-mails and plan what you need to achieve in your working week.

3. Remote working

Particularly if you have young children make sure your IT department has given you access to e-mails and voicemails from home. By keeping an eye on the e-mail traffic on your days off you can often nip a problem in the bud before it blows up into a full scale crisis.

4. Build up your formal and informal lines of communications

You are now not going to be in the office day in day out, and so you have to put proportionally more effort into making sure you are still ‘in the know’. Who can you regularly lunch with to find out what’s going on? Make sure your voicemail message and e-mail signature clearly states your working hours/days. Also, when you are on a day off make sure your out of office message is switched on. 

5. Have a plan B

Your clients don’t always have needs which neatly can be solved on your working days. Make sure your colleagues are fully up-to-speed on your clients and the work you are doing for them. Have a nominated deputy or team member who your clients can speak to if you are off. Do let your team know a number that they can contact you on, for client emergencies.

6. Complete a handover

As you get ready to leave at the end of your working week, update colleagues on the progress/state of important work – plus anything that needs to get done in your absence. 

7. Be assertive

If you are not assertive about when you work and when you don’t work, you will find yourself working full time hours, but only getting paid for part-time hours - and completing work on your days off. Of course, there will always be exceptions but if you are not upfront about your working days and when you can or can’t be physically or virtually at a meeting, you will soon find yourself working full time hours.

8. Get used to saying ‘no’

It’s very easy when work is being divvied up to take on as much work as your full time colleagues. Remember if you only working part time hours your output is not going to be at the same level as your full time colleagues. You may need to remind your colleagues of this, particularly if they are sharing out work equally between the team. 

Heather Townsend is the founder of The Efficiency Coach – passionate about helping individuals and businesses achieve more for their time, effort and money. Contact Heather at The Efficiency Coach by phone, 01234 48 0123, or by e-mail: heather@theefficiencycoach.co.uk. Read more articles by Heather by reading her blog – The Thoughts and ideas of The Efficiency Coach

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Jobs in Recruitment

Here are a selection of the latest traditional, on-line and corporate HR recruitment vacancies from the Changeboard site:

- Recruitment Consultant - Warm Desk
- Money Driven Recruiter Wanted - Swindon
- HR Recruiter - Brighton
- HR Recruitment Consultant - Reading
- In-House Resourcing Specialist - East Midlands
- Senior Consultant, IT Recruitment - Manchester

The UK Recruiter job board is run in conjunction with Changeboard. We are currently offering free trials for recruitment consultancies to post their recruitment jobs. 

To set-up a free trial, please contact Bekki at Changeboard on 020 8675 8851 or email bekki@changeboard.com and quote UK Recruiter. 

This section is sponsored by Astoria.  Astoria Recruitment to Recruitment Ltd places recruitment personnel across the UK into recruitment jobs from trainee to director level; call 01793 770222 or visit www.astoriarec2rec.co.uk

UK Recruiter Special Offer:  UK Recruiter is pleased to announce that it is now offering skills assessments in association with First Advantage

Assessments from as little as £6 per test through to unlimited skills assessment for only £499 per annum!

First Advantage, a global provider of skills assessment, has recently been identified as a leader in candidate assessment by the independent research body, the Aberdeen Group.

With the First Advantage range of Skillcheck assessments, you can:
- Measure essential job knowledge and skills for a wide variety of positions
- Reduce test-taking time by up to 50% with time-adaptive technology
- Customise a test that precisely matches your job requirements 

SkillCheck Microsoft Office Test Products are available for:
- Office 2007
- Office XP
- Office 2003
- Office 2000

Skills Assessments Available:

Call Centre
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Clerical Office:
SkillCheck Clerical Office tests let you evaluate critical office and clerical skills, including business english and maths, typing, data entry, filing and coding, as well as telephone and office management skills.

Retail Sales:
With SkillCheck Retail Sales Assessments, you can measure knowledge and skills required for effective retail sales work.

Tests can be applied through your own online account that we set up for you and can be run at your office or at home via the eTicket system.

To set up an account and obtain tests for only £6 or for more details of the annual testing package at £499 per annum please contact pieter@ukrecruiter.co.uk or call us now on 07724 197830.  For more details about First Advantage visit www.FADVeurope.com

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Online Recruitment Update  

UK Recruiter Plus - Favourites
These are this week's favourite articles from UK Recruiter Plus as chosen by the UK Recruiter team: 
- An Introduction to Recruitment Blogs
- Choosing and registering a domain name (the 60 sec guide)
- Intelligent Online Recruiting
We are currently offering a £25 discount when you sign up to UK Recruiter Plus; the definitive online guide for the UK recruitment industry.  www.ukrecruiterplus.co.uk and a free trial  - www.ukrecruiterplus.co.uk/trial

Hitwise top 10 Recruitment Sites, week ending 30 October 2009
The most visited UK recruitment sites last week, starting with the most popular, were www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk, www.linkedin.com, www.totaljobs.com, www.jobs.nhs.uk, www.reed.co.uk, www.jobsite.co.uk, www.monster.co.uk, www.jobrapido.co.uk, www.tes.co.uk and jobs.guardian.co.uk. For more information about Hitwise, visit http://www.hitwise.co.uk

Louise's UK Recruiter blog
You can read Louise's UK Recruiter blog at http://ukrecruiter.typepad.com. She has recently posted about APSco Charity Ball. You can also keep up to date with other recruitment blogs from the UK via the UK Recruiter blog watch page at http://www.ukrecruiter.co.uk/blogs.htm. 

Discussion Board Summary
Don't forget to visit The Discussion Board. Current topics on the site include:
- Recruiters questioning Job Board standards
- Matrix SCM and Commensura
- Colchester Offices
You do not need to be registered to post or view messages on the discussion board.  Visit the site, ask questions and share your knowledge.  

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Don't Miss This 

Recruitment Mergers, Acquisitions, Investment Opportunities and Partnerships
UK Recruiter has recently recently added a new page its website where recruitment business that are for sale or are looking to buy are listed. This page is available for any recruiter or service provider in the industry to use. Projects are listed regardless of whether they come direct or via a corporate finance/vc company. These projects may be around the sale, purchase or request for investment in a recruitment consultancy, research firm, or supplier to the industry (eg, job board, software company etc). If you wish to list your current project simply send the full details to mike@ukrecruiter.co.uk and it will be publicised as soon as possible. An example is Project Hydra; A unique NHS PASA accredited healthcare recruitment and healthcare services group of businesses for sale. Based in the South East, Project Hydra has a number of long term healthcare contracts and has been operational in international healthcare recruitment since the mid 90’s. The current owners are seeking a strategic purchaser to help them capitalise upon their current market position. http://www.ukrecruiterco.uk/manda.htm

Free Trial of Vacancy Intelligence Service
"Suneese is in the vacancy intelligence provision business. They are offering one (daily) complimentary vacancy intelligence lead to any recruitment company that register with them. There is no catch, no obligation, and no fee. To qualify, agencies need to email them (not telephone) with the following information: Agency name and address details, Email address to send the daily lead to (must be a genuine business email address not hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc), Land line telephone number so they can contact the agency if need be (no mobiles), The sector and geographical area that the agency operate in so they can send an appropriate lead and Confirmation that the data provided will only be used for the purposes of canvassing the advertiser with recruitment services. They ask that people email rather than call for this complimentary service – they need to keep our telephone capacity available for subscribers. The email address to use is marketing@suneese.com. Why are Suneese giving away leads? They want agencies to subscribe to their commercial service and feel that by helping them with this complimentary service, some will eventually subscribe with them when they feel ready to do so."

CV-Library celebrates hitting two million CVs 
"CV-Library, one of the UK’s fastest growing job sites, has announced that it now has a remarkable two million live CVs registered in its online database. After hitting one million CVs in October 2008, CV-Library has managed to double this figure in only a year, growing from a two man office into a Hitwise Top 10 recognised site. This is particularly impressive considering it hasn’t had any corporate backing like many of its competitors, but has achieved organic growth. With 100,000 CV registrations and 379,000 job applications per month, CV-Library is extremely proud of its rapid growth. www.cv-library.co.uk"

Recruitment Store Aiding Adamson & Partners to Continuously Improve
"IP & Legal Search & Select Consultancy, Adamson & Partners have signed a contract with Recruitment Store to develop their valued team of Researchers and Consultants. Keiron Wright, Director of Adamson & Partners commented ‘We had been seeking for some time a people development partner who could demonstrate an excellent understanding of the ‘Search Marketplace’. It was very important to us that the training provider we brought in would not only be able to effectively present techniques but also be able to coach & mentor at the coalface when applying those skills. We are extremely pleased at the progression that has been made by partnering with Jonathan Jenkins of Recruitment Store and feel that all of us within our organisation have benefited from this action of continuous improvement. Recruitment Store specialise in the provision of recruitment specific training provision; improving presentation, development, motivation and leadership. Contact: Anne-Marie Tribe on 0800 970 2901 or 01273-320888"

Recruitment Event: The Big Conversation – Talent Matters
"The event is taking place on Thursday 25th November at the Cumberland Hotel in Central London, and includes a great line up of panellists with representatives from Deloitte, TUI, Mouchel and Balfour Beatty. The event is free to attend and you can register here: http://www.stepstonesolutions.com/thebigconversation/"

TEAM and NPA Announce Strategic Alliance
"TEAM - The Employment Agency Movement with members in the UK and Europe has entered into a strategic alliance with NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network with global headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Both organizations are engaged in the business of facilitating networking between their independent member agencies offering recruiting services across all sectors. The alliance has been formed to increase global business opportunities for the cumulative membership. Clients and candidates represented by these two networks will benefit from the worldwide connections and boundary-breaking reach that will be available from the combined networks of TEAM and NPA.  TEAM’s 300-plus members will gain access to NPA’s worldwide membership of nearly 400 premier independent recruiters to respond to the growing needs of UK and European based clients with demand for talent in North America, South America, Africa, and across Asia/Pacific. For more information on this release please contact: Liz Longman, TEAM UK Director on 023 9281 5565 or liz.longman@jobsatteam.com"

Jobsite.co.uk offers charities £millions in free volunteering vacancies
"Jobsite.co.uk, a leading online recruitment website, has launched an exciting new initiative enabling all charities and volunteer vacancies to be posted free of charge on Jobsite.  The UK’s charities and voluntary organisations are set to receive over £26.5 million of recruitment advertising a year thanks to the launch of this innovative new partnership, promoting their jobs nationwide to Jobsite’s 7million registered candidates.  Any charities or organisations looking to advertise on JobAid can call Jobsite on 0844 561 9333 or email jobaid@jobsite.co.uk. People looking for voluntary roles should visit: www.jobsite.co.uk/jobaid"

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