The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Friday the 16th September saw a celebration of ReThink’s academy consultants flying the nest to full target-dom and getting lots of praise, booze, food and money in the process.
A massive congratulations to the academy graduates: Chris Walker – Bristol, Wayne Hay – London, Qamar Khan – London
The day started off with a number of presentations for Andy (MD), Midge (Director), Christine (Contracts manager Bristol), Guy (Contracts manager London) and Fiona Lander (of Lander Associates) delivered by the academy graduates. Thankfully I did well in keeping my composure throughout the presentation which lasted the best part of 20 minutes.
‘Like a human sponge’ is the best way to describe how I felt during an intensive two-day recruitment training course I attended last week. The course director, experience in recruitment equals my entire 22 years of existence and therefore, his wise words of wisdom were frantically scrawled down at every available opportunity.
There was 8 of us ‘newbies’ attending the course, all of whom came from diverse recruitment backgrounds but all of whom had one thing in common: eagerness to learn. The material we were originally aiming to cover was vast but the trainer did a fantastic job in tailoring his action plan to our individual needs. It was reassuring to discover that others had similar concerns to me and no matter how silly they seemed, we were able to voice them in the safe, classroom environment. Read the rest of this entry »
Newly launched this year our Introduction to Team Leadership has been a real hit with our delegates and some of them wanted to tell you about it!
It was a truly enlightening APSCo meeting last week with the main theme being around CSR in it’s many forms. CSR is often treated as a cynical add-on by organisations but the speakers really highlighted the commercial, moral and social benefits of proactively “doing” CSR in our individual organisations. What was really great was the feeling you got that every little counts however you did it , and that it didn’t matter if you tried something and it didn’t work out; you could always try something else.
Jacquelyn Collins from Slaughter and May was refreshingly frank about how their policy had evolved and changed as they had experimented and sought to find how different people internally could be involved, whilst Natasha Honan from the Heart of the City Programme showed us the huge range of initiatives that organisations had discovered they could get involved with; some you would never think of.
Finally we heard from APSCo’s own preferred charity Childline where Annette and Derek gave us the shocking fact that because of a lack of resources they are unable to take all the calls from children that come in. This fact alone should inspire us as APSCo members to go that further step in order to support Childline.
It was an inspiring meeting and judging by the conversation over drinks afterwards, many of us were moved to action!
Here at Lander Associates we are dedicated to our CSR policy and have been fund-raising for Childline for a number of years. The whole team get involved and we are always looking for new ways to contribute more, watch this space!
Posted by Julian Evans - Julian, an acknowledged recruitment industry training expert in both the UK and Europe, recently joined the award winning team at Lander Associates. With over 20 years experience and an award winning head of learning and development, he is currently completing his masters in management learning and leadership.
The Recruitment Society launches in the Midlands!
The inaugural Recruitment Society meeting for the Midlands was held this week with a full panel discussion on ‘Beyond Social Resourcing – What next?’ Discussions centered around Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Whilst the first two were seen as a way of building your brand and establishing relationships, all members of the panel believed caution was required when approaching candidates for the first time via these sites. Read the rest of this entry »
Sam Woodward of BlueSky PR recently sat in on our Fast Track Induction course, here is her review that was featured on Louise Triance’s UK Recruiter blog:
Although my work is focused on recruitment, I’m a PR person, not a recruiter. So when I went along to a recent training course for recruiters I didn’t really know what to expect.
Lander Associates is a client of ours and specialise in training and development for the professional recruitment sector, so last month I went along to their Fast Track Induction…with a 2010 twist to observe and see what it was all about. All the delegates were new to the recruitment game – some had a few months of experience, others as little as eight days! So in effect it was “Recruitment 101” – all the basics taught over a two day period. It was a full course but even that meant only ten recruiters – a good number for an effective and interactive experience. Read the rest of this entry »
