Don’t let Mr X get you on ageist job ads

I was listening to Radio Five Live tonight. Apparently, there’s a man (called Mr X) who has won over 100 legal disputes against companies over their ageist job ads. It turns out that Mr X is more in to profiteering than campaigning for the rights of all job-seekers. Mr X has had most success on the term [...]

Recruiters: If a jobs worth posting, it’s worth posting well

We’re sick of duplicate jobs. There’s such a powerful argument against doing it. Users don’t like it, search engines don’t like it, the REC guidelines suggest against it. So here at Nurses.co.uk we’re going to set ourselves the challenge of converting all healthcare recruiters to become better job advertisers. Our site, Nurses.co.uk, has 1000s of [...]

Poor nursing job adverts drive me nuts

Just for the record, those of us who work at Nurses.co.uk (a jobs web site for the UK nursing industry) don’t post the job advertisements listed on the site. Nor do we know any of the details about jobs. The jobs are posted by our clients, who are NHS Trusts and PCTs, recruitment agencies, care [...]

Nursing Degree – A Good Move

It has to be a good move to have a qualified nursing workforce who have all taken a degree course. The expectations placed upon the modern nurse are manifold. As well as therapeutic care and specialist experience and expertise, nurses are expected to manage often complex decision-making processes. Learning how to process those decisions is key. [...]

CV Watchdogs Let Nurses Down

Some job sites offer a CV Watchdog service. Nurses.co.uk chooses not to. I think CV Watchdogs can encourage bad recruitment practice. A CV Watchdog is a feature available to recruiters on some job web sites. They allow a recruitment consultant to receive a CV by email as soon as the CV is registered on the jobs [...]