CV Alerts – again

In two out of four meetings yesterday I was asked why we don’t offer CV alerts. I’ve talked at length about this previously. But it’s worth reiterating the key principles as I see them: I think, undoubtedly, CV alerts are a good thing from the perspective of a recruitment agency. I’m less convinced they work [...]

Being chatty

Running a jobs board can make you feel a bit like an outsider, neither one thing or the other. Take our small team of 8 here at Nurses.co.uk; you could argue that we’re neither recruiters or representatives of the nursing industry. I’d strongly argue that we are, partly, both. We certainly understand and have experience [...]

Nursing recruiters: How to prepare your nursing job ad

This short blog is for direct employers, rather than professional recruiters. It follows a phone call I had last Friday. A care home manager, running her own nursing home (EMI), asked if her job ad needs to look like the other job ads on our care home jobs board, Carehomejobs.com. I said, probably not. The [...]

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 [...]

Nurses – Thou Shalt Not Two-time Your Recruitment Consultant

I had a phone call from a nurse yesterday. She was job hunting and had decided to turn down one job that she’d been offered through a nursing recruitment agency. Oh dear, I said. Worse than that though: she hadn’t told them. Even worse still: she wanted me to give her the phone number for another [...]

Evolving Demands For Jobs Boards

In the early days of online recruitment (late 90s, early noughties) the challenge was education. Some clients didn’t even use email. Classified recruitment ads in trade print media worked OK most of the time. There didn’t seem to be a need to change. The challenge was to demonstrate change could be more efficient and cost-effective. [...]