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Latest job index shows continued growth - great news for all job seekers!

The latest Reed Job Index report came out today, and shows continued growth in both the number of new jobs being advertised in February and in the salaries on offer. Great news for everybody! Click here to read the full report. Here at NLR we're certainly noticing a big increase in the number of new jobs we're being retained to work on, and also in enquiries for our Health & Safety training courses from our new Safety training division. Visit our website for further details or just call us! 0845 270 1640.

Recruitment Conference

I went up to London yesterday for a very interesting conference run by the Recruitment Consultant magazine. Several very interesting speakers presented their views on the current and future status of the recruitment industry and I came away buzzing with information and ideas. One thing that struck me and my colleagues was the amount of information held on the internet about job seekers and the potential implications of that on personal security. We discussed some ideas on how to improve that situation to help protect our job seekers from the security implications of placing so much personal information on the web. I'm going to mull a few things over during the weekend and see what we can offer our candidates to help make their online job seeking more secure. Watch this space :)!

Worldwide recruitment cover!

Great news this week - TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement - www.jobsatteam.co.uk), the UK's biggest network of independent recruitment agents,has joined forces with NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network (www.npaworldwide.com) to form the WORL'S LARGEST network  independent recruiters, meaning that we can now offer our clients and job seekers the best jobs and candidates frojm the USA, Canada and Australasia as well as the UK. Full press release as follows:

"NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network with global headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA has entered into a strategic alliance with TEAM - The Employment Agency Movement, based in the UK. Both organizations are engaged in the business of facilitating networking between their member firms offering independent recruiting, executive search and temporary staffing. 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. 

The arrangement provides NPA with a larger presence and more points of connection in the UK and across Europe. Once implemented, NPA members will have a new collection of recruiting partners to work with cooperatively to fill open positions and place employees throughout UK and Europe. The NPA-TEAM alliance creates a combined recruiting network of over 600 locations worldwide with coverage in a broad range of occupations and industries. “NPA is excited to have a working relationship with TEAM. We believe there is value for NPA members, TEAM members and for the clients and candidates represented by each,” states Dave Nerz, President of 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 all across Asia/Pacific. “To gain this access to a like-minded organization with a global presence offers TEAM members a real advantage,” according to Simon Garbett, Managing Director of TEAM.

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About NPA, The Worldwide Recruiting Network. NPA is an international, member-owned recruiting network facilitating cooperative, split-fee placements between its members. In 2008, NPA members shared over US$9 million in split-fee revenue. Founded in 1956, NPA has 420 member offices with more than 1,500 individual consultants in 25 countries on 6 continents. www.npaworldwide.com

About TEAM – The Employment Agency Movement. TEAM is the largest independent networked group of recruitment and employment service providers in the UK. With TEAM, a business gains all the advantages synonymous with a local agency whilst also benefiting from a substantial support network. TEAM has over 300 branch locations across the UK with a combine 1 billion turnover with an estimated 26,500 placements across the UK last year. www.jobsatteam.com "

Exciting new developments to help our job seekers

We've been thinking hard (yes, it happens sometimes :))at New Level about how we can help all our candidates maximise their chances of finding a new job in the current (somewhat scary!) economic climate. Obviously we can't magically create new jobs for you all, but what we can do is steer you in the right direction to get the help you need to present yourselves well on your CV and in interview, and also to give you some advice about the tactics of applying for jobs over the internet. The pitfalls of that one are many and varied, believe me!

Anyway, I posted a blog last week about the special discounts we've negotiated with a training company (see below) to give you advice on CV writing and interview techniques, so that's a start. We're also in negotiations with another company who offer online career advice, but more on that later.

The 2nd thing we're doing is turning our informal email updates into a regular scheduled free email newsletter (sign up below),  in which we aim to provide you with bits of news about the HSE industry along with job seeking advice and some special offers from time to time. We'll be sending the first one out in the next few days, to all the people already registered with us. If you're not registered with us and you'd like to receive our newsletter, then just visit our website (www.newlevelrecruitment.com) to sign up (sorry, having trouble making the sign up link work on the blog...).

We hope all this helps - do let us know! And if any of you have any ideas about good content ideas for the newsletter, feel free to send it our way!

 

Good news!

Good news - Jo is back from her adventures in Ningaloo (which is somewhere in the wilds of Australia!) on Monday and the blog will return to normal!

Have a great weekend!

Formatting

I'm not sure what has happened to the formatting of our blog and do apologise if it appears to be a bit of a mess. I'm looking into it... :)

Where's the blog gone?

Just a quick note to let you know that I haven’t forgotten to write the blog. I’ve been writing a marvellous one on transferring skills from one industry to another, but as we’ve been quite busy this week with new jobs and arranging interviews etc (it’s not all doom and gloom out there despite what the media says!) I’m afraid I haven’t had time to finish it. I’ll get on to it early next week. In the meantime, have a great weekend!

Another week and loads more interesting stuff learned!

Well, another interesting week in the New Level Recruitment camp, and all the team are off to enjoy a well deserved break. We've had a load of new jobs in this week, some of them particularly interesting to us as they involve industries we haven't really dealt with before - a requirement for an HSE Manager with an international  client in Nottingham who specialises in Cash Transfer Solutions for example (ref 0814), another requirement for an HSE Advisor with a Somerset company who manufacture the plastic pellets used by plastics extrusion companies (ref 0815) plus many others. We've also had a couple of new CDM-C roles in which are paying extremely well and above the industry average, so we're quite hopeful of filling those quickly too (ref 0816, 0817). That's just a few - there are many more on our website, so if you want to take a look, go straight to our jobs page to see if there's anything there that might suit you!.

We've been watching with interest the development of an H&S networking site being run by a friend of ours, Christian Hopper.There are a few other H&S networking sites out there I know, but this one seems to be a bit more interesting and better run than most. The url is www.safetynetworking.co.uk

We are still very excited by the upcoming roll our of our latest offering to our clients - a pre-recruitment audit, to help you ascertain exactly what your H&S requirements are and what level of health & safety professional your business needs PRIOR to actually writing the job spec. and instructing an agency - it could save everybody a lot of time and effort, as well as making it easier for the agency (hopefully New Level Recruitment!) to make sure they find you exactly the right person.

Ah well, that's it from me this week - it's a (relatively) warm spring evening and I'm off to enjoy my garden and recuperate my strength and enthusiasm for the week to come. I hope you all have a nice time too!

Needle in a haystack for the number ones!

Wow! What a great start to the week we've had! We've just had independent confirmation (from www.seodigger.com) that our site is now number 1 on the Google organic search pages for our main keywords - recruitment health and safety, and health and safety vacancies. This might not mean much to some of you out there, but those of you familiar with the black arts of SEO will understand what an achievement this is. Another good thing that happened was that our colleagues at Health & Safety at Work (www.healthandsafety-jobs.co.uk) were only just behind us, ahead of the SHP and some of the bigger more general job boards like jobsite! They've been working really hard over the last year or so to get their site up the rankings, and we're really pleased to see they're getting there.

On another note, we are very happy today because we've finally managed to find the perfect person for a particularly difficult to fill role we've been working on for some time. The client had very particular requirements and a very clear idea of the sort of person they needed, and it wasn't easy finding someone with all the necessary attributes, but we did it. As one happy client said "we asked you to find us a needle in a haystack, and you did!" When you work in recruitment the thrill of such praise more than makes up for any bad days.

Let's hope the rest of the week goes as well as today!