IT Recruitment Blog

Interview Advice Part 1

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Interview Advice Part 1
Don't be late, ever. I know its obvious but its important. Not even a little bit late and if you are going to be late, then don't.

Interview Advice Part 2

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Interview Advice Part 2
Be Professional before, during and after! Wear a suit, don't swear, change your email, change your answer phone,.

AWR Agency Workers Regulation

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:04:08 +0000

What is AWR?
In simple terms…… A piece of Legislation giving contract and Permanent workers equal rights.

Recession or off?

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:37:24 +0000

Recession or off?
Latest figures show that in the last 3 months of 2010 the UK economy decreased by 0.5%. However, TAG have seen a huge increase in IT vacancies at the start of 2011.

GMMXIE / GMMXLE / MMXLE

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:11:59 +0000

GMMXIE orGMMXLE or MMXLE - I needed to do a quick search this morning on Google and was presented with GMMXLE........ MMX I knew was 2010 but LE on the end (or IE)?? L is 50 so it kinda read 2040 (MM=2000 +10 from 50 = 40) and as far as I know there is no E in numerals!

Earn £500 for referring a new client.

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:17:47 +0000

Earn £500 by referring new business!

TAG IT Recruitment are again turning the tables on the industry and offering a £500 referral fee to any candidate that aids our business development activities by advising us of a current vacancy that we successfully fill.

Job Centre Plus

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:24:27 +0000

I'm proud to say TAG have now been awarded a contract by Job Centre Plus and are now supplying jobsearch support for newly unemployed IT and AV professionals.

Recruitment Survey

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:40:08 +0000

Hi, I am Glenn Lindley one of the directors of TAG Recruitment and a part time student at Christ Church University where I am currently studying for an MBA.

For the strategic Management module I am analysing the IT recruitment industry and comparing the current requirements and expectations of clients with the offerings of recruitment agencies. The results will form the basis of my thesis and also be used to align the services TAG recruitment provides with the requirements of clients.

If you havea minute spare please click here and awnser the 9 quick questions

A lot of people out of work.

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:16:52 +0000

You only have to watch the news or look at the vacant shops on most high streets to realise the state of the economy and I like most recruiters have found a majority of regular clients are not hiring or are in fact making redundancies.

However the real condition of the job market really hit home on Tuesday morning following the Easter brake. I placed an add on the Thursday before Easter for an IT support engineer to work in London with a pretty respectable salary of up to £35,000. I already had 2 or 3 good candidates in mind but placed the add to see if any superstars would apply.

Normally for a job like that I would expect between 20 and 30 applicants and of those 30 maybe 5 or 6 would be suitable. Tuesday Morning I logged into Outlook to find 340 CV's had been received in just 4 days!!!! It’s now Tuesday night and I have only managed to read through the first 20 of them and speak to 2 or 3....... It’s going to be a long slog! The worst part is that a of the first 20 I looked out a majority are currently out of work and about half where previously earning a lot more than £35,000.

Roll on 2010.

Web design

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:09:06 +0000

The TAG information email account probably receives 5 emails a week from companies that 'specialise' in designing recruitment websites and can offer an out of the box solution for upwards of £495. However having designed a few websites for friends and my football team (the mighty East Kent Mavericks) I figured I could save TAG some money by setting up, updating and hosting a new recruitment website. How wrong was I.......

Actually that may not be true, I am very happy with the new website, however if I was to put a value on my time and the amount of time it took to get the new site designed, up and running and the content added then it would have cost a lot more than the £495 some design companies offer and had I e-lanced it would have probably been even less! The finished site runs on Joomla and is hosted on Linux and Apache, so on going maintenance will be far less and will not have to pay a company for updates, but it did take a lot longer than planned.

The initial spec I set myself was for it to be functional and simple to navigate yet interesting and not "just another recruitment site", I also wanted IT people to be impressed with the technologies and gimmicks while regular users to not be confused and pleased by the aesthetics! A tough spec for a non professional designer but hopefully I came close to achieving it!

There still needs to be some integration between our vacancy database as currently new roles have to be added manually but other than that it is pretty much finished. www.tagrecruitment.co.uk any feedback gratefully received!

Any feedback would be gratefully received.