Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2011 21/03/2011
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Following the recent news that we won an award at the Toast of Surrey Business Awards, I’m pleased to share with our readers some further good news! We’ve been shortlisted at the annual Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2011.
The awards bring together both agencies and in house recruitment teams and celebrates the best achievers over the last 12 months. We’ve been shortlisted in no less than three categories this year: ‘Best Small Recruitment Agency to Work For’, ‘Best Client Service’ and ‘Best Engineering Recruitment Agency’.
I’m delighted to be shortlisted in these great categories, we work very hard to be an employer of choice, and provide the best level of service to our clients so to be recognised for this is a great achievement in itself. Whilst we are eager to win these awards to add to our ever expanding trophy cabinet, we are up against some tough competition so we know it won’t be an easy task! (more…)
CBSbutler – runners up at the Growing Business Awards 2010 26/11/2010
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CBSbutler were runners up at last night’s Growing Business Awards in the category of People and Performance.
The awards recognise small start up businesses in the UK with between one and 500 employees. The People and Performance category looked at companies that have introduced modern people management practices to transform their commercial performance.
CBSbutler saves the Festival of Science and Engineering 24/11/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, corporate social responsibility, Employment, Engineering, Recruitment, Surrey, Uncategorized.Tags: corporate social responsibility, Engineering, engineers, Jon Tickle, recruitment agencies, Surrey SATRO
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I am extremely proud to say that CBSbutler has saved the annual Festival of Science and Engineering! We have put forward the £10,000 needed by Surrey SATRO, the charity behind the Festival, to keep it alive.
In my eyes, the Festival is a major platform that is needed to promote STEM subjects to students in the Surrey area – to encourage and inspire them to study these subjects before eventually moving into a career within these fields. The Festival provides a brilliant opportunity for the scientists and engineers of tomorrow to show their peers and the local businesses just what they can do. (more…)
Another win for CBSbutler 17/11/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in Awards, CBSbutler, Employment, Engagement, Engineering, IT & Technical, Recruitment, Surrey.Tags: awards, Engineering, recruitment agencies, technical recruitment
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I am delighted to announce that we have won the ‘Best Recruitment Company to Work for £40-£100M’ category at this year’s Recruitment International awards! Another award to add to our ever growing collection!
I am absolutely ecstatic to have won this award, especially as our staff played a part in us winning! I believe we won the category through a mixture of the exceptionally high employee survey results – 92% overall satisfaction rating, the high regard from clients – 72% of them rated the agency better than the competition, plus the stimulating opportunities we offer staff that keeps them happy, dedicated and inspired in their roles. Offering individuals a stimulating career and not just a job is what’s important to us.
Is it doom and gloom for the jobs market?? 13/08/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Defence, Employment, Engineering, Job, Recruitment, Surrey.Tags: Engineering, recruitment agencies, technical recruiters, technical recruitment
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A recent CIPD survey has stated that the jobs market will stall as the demand for public sector jobs falls with 36% of them looking to lose staff. Posted on the BBC news website this all looks like doom and gloom and unfortunately when someone is being made redundant their radar for negative stories like this is on high alert.
So its times like these that we need some good news to instil confidence back into our job seekers.
For us here working in the private sector we are finding lots of reasons to be positive as we have some excellent roles available. Part of the reason for this is that we work across a range of robust sectors such as defence & aerospace, pharmaceutical, aviation, nuclear, rail and building services and have found that they have (and continue to be) reasonably stable.
So in the vein of reassurance here are a couple of hot (if only the same could be said of the weather!) jobs… (more…)
A win, win situation 30/07/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Defence, Engineering, Uncategorized.Tags: Engineering, PSL, recruitment agencies, technical recruitment
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Being on a preferred supplier list (PSL) is always a more secure way to do business with clients and we are constantly striving to strengthen our relationships in this way. Clients that have a preferred supplier agreement in place will use only those agencies on the list to fill their roles, so there’s a real benefit to us in doing this. Not only in protecting our business but also to get to know our clients better. Recently we’ve been working hard to sign up some of our best clients and are now pleased to announce that we’ve got the following clients on board:
- After a thorough procurement process CBSbutler has been selected to join QinetiQ’s first tier Preferred Supplier List for Permanent hires. QinetiQ is one of the world’s leading defence technology and security companies.
- CBSbutler has been selected as a 1st tier supplier to Emap, one of the fast growing business-to-business multiplatform media groups.
- CBSbutler became one of the most successful companies supplying Selex Communications on a permanent basis and so they decided to make us a 1st tier supplier for their contract hire too.
- The multi-million pound wireless test and measurement systems company Aeroflex have selected CBSbutler as 1 of only 3 companies to supply to them as 1st tier for both permanent and contract hire.
- HP – the biggest IT services provider in the world has made us a full approved supplier provider for both permanent and contract hires for HP -
As of course it’s not just about new customers, but also continuing to work with existing clients so we’re pleased that Boeing, one of the fastest growing defence companies in the UK, has renewed our 1st tier supply agreement for another year.
Not only is this good news for us, but also our candidates who will get access to some great vacancies that may not be advertised elsewhere or with other agencies.
Mark
Licensing for recruiters – the way forward? 29/06/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in Recruitment.Tags: APSCo, licensing, recruitment agencies
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Last week I went along to the APSCo debate on recruitment licensing – it was an interesting event with mixed opinions. Just over half of recruiters said that they wanted APSCo to explore the potential for licensing, with just over 40% voting against the move. It certainly seems to be an issue that divides people – some felt it would outlaw rogue agencies and boost industry standards, whereas others believed it would just increase bureaucracy.
Clearly, any initiative that raises the standards and removes unscrupulous operators from the recruitment industry will be well received. However, I’m not convinced that this is the right climate to promote additional business legislation and indeed when the government’s emphasis is on reducing red-tape. In addition, from my experience, licensing can create a fair degree of bureaucracy for organisations without necessarily combating rogue agencies or unscrupulous practices. I sit on the fence but remain un-convinced that this is the right time for championing or lobbying the proposed licence.
What are your thoughts – would you cast a vote for or against licensing? Leave your comments below.
David
Interview with a difference 09/06/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in Employment, Job, Recruitment, Uncategorized.Tags: candidates, employees, interview questions, recruitment agencies, technical recruiters
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A recent survey by SHL has found that almost half (49%) of UK candidates have a negative perception of an organisation following an unsuccessful job application. The areas that can often leave the candidate feeling like they didn’t get proper treatment range from:
- candidate not made to feel welcome on arriving at employer’s premises or even poor attitude/behaviours witnessed sloppy interview process – unstructured and lack of competency in interviewing skills
- an uninspiring interviewer – ineffective selling of the job and/or the employer’s value proposition
So that got me thinking, how can recruitment agencies help improve perception?? (more…)
Forget commuting – get your life back 30/04/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Employment, Recruitment, Surrey.Tags: employees, recruitment agencies, reward, technical recruiters
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I’ve been at CBSbutler since 2008 but before this like so many others did the weekday morning commute heading for an early start at my job as a recruitment consultant in London.
Despite the fact that Redhill has good accommodation, a great social life and infrastructure and a thriving local economy, too many skilled people have given up the idea of working here. And for companies like ours, that desperately need this level of talent to join our team and fuel growth, it’s a major headache. So, given the horror stories that pour out of practically any commuter at the slightest provocation, I’m not sure why so many people spend up to two hours hiking backwards and forwards to town every day? (more…)
Recruiter Awards 09/03/2010
Posted by CBSbutler Ltd in CBSbutler, Recruitment.Tags: awards, recruitment agencies, technical recruiters
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What better way to kick off the blog than to announce that CBSbutler has been shortlisted for no less than four awards in the 2010 Recruiter Awards for excellence!
We have already won two major awards over the past year – ‘Best Employer’ at the London and South East Recruitment Awards and ‘Recruitment Company of the Year’ at the APSCo awards and we are hoping to add some more to that list next month. We have been shortlisted for: Agency of the Year; Best Technical Recruitment Agency; Best Client Service and Best Recruitment Agency to Work For.
We are absolutely delighted – it’s testament to the whole team and the tremendous amount of enthusiasm and buy in to our behaviour and values model which really does influence the way we work with clients, candidates and our own people. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
