Strive, Supply Chain Management Recruitment

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR ! - 22/12/2011

...to all our valued Candidates and Clients we wish you much success in 2012. ...

NEW ACCOUNT WINS AT STRIVE = OPTIMISM FOR 2012. - 22/12/2011

Despite all the gloom and doom we are pleased to announce that Strive have been selected by a major hi-tech retailer to recruit a full team of Line / Shift Managers to operate from their NDC. Add to this the further expansion nationally of our agreements with 3 FTSE 100 Clients to cover various other operations. Overall it gives us a great deal of optimism going forward into 2012 as clearly the demand is still there - lets pray that this continues!....

CENTRAL RESOURCING vs. CONSULTANCIES? - 13/10/2011

It would appear that more and more larger organisations are turning to `central resourcing teams` to rely on their recruitment needs. So, as recruiters is time for us to pack up and look for pastures new?!. Whilst we perfectly understand the need to reduce costs on agency spend and to some extent take ownership of `the process` we wonder whether Clients are also just sick of a poor level of service from recruiters?. Whichever route a company takes to fill vacancies - especially in larger quantit...

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE... - 13/10/2011

..another credit crunch hits. Unless something is done soon then this will be even worse than the last one. Clearly it does beggar belief to watch our European leaders suddenly realising that Greece may default, to potentially be followed by Italy, Portugal etc. We knew this was coming a long time ago - so why are they suddenly in panic mode?. This is the equivalent of sweeping a monumental problem under a huge global carpet and hoping that it would go away. The UK jobless figures are truly bad ...