This week the Sunday Times held a conference to share insight and experience on how recruitment outsourcing has affected organisations. Delegates debated the benefits and potential pitfalls of a move to recruitment outsourcing. Leading senior executives also presented the business case behind their decision for implementation or why they decided that recruitment outsourcing was not for them.

Here we present the highlights as podcasts for you to download.

Recruitment outsourcing Question Time

A Question Time style panel was hosted by Peter Sissons. Panelists Anna Tomkins the resource operations manager at Vodafone, Karen Ann Allchurch the head of HR operations at Easyjet, James Kneller the HR director at Abbey and Mark Lee the director of recruitment process outsourcing at Reed Managed Services discussed the benefits and pitfalls of an in-house versus outsourced recruitment strategy.

Click here to download podcast of the Question Time

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The relationship between client and supplier

In this podcast James Kneller the HR director at Abbey and Paul Mallinson the managing director at Hays Resource Management provide an insight into the relationship between client and supplier

Click here to download podcast of the presentation on the client-supplier relationship

Download notes: For PC users, right-click the link, then select 'Save Target As' and download to the selected location on your computer. For Mac users, hold down Ctrl and click the link, then select 'Save Target As' and download to the selected location on your computer. (This podcast is sponsored by Hays Resource Management)

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