Boys and girls in blue at North Yorkshire Police had a problem last month when a recruitment campaign went awry after they received such a deluge of calls that their phone lines collapsed under the pressure.
The Heartbeat-style peelers advertised 60 vacancies and opened their application hot-line for three hours a day - when over 200,000 callers jammed the switchboard, crashing it and forcing them to call in BT to install a replacement post haste.
Remember that glorious night back in 2006 when the HR community gazed in awe upon the sight of Sathnam Sanghera being named HR Journalist of the Year?
No, us neither. But it seems Mr Sanghera is no longer as close to HR as he once was, given the spate of hateful articles he’s been publishing about the profession.
If this article in the Daily Mail is to be believed (and why on earth shouldn’t it be?) then Harriet Harman is preparing to introduce legislation to ban workplace discrimination against Northerners. Should it go through, then employers could run the risk of litigation should they, for example, serve quiche rather than flan in their canteens, and have Chas ‘n’ Dave on their hold music rather than Oasis.
Blackbird’s friends at HR search and selection business Oakleaf have released ‘Recruiting In A Recession’ – a study anticipating substantial changes to the way recruitment functions and their external partners do business.
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This week the Charity Commission warns organisations could be doing more to manage resources as the recession bites into the Third Sector – just as VSO acts by appointing Blackbridge as its new recruitment communications provider.
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