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​🌍 Happy Earth Day 2025! ​🌍 ​This year’s theme — Our Power, Our Planet — is a call to recognise the impact we can have when we come together to protect our environment. From individual choices to collective action, we all have a role in shaping a more sustainable future.​Let’s use our power to make a difference — for our communities, our industries, and our planet. 💚​#EarthD...

​Happy International Recruiters Day 2025! 🎉 Wherever you are in the world, recruiters are making an impact. You’re not just filling jobs—you’re building futures. 💼✨ Today, take a moment to reflect on the lives you've changed, the careers you've helped shape, and the businesses you’ve helped grow. From all of us at Ruella James, a heartfelt thank you to:  👉 Every recruiter ...

​🚀 Is your hiring process truly inclusive? 🚀​This Neurodiversity Celebration Week, let’s talk about hiring practices. Too many talented neurodivergent candidates are still being excluded by outdated recruitment methods. It’s time for change!​🔹 Ditch the jargon—focus job descriptions on essential skills🔹 Rethink applications—offer video submissions or alternatives🔹 Train your...

​Celebrating ​25 years in the London R2R space! 🤦‍♀️I cannot believe where the time has gone.I’ll admit it’s been a rollercoaster ride at times, but so grateful to everyone who has supported us over the years.A huge thank you to all the fantastic Recruiters who have entrusted us with their recruitment careers, and our fabulous loyal clients who have given us many lovely oppo...

​If you’re looking to up your Recruitment game for you and/or your teams, there is a multitude of quality FREE resources to tap into.Gone are the days when “free stuff” was basic and purely to capture our ‘details’ as lead magnets.So, this month we’ve highlighted a small selection below to get you started!🎯 TRAININGGreg Savage - Quite simply a recruitment training legend - d...

​A Career For All Ages The over 50s could solve the UK’s talent shortage Jeremy Hunt has urged older people to return to the workforce, saying that the country needs them and that he is looking at ways to make ‘work worth your while’. The evidence is compelling; a third of people made redundant during the pandemic were over the age of 50 and I find that really disappoint...

​STOP PRESS!!!​We have increased our referral fee to £750 for experienced recruiters (with 1 years plus experience) for the month of July. ​If you know anyone who maybe interested in discussing their options, please let us know their details by the end of this month. ​Full details can be viewed here.  Have a great week!​​

​THIS WEEKS BEST OPPORTUNITIES.All hybrid/Based in London.These are all 360 roles aside from the Delivery/Resourcer Roles.🌟Junior Recruiters - £30-£35,000Must have some recruitment experience, have 360 skills for a financial services recruiter, small boutique.🌟Office Support Recruiters - AD/Managing Consultant Temp and Perm. £35-65,000. Perm Consultant roles are warm desks.🌟...

​​So what exactly is International Recruiters Day?IRD is an annual event celebrated on the first Thursday in April to recognise and appreciate the efforts of recruiters and talent acquisition professionals worldwide.Founded by Stephen O’Donnell and the NORA Academy Ltd in 2011, the day highlights the important role recruiters play in connecting candidates with suitable job o...

​Revisitng a special guest on our Podcast - Ruella Talks Recruitment, none other than the founder of a personal branding agency, Klowt, Amelia Sordell. ​Ruella and Amelia sit down to discuss why personal branding is so powerful, how to start your own, and much more. ​Listen in for unique insight and practical advice for all things branding. ​If you want to market your busin...

​A BIG THANK YOU ​This December, we are proud to celebrate 24 years specialising in Recruitment to Recruitment. ​Ruella James was launched in 1999 with the aim of being the Recruitment to Recruitment Consultancy of choice for our Clients and Candidates. ​Like many companies, we have been through ups and downs, over the years but with a fabulous client base and so many great ...

​🎉 Thank you! 🎉 …  We'd like to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of our clients and candidates for entrusting us with their critical hiring needs... AND we are thrilled to share some of our recent placements at the senior end of the market!  If you are seeking exceptional talent for your agency or if you are a candidate looking for an op...

​Such a fabulous person to have in our business.Resiliance and kindness beyond measure!Claire just never gives up when it comes to finding the best opportunities for her candidates!Happy Anniversary Claire Harvey#happyanniversary#thankyou#rec2rec

​Happy 1st Anniversary to the wonderful Amelia Trythall and Freya Hughes 🥂You have both fitted into the company so well, have developed strong relationships with our clients and have made some excellent placements in the Graduate/Trainee market.Wishing you a very successful 2nd year in recruitment.Thank you for all of your efforts the past year 💜

​It’s a lovely feeling when one of your team celebrates a significant anniversary in your business.Last year it was ️Sarah Richardson with 23 years. Last week Katie Wakeling with 20 years and this week it’s Karen Dixon with 14 years!Karen and I go back even further than that though. We first worked together at the Accounts Team a subsidiary company of Office Angels and she w...

​We are excited to welcome Freya Hughes to the team.Freya will be helping expand our Trainee Division alongside Amelia Trythall, this is a really busy area for us, especially at this time of year with the Graduate season fast approaching.Freya has recently worked as an Associate Consultant in Education Recruitment, so she has a good sense of the recruitment sector.Welcome Fr...

​​We are excited to welcome Amelia Trythall to the Ruella James - Recruitment to Recruitment team.Amelia will be helping to expand our Trainee Division, a really busy area for us, especially at this time of year with the Graduate season fast approaching.She has recently graduated from university where she studied European Politics and Languages. She is currently enrolled in ...

​Ruella James has been named as a finalist in this years ‘Linked In Talent Awards’ in the category of:⭐️Search & Staffing Talent Engagement Award: Under 20 Employees⭐️We can't believe it.LinkedIn has chosen these finalists based on how we use our data and the engagement we have and give on LinkedIn.The past 18 months have seen us completely transform how we operate.From buil...

​​Do you need help creating content on Linked In that actually works?Ruella Crouch will be LIVE on Linked In at 1:30pm TODAY!Ruella will be joined by  Pete Ames, Head of Product at  Flair Business Growth Consultancy Ltd.They will be discussing:✅ Writing content that works!✅ What's happening with the algorithm!✅ What posts work best!And much much more in 30 minutes........Th...

​Join Ruella Crouch for her next LinkedIn Live Show on Tuesday 22nd June at 1:30pm,Ruella will be joined by Louise Archer, Founder of Retrained Search.This weeks topic is... Why Retained Search?Have you focussed on a contingent recruitment model and your business is now considering introducing a retained service?This session will have lots of top tips on how to sell a retain...