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		<title>Ardent Recruitment Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Ardent Recruitment Review (ARR). Having recently witnessed first-hand unprecedented times in the recruitment market we thought it would be very useful to provide some insight into, and regular commentary on, our sector and to expand this into a quarterly review and survey of finance and accountancy recruitment. Ardent has operated in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=35&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Times!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a very encouraging first half of 2008, when tales of the “Credit Crunch” and the “American sub-prime” phenomenon appeared distant and irrelevant, the later months of the year began to show just how tough times had become.   By late autumn it was not just bankers that were suffering; the world economy’s reliance on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=30&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Ardent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It exactly twelve months ago this week that I led an MBO to repurchase the Northern businesses of ECHM and Imprint plc and rebranded them as Ardent Search and Selection www.ardentselection.com I therefore make no apologies for this self serving posting!!!!!!!   We have had an encouraging first year as an independent business but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=28&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BNP or not to be? Is that a question</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed the follwing post on the Northern Recruiters Network discussion page and thought someone out there may have an opinion/ some thoughts&#8230;. &#8220;If you had a candidate whom you knew to be on the BNP list and who was interviewing at a client which you knew had an ethnically diverse workforce, would you tell your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=26&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are times about to change??</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a week. Barack Obama waiting for &#8220;W&#8221; to exit the Whitehouse and a 1.5% reduction in interest rates!! The first has never happened before and the second gives the UK our lowest interest rate (3%) since before the aforementioned Mr Obama was born. Given the depth of the economic mire that we appear to have talked ourselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=24&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light in the gloom? The FT comments on the recruitment market.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you read the FT&#8217;s piece at the head of the Recruitment section today? Click here to read the article. The main thrust is that the outlook for recruitment buinesses in the UK was fairly poor especially if they have large exposure to the &#8220;City&#8221;. In fact a number of the larger players including Michael Page [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=18&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The BusinessDesk.Com launches Executive Recruitment Advertising&#8230;good idea???</title>
		<link>http://ardentblog.com/2008/10/13/the-businessdeskcom-launches-executive-recruitment-advertisinggood-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheBusinessDesk.com operates an online business news service across Leeds and Manchester. The site and its newsfeeds have generally received good &#8220;press&#8221; and are aimed at delivering quality business news daily, even hourly on occasions!! The advertising proposition would be the region&#8217;s only dedicated online showroom of Executive and Board positions above £50k pa.  Is it a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=16&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More thoughts from Peter Brown (Ardent Financial Services) on the current recruitment market.</title>
		<link>http://ardentblog.com/2008/10/02/more-thoughts-from-peter-brown-ardent-financial-services-on-the-current-recruitment-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit, Risk and Compliance – the boom areas of Financial Services In the hunt for scapegoats for the current malaise one group in the Financial Sector has so far largely escaped censure and arguably had their career prospects enhanced. The rush for profits in recent years by investment banks, private equity and hedge funds in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=8&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ardent launches Financial Services division &#8211; good or bad timing??</title>
		<link>http://ardentblog.com/2008/09/30/ardent-launches-financial-services-division-good-or-bad-timing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the doom and gloom in the world’s financial markets it may seem an odd time top launch a Financial Services recruitment product but that is exactly what we at Ardent have done. Peter Brown has joined us to establish and grow a division focussed on the FS market. With over fifteen year’s experience in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=6&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Ardent Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Colgrave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello and welcome to the Ardent blog (AB for short from now on!!). I must admit to being a little nervous about my/ our first post on AB as I’m not quite sure what is expected from a recruitment blog as there aren’t that many around. I do know why I wanted to start AB [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ardentblog.com&blog=4871573&post=3&subd=ardentselection&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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