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Via @tonyrestell on Twitter

By   /  October 31, 2013  /  Your Voice  /  No Comments

Social Networking : Are You Working The Room? buff.ly/17eCJPD

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Government unveils reformed apprenticeships

By   /  October 31, 2013  /  News, Weekly Bulletin  /  No Comments

Employers will be able to create new apprenticeship standards under reforms announced by the Prime Minister. The reforms come as a result of the independent report, The Richard Review into Apprenticeships, and aim to improve the focus on high-quality training for the learner and ease of use for employers. A number of companies that took on […]

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More women in top level City roles

By   /  October 31, 2013  /  News, Weekly Bulletin  /  No Comments

The proportion of women reaching senior management positions in the City has doubled in the last year, according to research from recruiter Astbury Marsden. Twelve per cent of managing directors are now women, up from 6% recorded in 2012, and 19% of all directors and vice president are women – an increase of five percentage points since […]

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Specialist agencies urge government to look at gaps in childcare provision

By   /  October 31, 2013  /  News, Weekly Bulletin  /  No Comments

Rapid expansion of the childcare workforce is needed to cope with the expanding population across the UK, specialist recruitment agencies have told the Department for Education. REC Childcare, the REC’s specialist sector group that represents recruitment agencies who deal with childcare staff, domestic workers, nannies and au pairs, met senior government officials in October to discuss the government’s flagship childminder […]

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Social science graduates ‘more likely to be in work’

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Social science graduates are more likely to be in work after their first degree than graduates in other areas, and a higher proportion are in managerial and senior official roles, according to analysis of official data. Eighty-four per cent of social science graduates were in employment, compared with 78% of science, technology, engineering and mathematics […]

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Selling the job accurately

By   /  October 31, 2013  /  Featured Post  /  No Comments

New research suggest some candidates feel recruiters ‘mis-sell’ jobs to them. What can the recruitment agency do about it? Peter Crush finds out As important dates go, spring 2013 was a significant one for recruiters. It was at this point (for the first time since 2008), that the number of job vacancies broke the mentally […]

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Utilising recruiters’ specialist skills

By   /  October 30, 2013  /  RA Now Opinion  /  No Comments

A survey emerged this week suggesting that the average 10 hours a week that UK white collar professionals spend on activities outside the main remit of their jobs are threatening their specialist skills. PageGroup – formerly known as Michael Page – which commissioned the research, has described the phenomenon as ‘responsibility creep’. It says workers’ […]

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Via @Claire_Recruits on Twitter

By   /  October 24, 2013  /  Your Voice  /  No Comments

We need a new type of recruiter that is responsible for their own personal image says @LaurentChoain change your mindset #intalent

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Be motivated to understand your workforce

By   /  October 24, 2013  /  RA Now Opinion  /  No Comments

Solving the mystery of what motivates workers is one of the major goals of human resources directors, not to mention the assorted consultants and industries dedicated to employment issues. Millions has been spent on understanding what makes different age groups operating in the workforce more inclined to carry out their jobs to the best of […]

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IOR launches guide for in-house recruiters to work with agencies

By   /  October 24, 2013  /  News, Weekly Bulletin  /  No Comments

A business hiring guide has been published by the Institute of Recruiters to help internal recruiters and external agencies work better together. Outlining the various different ways to hire workers, the guide aims to highlight where businesses can draw staff from and how they can plan for long-term talent requirements. The IOR expects recruiters to […]

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