Jobs growth in Scotland signals economic recovery
Scottish recruiters have linked sharp recorded increases in permanent and temporary staff placements during October to greater client demand. The latest Report on Jobs from the Bank of Scotland showed the growth in permanent vacancies in accelerated in October to its fastest pace since July 2007. A marked improvement in Scottish job market conditions – […]
Read More →Companies back campaign to target unemployed through recruitment processes
Manpower Group and Pertemps are among 15 ‘champion businesses’ leading an initiative to help businesses recruit unemployed people by changing their recruitment processes. A further 90 businesses have backed the campaign by pledging to adapt their recruitment strategies to include the unemployed. The Generation Talent initiative, led by the charity Business in the Community (BITC) […]
Read More →British people more ‘confident’ about getting a job than three months ago
Overall national job confidence has increased by 1.7 points in the last three months, rising from 51.8 to 53.5 out of 100, according to the Job Confidence Index from the National Careers Service. Research for the index, which measures overall job confidence as well as job confidence among the unemployed, shows that 76% of the […]
Read More →Look after smaller businesses to keep recruitment innovative
Recruitment agencies form a diverse sector. Running the gamut of large multinational, multi-sector staffing businesses, medium-sized companies with offices in a range of locations and smaller-sized enterprises with one or two branches, the industry embraces all kinds of organisation. It also celebrates entrepreneurial talent, and the sheer number of start-ups doing great things is testament […]
Read More →How in-house recruiters and agencies can work together
In-house recruit teams are no longer just the preserve of large corporates. So how should agencies ensure they can still play a major role in recruitment strategies? Jo Faragher finds out A trend thought to have been evolving for some time now is becoming of increasing concern to agency bosses. The idea that in-house recruiters […]
Read More →UK capital named top employer for high-skill sectors
London employs more high-skilled people than any other city in the world, but infrastructure, housing and immigration challenges must be dealt with to manage the predicted growth in these jobs, a report has found. The capital city is the largest employer in 12 out of 22 high-skill sectors identified in the report from professional services […]
Read More →Government targets employers taking on interns to tackle exploitation
HM Revenue & Customs is to carry out a series of targeted checks on 200 employers who have recently advertised intern opportunities and unpaid work. As part of government plans to crack down on the exploitation of interns – including illegal non-payment of the national minimum wage – the tax department has written to the […]
Read More →Vacancies up from this time last year, government says
Further signs of jobs growth have emerged over the last three months, according to the latest employment figures from the Office for National Statistics. There are more than half a million job vacancies currently in the UK economy, an increase of 62,000 over the last year. The number of adults in work has also risen […]
Read More →Link between economic growth and youth unemployment is ‘broken’, says think tank
Nearly one third of young people have been looking for a job for more than one year, and economic growth alone won’t get more 16 to 24-year-olds in the workforce, a report has suggested. Despite the drop in the number of young people out of work by 9,000 to 965,000, according to the latest figures […]
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