Graduate vacancies ‘highest’ since 2007
The UK’s biggest employers are stepping up their graduate intake by 8.7% this year, research claims. This rise will take graduate vacancies for those leaving university this summer to their highest level since 2007, according to the study of the country’s one hundred leading employers by High Fliers Research. The biggest increases in recruitment are […]
Read More →Non-executive directors: ten attributes
Later this year, the European Parliament will vote on legislation to ensure that women fill 40% of non-executive directorships of quoted companies in the EU. Understanding of what the non-executive director role is growing. Daryl Stickland explains In many respects there’s never been a better time to take up a non-executive position. Although competition is strong, […]
Read More →Blue Monday can’t disguise economic growth
The third Monday in January is usually accompanied by a press release describing it as ‘Blue Monday’ – the worst working day of the year and one on which people are most likely to look for a new job. This year, that press release came two weeks early and the first Monday back to work after […]
Read More →Zero hours contracts: myths and realities
Rarely out of the news in 2013, zero hours contracts are now the subject of a government consultation. But how are companies actually using them? Jo Faragher finds out One of the most politically charged debates in the employment sphere during 2013 was the issue of zero hours contracts. Employers from Sports Direct to the […]
Read More →Working in a booming sector
Rapid expansion has characterised the oil and gas sector in various global locations. For recruiters in this niche too, business is booming. Matthew Branch, senior consultant at Petroplan, describes his experience of the sector. Following eight years as an IT recruiter, Matthew Branch moved into the oil and gas sector and joined Petroplan. After two […]
Read More →Miliband’s pledge to close Swedish Derogation ‘loophole’ angers recruiters
A row is brewing between Ed Miliband and recruiters after the Labour leader said his party would amend the Agency Workers Regulations to outlaw pay between assignment contracts (PBA) to address “understandable fears” about immigration. PBA, known as the “Swedish Derogation” under the 2010 Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) due to Sweden’s reliance on agency workers, […]
Read More →Increase in productivity needed in 2014, CIPD says
Productivity must dramatically increase in 2014 if wages are to rise higher than prices, according to the chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. Despite describing employment forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility as “looking conservative”, Mark Beatson added that if wages are to rise sustainably, employers and policymakers need to […]
Read More →Nearly one fifth of employees plan to leave their jobs in 2014
+UK workers feel sufficiently undervalued by their employer that 19% of them are preparing to move on in 2014, a survey has suggested. Of more than 1,000 people surveyed, 16% said they would leave because they did not think their employer valued them, the Institute of Leadership & Management said. Nearly one third (31%) said […]
Read More →UK services sector continued to hire throughout December
Rising workloads throughout December led to companies in the services sector increasing their payroll numbers at a marked pace, the first Markit/CIPS UK Services Purchasing Managers’ Index of 2014 has revealed. Employment rose at a sharp pace for a twelfth successive month in December, and confidence was at its highest level among the members of […]
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