Self-employment positive for the upturn, PCG says
The rise in self-employment is a long-term structural change in the workplace, not a cyclical occurrence based on an unhealthy jobs market, the PCG has stated in response to a TUC report. Earlier this week the Trades Union Congress reported that self-employment has accounted for 44% of all employment growth since May 2010. Pensioners, part-time […]
Read More →Skills deficiency in UK could hold back recovery, research suggests
UK businesses suffered a drop in training four times greater than any other European country during the recession, according to JP Morgan and IPPR research. The result of this is a skills deficiency that threatens to hold back economic recovery across Europe, according to the research, called European Jobs and Skills: a comprehensive review 2014. […]
Read More →Stronger links between schools and professional community needed, statutory guidance states
Schools should be connecting better with their local employer and professional community in order to improve careers guidance under statutory guidance announced by the Department for Education. The revised guidance – Careers guidance and inspiration in schools – forms part of plans to reform the education and skills systems to better support young people for […]
Read More →Ten top-tier recruiter tips for 2014
What are the best recruiters focusing on doing this year? Sade Church explains 1. Warm one-to-one relationships with candidates are critical Establish a real relationship with your candidates as soon as you can, because they’re already beginning to edge away from the level of ‘noise’ in the world around them. 2. Yes, mobile is relevant to recruiters […]
Read More →‘We’d love to see more recruiters getting into placing apprenticeships’
Agencies are increasingly a crucial part of the apprenticeship system. But what does taking on apprentice candidates mean for the recruitment sector? Peter Crush finds out Whatever you might think of them, apprenticeships – the post-school jobs route that suffered a severe crisis of confidence during the 1990s – are well and truly back. Thanks […]
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Read More →A visible commitment to good recruitment practice
In the lists of the least trusted professions that are covered in the media from time to time, recruitment consultants do not tend to make the top ten. That is usually reserved for estate agents, journalists, politicians, and more recently, bankers. But the sector does have an image problem. Quite aside from horror stories of […]
Read More →Personality questionnaires: candidate 101
Candidates taking personality questionnaires for the first time are often apprehensive about the process. Gavin Mulcahy answers some frequently asked questions. Personality questionnaires remain popular for some clients to use with their candidates. But many job hunters have never completed one before, and may be concerned about what the company is assessing. Below are some […]
Read More →Recruitment directors to be penalised for unpaid taxes due to false self-employment
Recruitment agency directors will be held personally liable for unpaid tax and potentially national insurance as a result of self-employment claims, according to the finer details of the new Finance Bill. Recent amendments to the bill identified recruitment agencies as liable for any unpaid tax and NICs for self-employed temporary workers in their supply chain, […]
Read More →EU’s Youth Guarantee scheme will help generation ‘scarred by unemployment’, House of Lord says
The government needs to rethink the way it uses its European funding to tackle the “generation scarred” by youth unemployment, a report from the House of Lords has stated. Money from the EU should be used to support the introduction of a Youth Guarantee, rather than putting the funds towards existing domestic measures such as […]
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