A group of major UK employers have formed the 5% Club, committing to bridging the skills gap with a target of 5% of UK workers being on a formal training scheme.
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Technical and professional recruitment specialist the STR Group has launched a new consultancy, Excipion, as part of its stable of global, niche brands.
Spain’s tourism industry has for the first time overtaken industry in terms of the number of jobs it generates, reports Spanish business paper Cinco Días.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told the Financial Times that the labour market reforms he has planned are likely to be delayed, as they “require more careful explanation” than reforms in other areas.
Jobseeker feedback tool Mystery Applicant – one of the recruitment technology Game Changes profiled in Recruiter last year – is opening an office in San Mateo, California.
Mixed results from a trio of recruitment industry firms have been filed at Companies House, with profit dropping at temporary labour procurer de Poel and IT recruiter Templeton, while blue collar staffing firm Extrastaff continued to grow its business.
Two overseas business process outsourcing firms have pledged to create 1,000 jobs apiece in the UK through expanding their call centre operations.
Business secretary Vince Cable says he is “confident we can get over the finish line” as the latest data for female representation on the board of the UK’s top companies shows that 19% of directors are female.
US civilian workers assigned to US Air Force (USAF) bases in the UK and throughout Europe returned to work this morning (7 October) after a week-long ‘furlough’ resulting from the US government shutdown, a USAF spokeswoman has told recruiter.co.uk.
Financial services firms in the UK added around 10,000 jobs in Q3, and should add a further 2,000 by the year’s end, as optimism in the sector rose to the highest level in 17 years, according to a CBI/PwC survey.