Confidence in the economy is returning, with just under half of companies in the UK planning to recruit permanent staff in the next three months, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) JobsOutlook research for October.
While 48% of companies expect their permanent staff headcount to remain the same over the next year, 42% say it will increase.
Business leaders should take personal responsibility to help those most disconnected from the labour market into work, and not rely on government programmes to do it for them, according to Emma Harrison, founder and chairman of international welfare-to-work and training company A4e.
The UK has twice as many recruitment professionals as a proportion of overall population than the US, according to Bullhorn’s TransAtlantic Recruitment 2011 report, surveying 50,000 recruiters across the two nations. UK recruiters work nearly an hour a day more than their US counterparts and gain better results.
Jobsite LondonLovesJobs.com has launched.
The site, which went live in beta last week, offers London jobs across all sectors with a minimum salary of £30,000 per year.
Eight in 10 IT professionals believe technologies such as mobile and cloud computing are creating a demand for IT security skills, according to research from specialist IT recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk.
The same number of jobseekers intend to capitalise on this by skilling-up on security capabilities to boost their existing skillset, while 19% plan to re-skill entirely.
Commercial and industrial staffing specialist Neville Gee has launched www.eastlancscnchub.com to help employers source CNC engineers.
The site aims to help employers engage better with jobseekers, recruit the right people through accurate job matching and then work towards creating a cultural fit that helps the business retain the employee for longer.
Global outsourcing services provider Aegis, part of the Essar Group, is to create 600 new jobs in Manchester.
The roles will be at a new customer service centre, expected to open later this year.
Online recruitment provider Bullhorn has launched a mobile app.
Bullhorn Mobile offers basic email and contact access to deliver client, job and candidate history, candidate search, CV viewing capability, while also keeping colleagues in sync by tracking email and calendar activity automatically.
Here’s one for all you recruitment agency owners whose staff like to burn the midnight oil and never seem to want to go home. According to the Financial Times, South Korean firms have taken to locking workaholic staff out of the computer system during their compulsory two-week holiday. And why should they be so keen to turn up for work?
Profits at Impellam Group have risen in line with expectations, according to the international recruiter’s audited interim results for H1 ended 1 July.
The group’s results reveal:
· Turnover increased 0.9% to £549.4m (June 2010: £544.4m)
· Operating profit increased 29.6% to £16.2m (June 2010: £12.5m)