Firms in Yorkshire and Humberside have been urged to do more to support older workers by Chris Ball, chief executive of TAEN – The Age and Employment Network.
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Almost a third (30%) of employers send confidential information via standard email attachment or unsecured in the body of an email, according to a survey by recruitment software firm InvisiViewmedia.com.
Interim management and executive search firm Hexagon Human Capitalhas requested the suspension of trading of its shares on Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
Creative sector employers are favouring the temp to perm model as a means of recruitment, according to marketing and creative sector recruiter Major Players.
Back to work tsar and chairman of A4E, which rehabilitates the long-term unemployed, Emma Harrison is to appear in a new BBC TV series, Famous, Rich and Jobless where ‘unemployed’ celebrities will experience joblessness.
Provider of on-demand talent management solutions Taleo has appointed Adam Brenner as group vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Brenner will be responsible for sales and operations in the region, leveraging Taleo’s investment in the latest version of its talent management system Taleo 10.
IT recruiter InterQuest Group has seen its revenues fall but recorded stronger trading in the final quarter of the year, according to its audited preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009.
The results reveal:
· Revenue £97.4m (2008: £105.5m) a decrease of 8%
· Gross profit £12.4m (2008: £15.3m) a fall of 19%
Almost half (47%) of respondents to a Monster survey say the glass ceiling still exists for women in the workplace with men favoured for promotions.
The poll shows that:
While most employers are happy with the quality of their staff, the hospitality sector has some way to go to win its war for talent, according to Martin-Christian Kent, director of policy and research at hospitality sector skills council People 1st.