The government has chosen welfare-to-work provider Reed in Partnership to run a core component of its Backing Young Britain programme, aimed at helping unemployed 18-24 year olds into non-graduate internships and work experience placements.
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The legal sector has become more competitive, as M&A activity has fallen, so candidate numbers in this area have risen
A weak pound and relatively cheap rents lured international firms over to the UK to benefit from shopping tourists. But will this continue?
Branding sophisticates can stop reading this piece right here - or read on, if you want a moment in which you can groan, tear at your hair, say a few choice words and know that you enjoy our full empathy.
Not only must the sector deal with the fallout from the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but it has to come to terms with an ageing workforce
“With the major parties issuing their election manifestos, what are you hoping the next government will offer to help the recruitment/resourcing industry?”
Call-centre operatives are in high demand as the sector starts to recover from the recession, but finding and retaining staff is no easy task
Faced with the recruitment of thousands of new hires over a period of years, HR consulting and outsourcing solutions firm Hewitt Associates has started to build a global sourcing operation.
In Recruiter 3 March, the HR director of The British Library Mary Canavan said references were dead. How useful do you find them? And if you don’t use them, what do you use to assess candidates?
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In response to ’Don’t believe the social media hype’ (Recruiter, 31 March)
In the same way that the internet changed how we booked travel and has drastically impacted travel agencies, social media will eliminate the middleman for jobseekers and job providers. Social media isn’t working for recruiters but it’s working for everyone else.