Social landlord Contour Housing Group has made Hays Social Housing its official recruitment partner.
Hays will recruit for all temporary and permanent staff over the next two years, focusing on housing management roles as well as areas including anything from asset management and maintenance professionals, trades and labour staff, corporate services staff, and IT and HR professionals.
Most HR recruitment workers (95%) are prepared to be flexible in their working conditions to safeguard their colleagues’ jobs, according to a survey by the the independent campaign Keep Britain Working.
The survey also shows that 30% would accept a pay cut, while 53% would accept a reduction in hours.
A former recruiter on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) told a court of his million-pound home, collection of fast cars and a visit to a Swiss bank that reminded him of James Bond films.
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The recession is continuing to hit the high street, according to retail recruiters.
According to figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers, seven retail businesses are collapsing every working day.
Businesses have learned the lessons of past recessions, with the need to shed staff balanced by an increasing focus on talent management, according to recruitment and talent management consultancy Hudson.
This was the key conclusion of a survey of more than 500 HR and business leaders in more than 30 countires conducted by Hudson in March.
Recruiters have been urged to get to back to basics by Voyager Software’s sales director.
Paul Thompson says that recruiters are currently forgetting the basics – recruitment is a ‘sales and service’ business.
Recruiters in the renewables sector are worried more jobs will go after a major manufacturer announced plans to withdraw from the UK.
As commercial opportunities in the banking sector have fallen away, Luc Fountain, managing director of Liberty Resourcing, has successfully switched the focus of his firm to the buoyant online gaming market.
Companies should proceed “with extreme caution” when making workers on long-term sick leave redundant, according to employment law specialist RedundancyManager.co.uk, provided by Tollers Solicitors.
Solicitor Gary Tait says:“It’s a myth surrounding redundancy that you have to treat those on long-term sick differently to other employees.