High unemployment and fiscal uncertainty means hospitality businesses have enjoyed a wider pool of potential recruits and decreased staff turnover, according to research from Caterer.com and hospitality skills council People 1st.
However, they must begin to prepare for a shift when the economic upturn comes, the quarterly survey shows.
HM Revenue & Customs is in the planning stages of a media enforcement campaign, which will tackle potentially illegal practices where interns are not paid the minimum wage by companies.
Nearly 80% of graduates, MBA students and middle managers participating in ’The Sky Future Leaders Study’ say that the vision and values of a company is an important factor when looking at potential employers,
And 34% went on to say that creating social and environmental value through business is an important career goal.
The unemployment rate remained at 8.3%, or 2.64m people, in the quarter from August to October, as the UK economy shows signs of ’stabilising’, suggests employment minister Chris Grayling.
Your headline on Friday 11 November reads: ‘Royal Mail remains very confident in Angard’. May I suggest that this, at best, is misplaced?
I attended a recruitment event by Angard for a temporary position with Royal Mail, York leading up to Christmas. The event was not well organised and many people I spoke to went away disappointed.
Kelly Quirk, managing director of Randstad Managed Services (RMS), has been appointed as a non-executive director to the European board of global HR outsourcing industry body Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA).
Meanwhile, RMS sales director Seb O’Connell has been appointed to the association’s special interest group for recruitment process outsourcing (RPO).
The ReThink Group has acquired resourcing and outsourcing services provider Berkley Recruitment Group.
The initial consideration is €2.65m (£2.34m) with additional deferred consideration of up to €4.125m dependent on the aggregate EBITDA achieved by Berkley and its subsidiaries in the year ending 31 December 2011.
Only the knowledge economy can provide the jobs and balanced growth needed to secure the UK’s future prosperity, according to a plan for growth published today by The Work Foundation.
The report sets out a vision of what a balanced and sustainable economy could look like in 2020 and provides a detailed picture of the measures needed to secure this future.
Specialist recruiter, Project Resource, is to expand its business by opening a new Greater Manchester office.
The recruiter specialises in supplying white collar professionals to the construction, infrastructure and civil engineering sectors and has built up two offices and more than 40 staff in the UK since its 2002 launch.
