Public projects including the Olympic Games, Crossrail, defence infrastructure and ID cards could be hindered by a skills shortage, the National Audit Office has warned.
The Financial Timesreports that said the biggest skills gaps are in contract management, commissioning and managing advisers, risk identification and management and business acumen.
Multi-sector recruiter Blusource Professional Services has appointed Bjorn Jones to manage the growth of division - Blusource Professional.
UK job prospects will deteriorate less slowly in the final quarter of 2009 than at any time since the start of the recession but the stricken labour market is displaying no signs of returning to proper health, according to the latest (autumn 2009) quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook (LMO)survey.
Outsourced recruitment provider Sherwood Recruitment Group has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) as corporate adviser.
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Recruitment software provider Bullhorn has launched a BlackBerry synchronisation tool.
The integration allows clients to access emails, calendars and client and candidate data as well as generating, sourcing and filling job orders, or making placements at any time and from any place.
Employers need help in providing quality jobs, a report published by The Work Foundation shows.
The report shows that nearly half of surveyed firms (41%) saw a role for recruiters to help with the ‘good jobs’ agenda and nearly all respondents considered job quality vital to maintaining customer satisfaction.
Norway’s Posten (Post Office) has chosen business talent management solutions provider StepStone e-recruitment to underpin, manage and enable its professional recruitment process.
Posten, which employs around 25,000 people, will implement StepStone’s solution to attract and filter qualified candidates to reduce its HR department’s administrative workload.
Interim managers working in banks have seen their day rates rise by half since the start of the credit crunch, according to interim management solutions provider Interim Partners.
Financial services companies are engaged in a ‘war for talent’ which has driven pay for interim managers who specialise in risk and compliance work 50% higher over the last two years.
Not-for-profit recruiter Prospectus has signed up to Changing Faces’ Face Equality at Work membership scheme, which aims to raise awareness, challenge perceptions and target discrimination against people with facial disfigurements in the workplace.