The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) has launched the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) Readiness Survey, a quarterly survey to assess the industry’s readiness for changes to professional standards being brought in by the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) RDR.
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Employment in the manufacturing sector has risen for the second month in a row, according to the latest data from the Markit/CIPS index.
Finance, IT and healthcare recruiter Arrows Group is opening a new office for its IT and finance teams in the City of London.
The firm’s Richmond office will become the centre for the healthcare recruitment operation and both branches will continue to take on new consultants and apprentices.
The recession has prompted organisations to undergo significant self-examination about their internal culture, according to the head of HR consulting at Capgemini Consulting. By doing so, they are defining what makes their cultures what they are as well as what determines employee cultural fit within the organisation.
An introduction of a £2.50 an hour ‘training wage’ is being called for by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development on the day that internship schemes for recently graduated students begin across the country.
IT recruiter InterQuest Group is to recruit and train at least 50 new recruitment sales people per year in 2010 and possibly more in 2011.
International recruiter Hudson has appointed former Adecco Group and Kelly Services senior operating executive Catherine King as its new UK/Ireland/Middle East (Dubai) chief executive.
Reservists serving in Afghanistan gain up to £18,432 of relevant Civvy Street experience, according to a study for the Ministry of Defence.
The study found that an officer gained skills from military training that would cost £18,432 to buy, while corporals gained skills worth more than £8,000, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Up to 60 new jobs are to be created in Belfast by the international business directory Yell.
Retailer Poundland is to create 140 new jobs in Northern Ireland.
The jobs will be at new Poundland stores in Newry, Enniskillen, Dungannon and Bangor, and newly opened stores in Londonderry and Ballymena.