Employers have been warned to expect an increase in the number candidates coming to interview with fake degrees on their CVs if students are saddled with rising tuition fees.
The warning from Eyal Ben Cohen, managing director of CV verification and background screening expert Verifile, comes ahead of today’s House of Commons vote on tuition fees.
CV parsing and intelligent searching and matching solutions provider Daxtra has completed a ’six-figure’ investment in multi-posting and candidate management software developer idibu.
Scottish jobs website STV has launched a new STV Jobs iPhone app, providing jobseekers with instant access to vacancies across Scotland.
The free STV Jobs app, produced in partnership with job board software provider Madgex, offers real-time job alerts and enables online applications, as well as browsing of all the top jobs from across Scotland.
International recruiter Hays has launched careers training portal Career Skills.
The number of confirmed City job offers fell 21% in December, compared to the previous month, according to a study from pre-employment screening firm Powerchex.
The research reveals investment banks saw opportunities drop by 65%, while vacancies in insurance firms were down 17%.
Eight in 10 female workers feel they are being underpaid, according to research from salary comparison site MySalaryChecker.com.
The research also shows a third (38.2%) of women thought they were underpaid by as much as 25%. Almost a third (32.9%) of female workers expect a pay rise of between 2% and 4% in 2011, compared with the expectations of male colleagues (28%).
Recruitment has always involved the art of matchmaking, as demonstrated by Ruth Moran (managing director of Ruth Moran Consulting Rec2Rec) who married Neil Prestwich (formerly of Hays). The pair married on the island of Barbados last month. The couple have also joined forces at work, with Prestwich joining his wife’s business as a co-director in the firm’s Leeds office.
Michael Page International has launched a new iPhone app.
Michael Page Jobs app features a version of the job search function and enables users to apply for jobs wherever they are straight from their iPhone.
The app also includes ‘Face the Panel’ feature that allows candidates to practise interview technique with a panel of experts.
More than a third of graduates (38%) have been on Jobseeker’s Allowance since leaving university and of this group, 37% have done so for more than six months, according to new research from Totaljobs.com.
One in five employees are worried about losing their job, according to the latest Employee Outlook Survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).