The UK is creating a permanent underclass excluded from any prospect of employment, warns Adecco Group in research released today.
The research reveals 73% of UK employers and 84% of employees believe a ‘permanent underclass’ is emerging which threatens to heighten ongoing problems of skills shortages.
Retail jobsite Retailmoves.com has launched its new iPhone app for jobseekers.
The app was developed by recruitment software company Work Digital and comes at the same time as Retailmoves.com partners with social recruitment website Twitjobsearch.com.
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has appointed Vikki Hawes to its council.
Hawes held a number of senior HR roles at Royal Mail through the period 2000-10, and is currently director of HR solutions and interim management consultancy Aldridge Consulting.
Alcumus, a compliance and certification group with a number of recent acquisition in the HR and employment sector, has appointed Philip Nicholls as business development manager - compliance.
Nicholls has over 30 years of experience in sales management.
There has been a 33% increase in procurement and supply management job vacancies advertised in Q2 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, according to figures compiled by recruiter Hays Procurement and the Chartered Institue of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS),
What’s your boss like? Do you think you’re the only one to have to endure their particular ’style’ of management? Gareth Chick, director at Spring Partnerships, seems to have encountered his fair share of ’horrible bosses’.
Pizza Hut Delivery plans to create 5,000 jobs by 2020 by more than doubling the number of its outlets.
HR recruitment consultancy Ortus has appointed Vikki Worsley, former managing consultant at Hudson, into its sales team.
Worsley will become principal consultant focusing on senior HR recruitment. Before joining Ortus, Worsley worked for Hudson, Robert Walters and TMP, developing in-depth knowledge of the HR recruitment sector.
JCW Search, a niche supplier of risk management, regulatory compliance and audit professionals to the financial services and consulting sectors, has appointed Dan King to head up business operations.
King has around five years of recruitment experience in diverse settings from high street to specialist, as well as RPO implementation with Korn/Ferry and Futurestep in Asia Pacific.
Provider of BPO and integrated professional support service solutions, The Capita Group, has bought Ventura, a customer contact specialist for £65m on a cash-free, debt-free basis.