Salary is the most important factor in graduates’ career choices, a survey by Hay Group has revealed.
Ninety-three per cent of this year’s graduates listed base pay as an important or very important factor in their career choice.
The top three criteria which follow base pay are benefits (cited by 51% of graduates), future earnings outlook (45%) and bonus potential (37%).
International job board JobServe has launched an affiliate programme.
The programme, which is free to use, enables website owners and bloggers to create links and earn referral fees from their visitors that go on and use products from JobServe.
A complaint against business networking firm The Ecademy has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
The firm’s website had contained details of a workshop in February this year, entitled: ’How to Master Social Media workshop with Thomas Power… Build your personal brand online’.
Scottish Power is keen to recruit graduates and apprentices to fill 1,500 new roles in a bid to help lower the age profile of the industry, according to a spokesperson for the energy giant.
News website Sky.com reports the energy firm has unveiled plans to create 1,500 jobs over the next decade.
The UK economy grew by just 0.7% in the past year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
This makes the UK the worst performing economy in the group of seven developed nations (G7) apart from Japan.
The best performing G7 economies were Germany, with growth of 2.7%, followed by France and the US, both 1.6%.
Experian’s latest Insolvency Index has revealed that the largest companies in the country — those employing 501 or more employees — experienced a year-on-year drop in insolvencies in July 2011.
Figures from the global information services company reveal 13% fewer large firms failed during July 2011 compared to July 2010.
Recruitment-to-recruitment firm Qui Recruitment has launched an internal/RPO division headed up by newly appointed director, Justine Bentley.
Bentley previously worked at Dune Recruitment in Manchester and joins Qui Recruitment after maternity leave.
Empresaria chief executive Miles Hunt is stepping down at the end of the year from the post he has held for 15 years.
Essie Russell, former talent acquisition director at drinks business Diageo, has moved to take up the role of senior talent acquisition director at EMC.
Russell has worked at Diageo for the past three years.
Surveying and built environment staffing specialist Build Recruitment has opened a new office at London Bridge.
Meanwhile,Build Recruitment has added appointed two new directors to its board. Chris Ewart is appointed non-executive director and Coleen Cloherty is a director.