The Co-operative Group has gone public with plans to increase female representation on boards.
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Two more large UK employers, professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and banking group Barclays, say they will increase their apprenticeship recruitment this year, in announcements made as we reach the midway point in National Apprenticeship Week.
The government’s Work Programme and Jobcentre Plus are failing in their efforts to get single parents into work, according to single parent charity Gingerbread.
Multinational brewer Heineken tells Recruiter that gaining access to “interesting and smart people” has been a “welcome offshoot” of IdeasBrewery, a website that invites users to submit observations and insights relevant to its business.
How do you keep a project workforce motivated when they know from day one on the job that their jobs will cease to exist the moment the project is finished? This was just the issue faced by Paul Modley, the man who led the recruitment effort at London 2012.
Managers of Starbucks coffee shops have a key role in the success of the company’s apprenticeship scheme, according to the company’s UK head of talent.
UK industrial crane and hoist manufacturer Street Crane Company tells Recruiter it has revamped its recruitment strategy to compete more effectively with larger and better-known graduate employers by moving to “a more proactive” approach.
Scottish recruitment business Eden Scott is to lead a developer hiring drive at Edinburgh-headquartered travel comparison website Skyscanner.
Adecco’s UK and Ireland business bucked the trend across most of Europe as the international staffing giant announced its full-year results for 2012.
Car maker Volkswagen is Germany’s most attractive employer, according to a survey of 13,000 German workers undertaken by the nation’s Focus news magazine and professional social network Xing.