Recruitment website Jobsite, the title sponsor of Portsmouth Football Club, is working with the club to offer CV-optimising and career advice services for 18-22-year-olds.
The community initiative, culminating in a chance to do voluntary work on a trip to Africa, is called ‘Beyond Blue’ and aims to improve young people’s employment skills and opportunities.
The role of parents and teachers will be ‘crucial’ to help unemployed young people find work, according to Denise Keating, chief executive of the Employment Forum on Age and Belief (EFA/EFB).
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC) new qualifications launched earlier this week are “all about making things more accessible for recruiters”, according to Judith Armatage, the REC’s director of professional development.
The new qualifications are the Certificate in Recruitment Practice and the Diploma in Recruitment Practice.
Multi-sector recruiter Wells Tobias Recruitment has appointed Charlotte Bullen as consultant in its office support team in London.
The firm also has offices in London, Reading and Swindon.
A 21-year-old man spent seven days and six nights trekking 360km from Chengdu to Chongqing in China on the hunt for a job, Chinese news site Xinhuanet.com reported this week.
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) will look to its members for constant feedback on ‘practical tools’ once AWR is implemented this autumn.
The REC launched its ‘Your AWR Advisor’ toolkit on Tuesday (26 July) in London.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young has appointed Liz Bingham as managing partner for people.
Bingham, who has been with the firm for more than 25 years and previously led its restructuring practice, will now drive and implement its people strategy as well as its commitment to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent across the UK & Ireland.
Energize Recruitment has appointed three new trainee consultants.
Ryan Delargy, Frank Grippman and Jerri McCallion are all graduates of the firm’s training academy.
The company has launched a second academy for 2011 following the success of its previous effort.
Multi-sector recruiter Nurture People Group has merged with Meriden-based Pertemps Recruitment Partnership.
Nurture People operates from five locations and has more than 100 staff focusing on the IT, education, healthcare and energy markets.
Online retailing remains a bright spot as new figures reveal that more than one in 10 shops are vacant, according to a retail recruiter.
However, switching from traditional brick and mortar retailers to the online sector can be difficult for candidates.