Britain’s blue-chip companies all now have at least one woman on the board after Glencore Xstrata hired Canadian mining expert Patrice Merrin as a non-executive director.
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Drivers Direct, the providers of temporary and permanent drivers to commercial organisations, has said positive financial results means it will be reinvesting in the business, opening six new offices and creating an additional 180 jobs across the UK by the end of the year.
The pull of London for the creative industry is highlighted by big salary differences, according to a survey by Creativepool, the online networking platform.
Chancellor George Osborne will today announce the creation of 1,200 jobs at Deloitte, the business advisory group, with 500 of the positions at its new digital business.
With an increasing pool of talent to choose from, more and more recruiters are putting pressure on unsuspecting candidates by throwing ‘curveball’ questions during a job interview, research from job site Foosle.com has found.
Twenty UK cities now have more vacancies than jobseekers, according to the latest Adzuna Jobs Report.
The majority of students are still overestimating graduate job opportunities, research by the National Centre for Universities and Business has found.
More South Koreans are in work than a year ago, but the unemployment rate is still rising, according to figures from the government-funded Korea Labor Institute in Seoul.
June has been a tougher month for equity markets with investor sentiment impacted by geo-political events in Ukraine and Iraq. The FTSE100 index briefly flirted with 10-year highs but weak trading volumes seem indicative of a lack of conviction among shareholders.
The challenge of delivering BBC director-general Tony Hall’s plans for greater black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation on and off air were detailed by the corporation’s HR director Karen Moran at the CIPD talent conference earlier this week in London.