Over half (52%) of UK businesses are struggling to find the right talent, resulting in half of hires over the last two years not fully meeting their original job specification, according to a recent report from Talent Party, a recruitment marketplace for talent.
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Two thirds of UK businesses fear that their hiring plans could be derailed because they won’t be able to find the people with the skills they need, according to a survey by international professional services firm PwC.
Gerri Spiers, a personal assistant (PA) from London, has been described as Britain’s most dedicated job-hunter by London’s Evening Standard daily newspaper after taking to the streets of London wearing a sandwich board to look for work.
Oxford International, the IT and engineering recruiter, is to receive a €16m (£13m) investment into its Cork-based European headquarters, which will create more than 50 new jobs over the next 18 months.
The US Department of Labor has made available a $5.6m (£3.3m) National Emergency Grant to assist with the clean-up and recovery efforts from severe storms, tornadoes and flooding in Mississippi at the end of April.
MBN Recruitment, the insight & analytics, IT and digital & marketing recruiter, has changed its name to MBN Solutions and launched a new website.
Edinburgh-based Xpress Recruitment, the hospitality, retail and sales recruiter, has launched a new Middle East and Asia executive search and selection division.
Telecoms firm BT is launching a major recruitment drive across the UK, with 1,600 new engineering jobs being created at Openreach, BT’s local access network business.
Fears have been raised that Labour’s proposal to increase the National Minimum Wage (NMW) by linking it to average earnings would increase the use of ‘shady’ non-self employment models.
Ciett, the international confederation of private employment services (PrES), has elected a new board at its annual conference in Brussels, to oversee the organisation until 2017.