The average duration of a job interview process for successful applicants has increased by more than a quarter over the last five years, according to recruitment group Randstad.
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The absence of ‘house branches’ will be key to developing the franchise network of white-collar recruiter Select Appointments, the firm’s owner tells Recruiter.
Utilities giant British Gas, Irish retailer Centra and fast food chain Domino’s have all signalled their intent to expand their businesses through new hires.
Despite a study showing that testing as part of the hiring process is dropping as use of social media in recruitment rises, Ken Lahti, vice-president for product development & innovation at talent measurement firm SHL, tells Recruiter that assessments are here to stay.
Keeping up with the administration work for the sheer volume of transient workers who join and leave a business in a year’s time poses the greatest challenge for employers of temporary and contract labour in getting to grips with new pensions auto-enrolment legislation, predicts Derek Kelly, managing director of the Parasol umbrella company.
Byron Mears, a former HR head leader at the BBC, is claiming at an employment tribunal that he was bullied to the point of an illness that made him quit his job, after he stood up for a female member of staff who had asked to work part-time following a return to work from maternity leave.
UK recruitment and outsourcing firm Staffline delivered substantial growth in 2012, promising more to come in 2013, while global recruitment group Hudson was in the red, with its chief executive officer calling 2012 “difficult to navigate by any measure”.
Not-for-profit organisation the City Hindus Network (CHN) is looking to explore how perceptions of the glass ceiling differ among, and have an effect upon, professionals from ethnic minorities, a recruiter leading research into the matter tells Recruiter.
The mechanisms for evaluating US labour market needs and admitting workers are “broken or non-existent”, and there is the need for significant overhaul of the way lesser-skilled visa are issued, according to a joint statement from the US Chamber of Commerce and federation of trade unions – the AFL-CIO.
The introduction of auto-enrolment of pensions in the UK will make it more expensive to hire staff, according to top 20 accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.