The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has launched Discover Risk, an interactive board game aimed at encouraging more young people to choose a career in insurance.
The game is aimed at 16-18-year-olds, and the CII team plans to visit schools around the county and run workshops to engage young people with practical examples of risk and danger.
Employer branding and employee engagement specialist Evviva Brands has appointed Stephen Stewart as partner and executive strategy director to lead Evviva’s US creative team.
Stewart joins Evviva from global advertising agency TMP Worldwide where he was national creative director.
The Netherlands is the number one location in the world in terms of penetration for social networking sites LinkedIn.com and Twitter.com, according to the comScore Media Metrix service.
The top 10 countries are:
Two Indian companies are on the verge of entering the UK staffing market, according to a director of Baird Capital Partners Europe.
Executive search firm Odgers Berndtson has been chosen to begin the search for the chief executive of the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
The 2015 Canada Winter Games will be held in the city of Prince George, located in the British Columbia central interior region of Canada.
In response to your article ’Cut spend on teaching assistants, says Randstad Education’ (recruiter.co.uk, 27 April), I’m not surprised Randstad are saying this, as they are losing money by placing fewer supply teachers.
However as an ex-teacher who has worked in the supply world, I have to disagree to the cost effective/efficient argument.
The guidance on AWR regulations has created uncertainty on whether employees hired using in-house staffing banks come under the scope of the regulations.
Interim management and executive resourcer Archer Mathieson has appointed Gordon Whyte as head of HR interim.
Whyte joins from Digby Morgan’s HR interim team along with Kerryn Hooper.
UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March to 2.46m, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The rate of unemployment in the UK now stands at 7.7%. However, unemployment among 16-24-year-olds is 935,000, with one in five (20%) young people now out of work.
Almost half of respondents in a Wales-based business survey were prompted to leave their jobs due to the ‘aggressive’ leadership style of their employers.