Men are more ill at ease with ‘digital body language’, according to research carried from Flagship Consulting.
The research reveals 60% of women saying they use xx’s to convey affection compared with 40% of men.
Women are also more likely to use smiley/sad faces and acronyms such as LOL while men prefer to use slang to convey friendliness.
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Multi-sector recruiter Synergy People Solutions has appointed Stuart Wilkinson and Gemma Joyce as divisional managers to head up its logistics & transport and construction divisions respectively.
Wilkinson was previously operations director for Driver Hire, while Joyce was branch manager at Kalcrest Group.
Insurance staffing specialist AMC Insurance Appointments has signed up as a supporter of the Aldermanbury Declaration.
The Declaration, launched by the Chartered Insurance Institute last year, is formed on eight key principles and aims to raise standards in the general insurance sector through a commitment to a common industry framework, which promotes professionalism.
Professional services firm PwC and Henley Business School are launching a degree programme which offer students, who successfully pass their exams and perform well at work placements, a guaranteed job after graduation.
Buoyed by South-East Asian markets, international recruiter Empresaria has seen revenues and profits rise for the year ended 31 December 2010.
The group’s results reveal:
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has urged UCATT to do more to promote the role that good agencies can play in the construction sector.
John Crabtree has been appointed to the role of non-executive chairman of industrial recruiter Staffline.
According to a trading statement released this morning, his appointment is part of a move to split the roles of chairman and chief executive “in line with the next phase of its growth strategy and to maintain the highest standards of corporate governance”.
Two-fifths (41%) of public sector workers think they would need to upskill to find work in the private sector, according to research of over 1,000 public sector workers by recruitment consultant Badenoch & Clark.
More than eight in 10 (84%) IT professionals believe that apprenticeships are a valuable alternative to further education, according to research from IT recruitment website CWJobs.co.uk
The financial and work/life balance cost of commuting has hit the employment options for low skilled workers as well as others workplace experts say.
Office for National Statistics figures show that commuters working in London tend to take longer to travel to work - only 44% enduring a journey of 30 minutes or less, with 16% taking more than
an hour.