Employers are concerned with the basic numeracy and English of school and college leavers, according to the CBI/EDI annual Education & Skills survey 2011.
The survey shows 42% are not satisfied with the basic use of English and 35% with numeracy skills of school and college leavers.
Revisions to AWR guidance, announced today, underlines that the Swedish Derogation is not a “miracle solution”, according to Lewina Farrell, head of professional services at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
Charity Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) has launched a recruitment portal powered by MyPeopleBiz to manage its entire recruitment process.
The solution manages the charity’s recruitment from one location, aiming to greatly reducing the time spent on administration and improving the efficiency of the hiring process.
Telecoms recruiters that operate internationally are increasingly having to keep a tight reign on costs due to international payment terms, according to Scott Simons, director of global recruitment services Networkers International.
Recruitment businesses which use ‘EBTs’ (Employee Benefit Trusts) or ‘EFURBS” (Employer Funded Retirement Benefit Schemes) as ‘solutions’ to help their highly paid staff avoid income tax, or which engage contractors employing such schemes, may now find themselves in a very expensive hornets’ nest.
Recruitment giant Randstad has appointed Fred van Der Tang as CEO for Australia and New Zealand.
Meanwhile, former CEO Deb Loveridge has been appointed managing director Asia Pacific in a newly created role.
Van der Tang was previously managing director international accounts and is also a former managing director of Randstad UK.
The Clear Company, which helps companies recruit and retain disabled talent, has appointed Angela Ralph as development and special projects consultant.
Ralph will help organisations with the Clear Assured assessment process, a programme designed by employers to help all organisations remove barriers facing disabled candidates in recruitment processes.
Provider of interim management solutions Interim Partners has appointed Chris Jenkins as head of technology, media and telecommunications.
Bumper banking bonuses may be not be enough to prevent a technology talent drain in the financial services sector, according to Oliver Gibbons, director of Twenty Technology, a division of multi-sector recruiter Twenty Recruitment Group.
