Multi-sector recruiters Pertemps and Acorn have launched apprenticeships schemes.
Pertemps is working alongside property and facilities provider Mitie and training provider Pertemps People Development Group. Its apprentices spend one day a week training and four days in the office.
Participants in employment and training programmes for retail work are benefiting by also taking part in ’brand fit’ sessions to help them understand where they might be happiest in work.
Yesterday’s unemployment figures have focused public attention further on the growing problem of youth unemployment, but a number of parties suggest that young people with the right attitude can make that breakthrough.
Construction project starts increased 6% year-on-year for the three months to October, according to the latest index from construction industry supplier Glenigan.
This growth is driven by infrastructure, although non-residential construction project starts also increased 2% year-on-year, despite minimal growth in education and a 10% drop in residential project starts.
London’s marketing managers are least well paid in the country, earning salaries 13.5% lower than the national average for their positions, according to marketing recruiter EMR.
The highest marketing salaries in the country are to be found in the South-East, at an average of £45,400, with East Anglia and Scotland also among the top earners.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has today appointed Sue Upton as interim managing director.
Upton takes on the role alongside her current position of CIPD membership and marketing director during the long-term absence of Jackie Orme, the CIPD’s chief executive, who is undergoing treatment for cancer.
Val Adamkiewicz has joined Letterbox Recruiting’s office team.
She will focus on clients and candidates in Gwynedd and Anglesey, and is based in the Beaumaris office.
A £1bn government subsidised work scheme due to begin in April aimed at tackling rising youth unemployment of more than 1m has been broadly welcomed by recruiters.
Vienna has the best standard of living in the world, according to business services firm Mercer’s 2011 Quality of Living Survey.
European cities represent over half the cities in the top 25 in the ranking, but Britain is not among these. London has the highest rank of any UK city, at 38, closely followed by Birmingham (52), Aberdeen (54) and Glasgow (56).
Healthcare agency Healthcare Locums (HCL) has announced that the Accounting and Actuarial Disciplinary Board (AADB) has started an investigation into the conduct of auditors between early 2008 and the end of June 2010.
HCL notes that no current board members are implicated into the investigation, which a statement from the company says will look into: