Removing the default retirement age (DRA) for women represents a good opportunity for the social care sector to retain the talent and expertise needed to meet the demands of Britain’s rapidly ageing population, according to medical, health and social care job board BritishMedicalJobs.com.
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Business-to-business multi-platform media group Emap has launched six new career websites focused on the built environment and architecture sectors.
The job boards cover all key areas of built environment recruitment, including the relaunch of Careersinconstruction.com as a leading careers destination for jobs across all sectors of the industry.
The new websites are:
Multi-sector recruiter Eximius Group has strengthened its team with a number of new appointments.
Rebecca Lancelles joins Eximius Operations to head up the new secretarial and support team in the division, along with Richard Humphreys who joins the contracts team.
Siemens has denied claims from Unite union that they have made attempts to hire Bombardier staff.
Technology staffing specialist The ReThink Group expects revenues to be 27% up on the same period last year, according to a trading update on the six months ended 30 June 2011.
More than seven in 10 expat professionals would return home if a good opportunity came up, according to a poll from news website Emirates 24|7.
Meanwhile, the report shows 16% of the respondents would not consider returning home should a good opportunity arise.
Just 6% were unsure if a higher salary would lure them back to their home countries.
More than half of firms are finding it difficult to recruit, according to international recruiter Kelly Services’ latest ‘Global RPO Report’.
Recruiters reported increased numbers of permanent and temporary placements in July, according to the latest Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG ‘Report on Jobs’.
Insolvency practitioner SFP has overseen the sale of Key Personnel Group Ltd after the office, finance and marketing recruiter ran into financial difficulties securing 18 jobs in the process.
SFP’s Simon and Daniel Plant were appointed joint administrators on 29 July 2011 after the company ran up debts of more than £400,000. Key Personnel was sold to a third party on 2 August 2011.
Numbers of new professional jobs fell slightly in July within the Republic of Ireland, according to the latest Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor.
The Monitor recorded a 4% month-on-month decrease in the number of new professional jobs in the Irish market in July 2011 with jobs registered falling from 8.250 in June to 7,900 in July. Job numbers were however 50% up on July 2010.