Job search engine Totaljobs.com’s ‘Off the bench’ programme has gained the support of retail and FMCG recruiter Quest Search & Selection.
Under the scheme, jointly run by the QPR trust, the charitable arm of Queens Park Rangers Football Club, participants over the age of 35 from the West London area will take part in a 13-week course in job and application skills.
Hayward: trying to shape the industry
A financial recruiter in the City of London is introducing a novel staff benefit as an incentive to retain and motivate employees.
A survey of global expatriates carried out by Berlitz Consulting has revealed that among those about to start, already working on or recently returned from time living and working abroad, understanding the culture of their destination is more highly valued than speaking the language.
Business consultancy Maxxim Consulting has announced a number of senior appointments to the team, working across all areas of the company’s operations.
Ian Hunter joins as a partner, Andy Nice as a principal consultant, Matt Keen as an engagement manager and Anna Simpson as a consultant.
All four join from recently-liquidated business strategists 7days.
Public relations recruitment consultant pr moves, part of career moves, has appointed Tara Huyskens to the role of account manager.
Huyskens arrives from her native Australia, where she has worked as a publicist in the entertainment industry.
Industry research firm IBISWorld has projected that online recruitment sites will start growing again following five years of decline.
The research projects annual growth of nearly 5% for online recruitment sites across the world for the five years to 2016, reaching a total value of $1.8bn (£1.12bn).
Risk management, compliance and audit recruitment firm JCW has taken on six new members of staff.
Kerrie McCabe and David Heath join the company’s compliance desk, Danielle Watson and Rebecca Kent enter the risk management department and Tom Harvey and Vanessa Ayoola arrive in the company’s audit division.
Only 0.12% of employment tribunals in 2010-11 involved employees alleging that their company had failed to observe flexible working regulations, according to figures obtained by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
This week’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) conference and exhibition calls for HR teams to become “more business savvy” and to have a deep understanding of their company and situation.
As reported yesterday on recruiter.co.uk, the 2011 conference kicked off with chair Gill Rider calling on HR professionals to become business leaders.
Just less than 50% of British adults responding to a YouGov poll want to work more flexibly, with only 17% specifically saying they would reject the possibility.
A third of respondents said that greater flexibility would make, or already has made, them more productive, and 43% think flexible working has made them, or could make them, less stressed.