A third of employers have taken on an ex-offender in their company, with over half rating their experiences as positive, according to a survey from the consultancy CfBT Education Trust.
However, only a third of employers agreed that prison education improved the employability of offenders.
A new raft of measures making it easier for UK companies to bring in migrant workers as long as they are willing to pay up to £20,000 a year, as reported by The Sunday Telegraph, are still some way off.
A Home Office spokesperson tells Recruiter: “No decisions on a new visa for migrant workers have been agreed.”
Over 20,000 new jobs were created in the Spanish tourism industry between June and September, according to tourism and hotel industry news service hosteltur.com.
Online recruitment demand was up a single percentage point in October, with more than half of industries and sectors reporting some growth, according to job board Monster’s Employment Index UK.
With Google+ having launched its Pages application on Monday, 7 November, which will allow business and brands more leverage on the social network, recruitment technology experts tell Recruiter that something big is on its way.
Specialist software firm IT Human Resources (ITHR) and management consultancy DataContent have formed an exclusive partnership.
This creates a dedicated recruitment service for the specialist market data sector, placing candidates into financial organisations.
IT recruiter Outsource UK has acquired Omnium IT Recruitment.
Outsource UK’s founder and managing director, Paul Jameson, said that Omnium’s clientele, which includes preferred supplier agreements at a number of companies, including two leading financial services companies, was a strong factor in the decision to acquire.
The most difficult IT positions to recruit into globally are the industry’s ‘unsung heroes’, system administrators and network managers, according to firms responding to a survey carried out by IT solutions firm Ipswitch.
India’s tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai has called upon industry to work with the government to create 25m new jobs in the sector, reports India’s SME Times.
TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement) has appointed five law firms to service its membership.
Brabners Chaffe Street continue their longstanding relationship with TEAM and have been re-appointed as TEAM principal legal advisers, plus regional advisers for the Midlands, South-West and East England.