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Julia Onslow-Cole, partner and global head of immigration, PwC
David Cameron announced this week that the jobless must gain useful skills to continue receiving welfare payments. Given the current economic environment, I agree it is crucial to encourage people to sign-up for learning.
Public sector recruiter the Capita Group has acquired Cedar HR Software for £15m on a debt free, cash free basis.
Cedar, which provides HR management software to UK policing, will become part of Capita’s secure information services business.
Cedar made a pro forma operating profit for its financial year to 28 February 2011 of £2m on turnover of £6.2m.
Disneyland Paris is seeking 4,000 new recruits as part of a Europe-wide recruitment and sourcing campaign, which will run until 30 March next year.
Most employers in the East of England see a lack of talent and skills as the biggest of inhibitors to business growth, according multi-sector recruiter Cooper Lomaz’s Business Barometer.
The survey shows 42% of employers see the main problem to be the lack of talent and skills, followed by poor transport links (29%) and lack of investment (21.7%) as hindering growth.
Secondment of John Lewis employees at The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games(LOCOG) is already underway, according to the retailer.
Financial sector firms have put the brakes on hiring and are looking to cut headcount, according to the latest CBI/PwC ‘Financial Services Survey’.
The survey reveals the pace of growth in the UK financial services sector continued to slow in the three months to September.