A-level students have been urged to pay more consideration to a future career path, according to Carol Frost, HR director at Centrica.
On the day A-level students receive their grades up and down the country, Frost says: “Today marks an important milestone for students across the UK as they decide whether to go onto further education or enter the jobs market.
Education recruiter NP Education has appointed Daniel Boucher as managing director.
Boucher previously held senior management positions at Reed Education and Celsian Education.
The construction of a new business park near Aberdeen Airport could create up to 2,000 new jobs.
The BBC reports that the £100m 54-acre construction at Dyce by developer Ribnort, aimed at businesses connected with the oil industry, will be ready for occupation from next summer.
A Ribnort spokesperson told Recruiter: “They would be 2,000 permanent jobs.
Senior: organisations must address pay inequality
Irish recruitment firm Sigmar plans to employ 50 new staff over the next 12 months with immediate plans to hire 16 recruitment consultants in the coming weeks.
Data from People 1st, the sector skills council for hospitality and tourism, reveals there are “significant” opportunities ahead for highly skilled workers in the sector.
The data from People 1st’s State of the Nation 2011 reveals the need for 638,000 additional jobs by 2017 of which 69,000 are managerial posts.
Half of all women have found the transition from permanent to interim work difficult, according to research from Interim Women, the business network for women working as Interim Managers.
Research found that it took several months or more to find work, with some new interims taking up to a year.
With just over a week to go, many recruiters still haven’t set up a technological infrastructure to handle the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR).
Denise Matthews
Independent recruiters are choosing to use virtual offices as a London base for their businesses rather than have the expense of taking on the lease of an office space.
A mobility consultant within Coca-Cola has attacked the performance of recruitment consultants and compared them unfavourably with in-house recruiters.