Training and mentoring schemes have received major boosts after funding announcements made by Prime Minister David Cameron and business minister Mark Prisk.
Under the scheme announced by Cameron, £250m funding will give businesses the ability to design, develop and purchase the vocational training programme.
Businesses will be able to bid for shares of the fund in the New Year.
WorkDigital, the search technology company operating social network analyser TheSocialCV.com has announced the launch of data system FreshUp.
FreshUp uses data from 50 social media sites to identify and build profiles of potential candidates, which can be matched with CV records.
The company estimates that over 85% of CVs stored by companies are likely to be out of date.
IT services provider FDM Group has launched a new veterans programme, providing post-service training and employment for the men and women who have served in the US Armed Forces.
Recruitment marketing platform Jobs2web has been acquired by cloud-based human capital management solutions firm SuccessFactors.
Hays Japan has appointed Jonathan Sampson as regional director for its Akasaka and Shinjuku offices.
Sampson will particularly focus on IT, accountancy and finance, HR, office and legal roles.
Sampson has over a decade of recruitment experience in Australia, the UK and Japan.
International skills within UK companies such as linguistic abilities, overseas experience and cultural awareness are crucial to driving “the blueprint for sustainable economic growth”, business innovation & skills minister Vince Cable said on Thursday.
Four times as many employers plan to increase the number of MBA (Masters in Business Administration) graduates they hire in 2012 compared to 2011, with 32% of firms expecting to increase salaries for such hires, according to the Graduate Management Admissions Council.
Social networking consultancy SITEFORUM, law firm Osborne Clarke and the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) have joined forces to present a whitepaper to the government.
The whitepaper will recommend that businesses’ social media policies protect not just the business itself, but employees, clients and suppliers.
The UK jobs market is flatlining, with only one in five employers planning on increase staff headcount in the next quarter, while a West-East divide has emerged, show the results of Manpower’s UK Employment Outlook.
