Public sector pay is likely to be frozen due to the state of public finances, according to recruiters.
October’s Office for National Statistics provisional estimates of the public finance figures reveal a current budget deficit of £7.7bn, net borrowing of £11.4bn, while at the end of October 2009 net debt was £829.7bn - 59.2% of gross domestic product.
The UK needs to raise its game if it isn’t to lose out to other countries in attracting skilled nurses and midwives.
The construction sector continued to contract in November, according to the latest CIPS/Markit PMI index.
International talent acquisition solutions company MrTed has been chosen by Shanghai Foreign Services Co (SFSC), one of the largest HR service and RPO providers in China, to support SFSC’s RPO services.
Mobile communications firm Vodafone UK is offering 50 graduates the chance to join its 2010 graduate programme.
Graduates, who will earn a £25,000 annual salary, can apply for places beginning September 2010 by visiting vodafone.co.uk/discoveruk.
International recruiter Hydrogen has opened a new office in Singapore.
The office began trading on Monday from the Prudential Tower.
Hydrogen had been operating in the Singapore region for the past year before the opening of the office.
IT recruiter Jenrick CPI (Computer Personnel International) has announced that it has re-branded as Jenrick IT.
The firm says that one of the main reasons for the name change was to align the division more closely with the other divisions of the Jenrick Recruitment Group.
Peter Searle
Internships are a win-win situation and help young people find full-time employment, claims a director of Inspiring Interns, responding to the labour market figures released yesterday by the Office of National Statistics.
From today, any young person that has been unemployed for six months will be guaranteed a job offer, training or work experience, supported by up to 470,000 vacancies over the next 15 months through the government’s Young Person’s Guarantee.
Up to 100,000 unemployed young people will be eligible to benefit from such opportunities, according to latest figures.