Specialist recruiting group Hays is today unveiling a nine-point Manifesto for Employment in which it details what it sees as serious shortcomings it sees in Britain’s job market.
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The UK government needs to do more to market the UK hospitality sector as a career choice for candidates, according to Beverley Stewart, HR director at hotelier Radisson Edwards.
Earlier this week, the CIPS-Markit index for the services sector recorded a 17th consecutive month of job shedding adding to an ever growing talent pool.
Construction material producer Saint-Gobain PAM UK has appointed Sue Wallbanks as its new HR director.
Wallbanks has previously held senior HR roles at British Gypsum and Belle Group.
The Guardian has admitted that up to half a million users may have been compromised by a “sophisticated and deliberate hack” of its jobs website.
Hospitality recruiter Berkeley Scott has announced that Simon Tucker-Brown is to join its executive and board-level search practice isis to head up the re-established brand.
Assessment provider FindingPotential is launching a free personality questionnaire along with a series of online assessments to help firms enhance their recruitment and people development activities.
Contracts worth over a billion pounds are still up for grabs, delegates attending the London 2012 Business Summit at ExCeL were told yesterday.
The London Organising Committee (LOCOG) and Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) have yet to award roughly £1.7bn worth of contracts.
Around 300 unemployed jobseekers attended a Birmingham jobs fair staged by Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) in Birmingham.
Multi-sector recruiter Acorn has appointed two new members of staff to its Preston branch.
Samantha Nieuwenhuizen has been recruited as a recruitment consultant, while Maciej Gorczyca takes the role of account co-ordinator. Both Nieuwenhuizen and Gorczyca will specialise in the industrial sector.
Access to funding remains a significant problem for UK firms, according to the British Chambers of Commerce. (BCC)
The latest BCC survey shows that 33% of companies reported that accessing finance had been more difficult over the last quarter, compared with 20% in June who believed access to finance had worsened.