Graduate vacancies are set to increase this year. However, 2010’s graduates will face stiff competition from their 2009 counterparts, according to new research from market research firm High Fliers.
The research shows that:
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Ernst & Young has emerged as the top gay-friendly accountancy employer in the 2010 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index.
Ranked third in the national benchmark, Ernst & Young’s EYGLES network was also named the ‘Employee Network of the Year’.
International recruiter Empresaria Group has shown reduced revenues but has seen signs of improved trading conditions, according to a trading update for the year.
The update shows:
· Full year revenues of £195m (2008: £208m), down 6%
· Full year net fee income of £41m (2008: £51m), a decline of 20%
International recruiter Manpower Inc’s chairman and CEO, Jeff Joerres, has been appointed by the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago board until 2011.
Almost 2,500 vacancies in the sport and active leisure sector for young, long-term unemployed people have been created by The National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure.
Manufacturer of professional haircare products KPSS, the parent company of brands KMS California and Goldwell, has moved all its recruitment activity to multi-channel online recruitment platform mypeoplebiz.
Recruitment and training firm Omega Resource Group has been named as a key partner of the government’s Backing Young Britain campaign.
Launched in January, the national initiative aims to provide 5,000 work experience placements and 20,000 internships to unemployed 18-24 year olds across the UK who have not been to university.
High school graduates in the US are twice as likely to be underemployed, according to research from Gallup.
A partner in a law firm, who specialises in working on issues affecting the recruitment industry, is calling on the government to outlaw legal clauses that he claims will encourage ‘cowboys’ into the industry.
Firms have been advised to avoid recruiting senior executives in the way that the EU has approached the search for the new role of president by talent assessment provider SHL.
SHL recommends a much more structured and objective approach to filling top jobs, or risk hiring the wrong person and affecting the success of the organisation.