The number of long-term unemployed people has doubled in the last two years to 797,000, according to data from the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr).
The data reveals a ‘jobs deficit’ of 330,000 threatening the ability of the government’s flagship employment scheme to get people back into work.
Some sourcing experts contend that the telephone, and not the internet, is actually the fastest route to generate candidate names. “You can’t find everyone on the internet,” Maureen Sharib, co-founder of Ohio-based names sourcing and training firm TechTrak told the SourceCon audience.
Umbrella firm Parasol has chosen eGain’s multi-channel customer service suite to introduce a flexible support model to its contractor client base.
With Britain’s military forces shedding 17,000 servicemen and women, supermarket Tesco is running a scheme to take skills and qualities of armed forces personnel and redeploy them in a new career in retail.
Despite the announcement of an 8% fall in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) budget, recruiters struck an optimistic note at a job fair for security-cleared candidates held in London last week.
More than 30 recruiters attended Security Cleared Expo 2010 held in Victoria, London with 2,500 candidates registering their interest.
Sharples: it’s just fear of legislation
Turnover in the UK’s recruitment industry dropped by more than 12% to just under £20bn in the year to March 2010, according to the annual industry report launched today (Thursday 28 October) by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) in association with Barclays Corporate.
Executive search firm Burns Carlton Executive Search and Selection has launched an ‘Adopt a Grad’ initiative.
Each month, the firm selects one graduate from the many applications they receive and assist in that individual’s search for employment.
Multi-sector recruiter The MRJ Group has launched new division, MRJ Property.
Led by Jonathan Lewis, the division recruits qualified surveyors across the UK.
More than nine in 10 hospitality workers are against the proposed rise in National Insurance contributions, according to a poll from hospitality recruiter Berkeley Scott.
The firm found that 92% of employers and people, earning less than £35,000 working in the leisure industry, opposed the rise.