Ahead of the May election, the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) today (20 April) has highlighted the need to incentivise jobseekers in order to reduce long-term unemployment.
The IES whitepaper identifies a number of other key priorities:
· cutting youth unemployment with effective vocational training and personal support
Green executive search firm Climate Human Capital has appointed Matthew Pitt as head of research & execution.
International recruiter Hydrogen says it expects operating profit for the coming year ending 31 December 2010 to be ahead of market expectations in a trading update.
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International recruiter Harvey Nash has seen revenue fall but says it has delivered ‘resilient’ results for the year ended 31 January 2010.
The group’s results reveal:
Criminals are now targeting recruitment websites to help with scams, according to Tony Osborn, technology manager at Symantec.
Multi-sector recruiter Eximius Group has strengthened its team with a number of hires.
Less than four in 10 firms say they are ‘very confident’ of their ability to redeploy talent within the business, according to talent management solutions provider Taleo.
The study also shows that 48% say that the one thing that would help them effect change within the company is ‘better visibility of employee skills’.
Hospitality and leisure recruiter Berkeley Scott has appointed Nik Wall to manage its Birmingham office.
Wall has been with Berkeley Scott for two years as key account consultant.
US retained executive search firm Trilogy Search Non+Profit has recruited two top-level executives for the Book Trust, a non-profit organisation in the US that provides underprivileged children with the opportunity to enjoy and have their own books.
Talent management specialist Ochre House has appointed to Stephen Gilbert as client services director EMEA.
Gilbert joins from KellyOCG where he was global account director.
Ochre House’s O2 team welcomes two new senior recruitment advisers, Estelle Jackson and Helen Stone, and Ravinder Bola as talent attraction specialist.