Sales and marketing are set to be the recruitment bright spots within the UK’s financial services industry in the first quarter of 2011. According to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey, firms are planning to invest more in marketing.
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City job vacancies rose 11% in January on last year, according to data from financial services recruiter Astbury Marsden.
The data shows vacancies rose from 4,920 in January 2010 to 5,440 last month.
Four in 10 employees plan to work past the default retirement age, set to be phased out in October next year, according to a survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The survey also reveals that 29% do not plan on working past the state retirement age and 25% don’t know either way.
The director of a rail staffing specialist recruitment firm has been banned from running an employment agency for seven years, following an investigation by the Employment Agency Standards inspectorate (EAS), part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. A
Ed Percival, business coach
Jaguar Land Rover has doubled the number of graduates it plans to recruit this year. The company plans to hire 280 graduates in 2011 compared to 135 last year. The 280 graduates will be hired for a variety of roles, including product development, engineering, manufacturing, finance, HR, IT, marketing and purchasing. The company’s graduate scheme runs for two years.
Mike Wall, group sales director of Jobsite, winner of the Best Multi-sector Job Board award “We are thrilled to have won this award. We were up against some stiff competition in our category.
Too often, the in-house vs agency recruitment dilemma is the most provocative debate on tap within the recruitment community. Or which kind of social media will work best for a particular organisation.
Recruitment has always involved the art of matchmaking, as demonstrated by Ruth Moran (managing director of Ruth Moran Consulting Rec2Rec) who married Neil Prestwich (formerly of Hays). See picture, right.
The notion that workers are “systematically coerced into working on a flexible basis” needs to be dispelled. So says Simon Noakes, chair of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) Construction Group.