Accountants with good cost analysis skills are increasingly in demand, according to Chris McCarthy, director at Hays Senior Finance. McCarthy told Recruiter: “Analysts are in demand. I know one organisation that was making a lot of people redundant but carried on recruiting analysts. Companies want them for the commercial savings they can bring.
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Confidence continues to rise among employers over their short term and long-term hiring intentions, according to the REC’s March JobsOutlook.
For the third month in a row the REC Confidence Index has risen to the highest point since last April last year.
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The vast majority of the 4,300 roles to be created by the John Lewis Partnership this year will be based in the UK, according to a spokesperson for the retailer. The spokesperson told Recruiter that 3,000 of the new jobs would be at Waitrose with the remainder created at John Lewis.
Monster.co.uk has launched an iPad app.
Launched on the day in which UK consumers took receipt of the first iPad2’s off the production line, the app matches skills with vacancies and enables jobseekers to view jobs from their iPad.
The app also sends job alerts, while candidates can also search on location, save job searches and apply for jobs from their iPad.
More than two in three UK firms think employment legislation changes, such as the phasing out of the default retirement age (DRA), will hit economic recovery and job creation in the year, according to research from international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
UK labour productivity rose year on year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
The data reveals that in the fourth quarter of 2010 the headline measure of whole-economy labour productivity, output per worker, rose 0.8% on the same quarter a year ago, but fell 0.3 per cent compared with the previous quarter.
Members of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) have elected eight newcomers and re-elected five returnees to the organisation’s Executive Committee for 2011-2012.
Fewer job opportunities were posted in April than March, according to the latest Reed Job Index.
The index posted a reading that was 3 index points down on March but still 22% up on the same period last year.
Multi-sector recruiter Now Recruitment is relocating its Birmingham headquarters to Edgbaston House in the city.
The firm, moving from its previous office at The Square, Broad Street, has taken over the fifth floor of the office block, which boasts 3,250sq ft of space across one open plan office.