More than four in 10 (44%) employers plan to increase permanent staff headcount in the next quarter, according to May’s JobsOutlook from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).
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Strategic outsourcing and energy services provider MITIE has launched PeopleCert, an employee screening service.
The Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) registered a value of 53.8 in May, down from 54.3 in April.
The index suggests that growth will still be marginally higher when compared to the six months to March, when output flat-lined. A PMI value above 50 is indicative of expansion in the sector, while a value below 50 suggests contraction, so the latest data points to deceleration.
The number of permanent placements and temporary billings both slowed at a weaker pace in May, according to the latest Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC)/KPMG ‘Report on Jobs’.
The report shows permanent placements and temp billings both rose at the weakest rates in seven months, and growth of job vacancies hit a five-month low in May.
Unemployment in Spain has risen for a third consecutive month in October, according to the country’s Labour Ministry.
Unemployment rose by 1.7% to around 68,000, pushing the total number of people claiming unemployment benefits to 4,086,000.
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Former Apprentice winner Lee McQueen is returning to his true calling of recruitment.
Premiership football giants Arsenal have been using psychometric tests to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their next generation of
Professional network LinkedIn has launched BrandYou, a pan-European campaign aimed at helping more people discover how managing a personal brand and reputation can play an important role in their career alongside experience and qualifications.
Generation Y doesn’t exist, so says Rouen business school researcher professor Jean Pralong.
A study found that attitudes toward the workplace and ideas about careers between Generation X (those born between roughly 1959 and 1981) and the so-called Generation Y are the same.
Job opportunities fell by 6% in November, according to the latest Monster Employment Index.