The number of confirmed City job offers fell 21% in December, compared to the previous month, according to a study from pre-employment screening firm Powerchex.
The research reveals investment banks saw opportunities drop by 65%, while vacancies in insurance firms were down 17%.
Eight in 10 female workers feel they are being underpaid, according to research from salary comparison site MySalaryChecker.com.
The research also shows a third (38.2%) of women thought they were underpaid by as much as 25%. Almost a third (32.9%) of female workers expect a pay rise of between 2% and 4% in 2011, compared with the expectations of male colleagues (28%).
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). The pair married on the island of Barbados last month. The couple have also joined forces at work, with Prestwich joining his wife’s business as a co-director in the firm’s Leeds office.
Michael Page International has launched a new iPhone app.
Michael Page Jobs app features a version of the job search function and enables users to apply for jobs wherever they are straight from their iPhone.
The app also includes ‘Face the Panel’ feature that allows candidates to practise interview technique with a panel of experts.
More than a third of graduates (38%) have been on Jobseeker’s Allowance since leaving university and of this group, 37% have done so for more than six months, according to new research from Totaljobs.com.
One in five employees are worried about losing their job, according to the latest Employee Outlook Survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Executive search has hit “rock bottom” and it is time for search firms to fight back by marketing their services better, according to Derek Smart, the chair of the Association of Executive Recruiters (AER).
Smart told Recruiter that there was a perception among many employers that they could do executive search for themselves.
Wainewright: code will help familiarity
A new code of practice for the cloud computing industry has been introduced by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF).
Unemployment in Russia has fallen, according to the country’s Federal Agency for Statistics.
The data revealsunemployment rate dropped to 7.5% from 8.4% year-on-year in 2010.
Scotland’s private sector recorded job losses for a third month in a row, according to the Markit/Bank of Scotland Purchasing Managers Index (PMI).
January’s index posted a reading of 48.8, unchanged from December.
However, the seasonally adjusted index monitoring activity across Scotland’s manufacturing and service industries, rose from 36.9 in December to 52.9 in January.