Supermarket Tesco has increased the number of its graduate schemes, as its graduate intake begins this week.
Applications are open this week for 2010/11 graduate schemes, including with 191 graduates and 52 school leavers for 2009/10 entry joining Tesco this month.
Education and children’s services leadership recruitment and development specialist Navigate has appointed ex-Rockpools head Shahidul Miah to run its new London office.
The former head of Rockpools’ education practice relocates to Navigate’s High Holborn in London office and is an extension of the company’s Leeds office, which already serves the North and the Midlands.
The government has announced that the maximum compensation award for unfair dismissal is to increase by 5.1% in February next year.
According to employment lawyer EMW Picton Howell, the recession will mean that the number of compensation pay outs will inevitably increase.
US business magazine Forbes suggests that workers made redundant who leave with a healthy package should either save their money or take a holiday.
“Cancel the cable [extended TV service] and start reading career guides. Or you can book a flight to the Philippines and live like a king for six months,” the magazine says.
Despite the government’s historic bailouts and an eye-watering fiscal stimulus, one recruiter remains positive about a whole raft of opportunities in the public sector next year.
David Pyle, spokesman for Synergy Group, which has added a candidate training service to its offering, says the company still expects to grow by 10% next year and by the same amount in 2010.
Jobs in the public sector are becoming more popular due to the recession, according to new research.
The research, from England’s Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), shows there has been a 40% increase in recruitment enquiries for jobs in teaching, the civil service and the charitable sector.
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The outsourcing industry performed poorly in the second half of 2008 as the recession took hold, according to a new survey.
Recruiters are remaining positive despite gloomy predictions from the CIPD’s chief economist.
John Philpott said last week that the speed and size of the contraction of the UK economy had been heart shattering. He added that any relative optimism about the outlook for jobs this year and next had all but evaporated.
International executive search consultancy GRS has taken on five senior hires for its insurance and pensions team.