As firms across the country look to make redundancies due to the recession, HR professionals and management need to communicate clearly and openly with workers, according to HR recruiters.
A recent survey from training provider Learn HR shows that 49% of staff are more anxious about their job than they were this time last year.
The financial services sector continued to experience a decline in hiring activity in November, according to a new survey.
A recruiter has entered into competition with TV presenter Jonathan Ross to determine just who can put on the most extravagant Christmas lights display.
Nick Robeson, chief executive at headhunters Alium Partners, has erected an eight-foot, inflatable bear complete with cubs.
Financial services recruitment is experiencing “extremely difficult” conditions due to the recession, according to a new survey.
The survey, from banking and finance recruiter Morgan McKinley, shows that there were 64% fewer new job vacancies created in financial services last month than in January 2008.
The construction workforce for the 2012 Olympic games is set to double over the next year, providing welcome job creation for recruiters in the sector.
The recruitment industry has a key role to play in ensuring that candidates armed with good customer service skills enter the hospitality industry, according to recruiters.
Staff in the travel and transport sector have been the hardest hit by the recession, according to new figures.
The figures, from jobsite TipTopJob.com, found that 93% of jobseekers visiting the site from the transport and travel sector are facing redundancy, followed by 92% of construction, engineering and manufacturing jobseekers, and 84% of IT and telecoms workers.
Recruiters in Glasgow have welcomed a new initiative to allow commuters to use mobile phones while on the underground, allowing them to forge better links with candidates and clients alike.
Workers in Glasgow’s international financial services district can now make calls, send texts, email and access mobile internet while on subway station concourses and platforms across the city.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson plans to create 23,000 new jobs with a £35m Business Start Up programme in the North-West.
At a breakfast summit, addressing local business leaders in Salford, Mandelson offered support to 12,700 new businesses in the region.
A proposed meeting between a consortium of medical locum recruiters and Baroness Vadreah, minister for small business, to discuss the removal of the VAT staff hire concession, due to take place in December, has been put on hold.