The Eurozone crisis has cast a dark shadow over longer-term growth prospects, but the UK’s short-term confidence has improved to a 12-month high, according to the latest Business Trends report by accountants and business advisers BDO.
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The number of employers dissatisfied with school and college leavers’ basic skills remains stuck at around a third – the same as a decade ago – with 42% reporting that they have had to provide remedial training for school and college leavers.
Oil & gas producer Statoil is to establish an operating centre in Aberdeen as part of two projects that could create 1,300 jobs starting in late 2016, a company spokesperson tells Recruiter.
In challenging business conditions, what are the M&A (mergers and acquisitions) prospects for a successful recruiter? What will make an agency attractive to a buyer and will AWR have an impact on buyer appetite?
The chief executive of international industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, says the world is experiencing “a new zeitgeist” in the form of a global manufacturing renaissance.
The Australian Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ministry has committed to putting locals first for new jobs in the country’s mining boom.
Proposals have been made for taking action on the significant under-representation of ethnic Chinese Malaysian citizens in recruitment to the country’s public sector.
Professional services firm PwC’s head of people Gaenor Bagley says the firm’s new apprenticeship scheme in its tax practice should provide “a real alternative for talented students who want to get into business straight from school or college”.
Retail recruiters tell Recruiter that the sale of many outlets of gift and card retailer Clinton Cards to a US firm provides a much-needed boost to the high street.
The main impact of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) may be that they are causing frustration for agencies, notes The Employment Agents Movement’s (TEAM’s) AWR Survey.