Just under half (48%) of New Zealand employers are having trouble filling key positions within their organisations – up from 37% last year, according to the ‘Talent Shortage Survey’ from ManpowerGroup.
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Unemployment rates dropped in April in 342 (or 92%) of the US’s 372 metropolitan areas compared with the same month last year, reports the national Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The department for business, innovation and skills’ (BIS’s) Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has made Kim Thorneywork interim chief executive.
Law firm Blake Lapthorn has appointed Mike Wilson as a partner in its employment practice group in its Southampton office.
REC Healthcare, the newly formed specialist sector group for Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) members working in health and social care recruitment, has co-opted nine members onto its committee.
Almost three out of five (57%) employers say they have reduced their use of temporary agency workers as a result of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), according to a new survey.
Lord Browne, the former chief executive of oil giant BP, has urged businesses to end discrimination on the grounds of sexuality, saying that “merit must never be sacrificed” in business and personnel decisions.
Outsourcing firm MITIE Group has awarded £300k of investment capital to ProFinda, an online talent matching website that uses the technology behind dating websites.
Just 11% of business services firm were implementing a recruitment freeze in Q1 2012, down from 17% in the last quarter of 2011.
A new Channel 4 series is to be shown this October and aims to give unemployed people the opportunity to gain experience working with high-profile experts in a new hotel.