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Collaborative, communicative, creative and flexible: IBM’s key attributes for the modern worker
The most prized employees across the modern world are those who are collaborative (say 75% of respondents), communicative (67%), creative and flexible (each 61%). This is according to the global results ‘2012 CEO Study’ from technology and consultancy firm IBM, revealed at a roundtable event in London yesterday (21 May), attended by Recruiter.
MoD submarine design contract supports and creates 1,900 jobs
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded contracts worth £350m to three UK companies to design the next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines, sustaining and creating a total of 1,900 jobs across the UK.
Financial services gender pay gap at 21%, says eFinancialCareers
Women working in financial services in the UK earned on average 21% less than men in 2011, according to the latest ‘Salary and Bonus Survey Report’ from specialist jobsite eFinancialCareers. The report comes following a survey of 1,743 finance professionals in the UK in the first quarter of this year.
Midlands hospitals expand scheme for jobseekers
Three hospitals in the Midlands will take on unemployed jobseekers working in a variety of duties as they expand a trial programme.
Beecroft Report gives green light to simplification of Conduct Regulations
Recruitment industry experts expect to see a number of changes to the Conduct Regulations that govern the activity of recruitment agencies in the UK following consultation with the industry and interested parties in the next few months.
Leamington Spa recruitment MD defends scam-hit town
Leamington Spa is far from a town rife with recruitment-based fraud, Mark Esom, managing director of locally-based recruiter Fuel Recruitment, tells Recruiter. “I think the headline on the story is worse than the reality,” he says, referring to a recruiter.co.uk story of last Friday (17 May), suggesting that the fraud is “probably a couple of rogue individuals”.
Contracts/Deals: Absolute Recruitment recruits for second Boughey site
Industrial and commercial recruiter Absolute Recruitment is to be the sole recruiter on logistics firm Boughey Distribution’s site in Deeside near Chester. Absolute already recruits for Boughey’s other site in Wardle, Cheshire.
INTERNATIONAL US: Toyota brings 125 new jobs to Alabama
Auto maker Toyota will create 125 new jobs as it expands its Huntsville, Alabama engine manufacturing plant.
INTERNATIONAL Malaysia: Foreign Workers Act a must, say minister
More formalised laws on foreign workers are needed, says Datuk Seri [this is an honorary title] Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, Malaysia’s minister for law and parliamentary affairs.
UK & IRELAND Appointments: 3 Story Software make Pierson COO
Contingent workforce and vendor management system 3 Story Software has appointed Bradley Pierson as chief operations officer.
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