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Confidence in employment dips slightly in April
Employer confidence dipped slightly in April from a record high level in March, reveals the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) JobsOutlook survey, based on responses from 200 UK employers. It shows that 66% of firms are due to increase their use of permanent workers in the next three months, with only 6% predicting a slight decrease, and none foreseeing significant decreases.
Sainsbury’s to hire 6,000 across next year
Supermarket Sainsbury’s will hire 6,000 over the next year through a mixture of new stores and expansions. A spokesperson for the firm tells Recruiter that the average supermarket employs around 250 people in 35 different positions ranging from deputy managers to team leaders, category assistants, online managers and customer service advisors.
Class of 2012 make record number of applications
Final year university students are pushing hard to enter the job market after graduation, but the number of jobs available to them remains below pre-recession levels. This is according to two reports from High Fliers Research: the ‘UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012’ and ‘The Graduate Market in 2012’, based respectively on surveys of 17,737 final year student at 30 UK universities in March, and 100 top employers in December of last year.
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.
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