... approached, the future for NatWest looked uncertain. It had been through some tough times and despite making record profits in 1998, ... cost-saving measures. There will be an immediate freeze on recruitment and pay rises, we will try to get rid of contract staff and cut ...

... area, where they use a lot of casual and agency staff, it is a failure.” He argues that in that areas where there are good ... But according to Steve Huxham, chairman of the Recruitment Society, organisations don’t resort to using agency staff simply ...

... and the Employment Act to put us back on track. Now, it seems, the pendulum is swinging back the other way, but people’s reactions ... Elaine Howe, a former accountant who is now a partner in recruitment consultancy Working Options, which deals exclusively with ...

It’s the third best place to work in the UK, according to a survey published ... from the call centre into the procurement department where it soon becomes clear there is some serious business going on amid the fun and ... computer hardware and software, consultants and contractors, recruitment, marketing, direct mail, credit card printing and stationery have ...

It’s been described as the eighth wonder of the world. When the Eden Project in Cornwall opened in March 2001, it proved an immediate success. It may have opened at the height of the ... of a huge attraction, such as extra traffic congestion, recruitment problems for other companies as staff headed for Eden, and possible ...

... pay for women and yet the World Economic Forum has said it will be a further 217 years before we reach gender equality – 100 years ... a Times  Top 50 Employer for Women 2018 – the only recruitment company to feature.  We were also awarded a Gold Award for the ...

... the German enterprise software giant SAP. Plattner and Hopp, it gushed, had driven SAP to global dominance by developing powerful ... chain to firms. Unless the company is in an area where recruitment is a hot issue, for example, the calibre of its human resources ...

... – so long the jewel in the UK’s economic crown, giving it a competitive advantage over rule-bound and rigid Continentals – is under ... is always chopping and changing ever since I entered the recruitment industry, and what constitutes self-employed, employed and ...

... clients often ask 'What is the value of online media? Is it as valuable as its print equivalents?' The question is often phrased ... understanding of how they search for jobs or suppliers of recruitment services, and what they read, view or surf to keep themselves ...

... by relieving much of the routine administrative work. It can also perform previously impossible complex transactions to create access ... tool. They tend to improve employee satisfaction and hence recruitment and retention statistics, while offering cost containment ...