... advice to heart. Willis says: "My new image has made me more confident in front of colleagues and suppliers. In my new job, my ... I have also changed my make-up to make it lighter and more modern, as Gail suggested." Six months ago, 45-year-old Peter Hayes, ...

... feature of the labour market. On any given day in the UK more than 1 million people are working in temporary or contract assignments. ... wide variety of reasons, from finding work and earning money more quickly, to working flexible hours and using the experience to progress ...

Recruiters are more optimistic about the prospects for their businesses than a year ago, with more than 70% predicting a rise in profits in Q2 when compared to Q2 2016, ... Barometer, produced by Alex Arnot, non-executive adviser to more than 20 recruitment firms, in association with Recruiter. Nearly a ...

... experienced hires who want to pivot their careers and more widely diverse individuals. In the report, BDO showcases firms that have ...

... staff [for our client] and to retain them. We will become a more important portal [for them] to find jobs." Van der Tang emphasised that he was not advocating more red tape, but a "more pragmatic approach". And he pointed to continental ...

... have responded accordingly and have figured out how to get more for less. Land Rover is a case in point. “It used to be a ... automatically included in an advertising budget. Not any more. Now we have to really prove our value,” he explains. Hard times ...

... on the cost of a product comes at the design stage, where more than 90 per cent of the final cost is fixed," says Terry Mackay, an ... in Britain used to liaise with these suppliers, but no more. "Now we have people in Hong Kong, covering the Far East," he says. ...

... face having to give holiday pay to workers going back more than 20 years. She said that recruiters and employers who engage ... McDermott said what made the ECJ ruling potentially more damaging to employers was because it used the EU’s definition of ... Working Time Directive (WTD), which is wider than the UK’s more restrictive UK definition. The WTD became law in 1996, which allows claims ...

... of economic recession, when consumer spend is down, it was more important than ever to understand customer needs and how to satisfy them. ... and food is basically a retail skill, though one that’s more complicated than selling pots and pans. Depending on the hotel sector, any ...

... broad or vague. So, what do these benefits look like on a more practical, day-to-day level in my own industry: recruitment? For one ... of hearing everyone else’s conversations, and – more disconcertingly – everyone else hearing yours. On another practical ...