In-house recruitment

Availability continues to rise for both perm and temp candidates

November saw increased availability of workers for the ninth straight month of the year, countered by lingering economic uncertainty and hesitancy to commit to new hires.

11 December 2023

11 most influential in-house recruiters

Welcome to the 11 Most Influential In-house Recruiters report.

12 September 2023

REC writes to Minister of State for Immigration over digital RTW checks

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has revealed that it has written to the Minister of State for Immigration expressing concerns over the new digital right to work (RTW) checking system.

Creative/Digital/Media, HR 22 November 2022

TA professionals flock to RecFest 2022

This year's RecFest drew thousands of talent acquisition professionals to the event.

Hospitality/Leisure 13 September 2022

11 Most influential in-house recruiters: 2022

Welcome to the nineth 11 Most Influential In-house Recruiters report.

13 September 2022

Dive in to the talent pool

A new report from The Forum for In-House Recruitment Managers (The Firm) suggests that while most organisations use talent pools to fill their roles, not many do it effectively

HR 11 July 2022

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 7-11 MARCH 2022

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Compass Group, The Curve Group, Walmsley Wilkinson

NEW TO THE MARKET: 7-11 MARCH 2022

This week’s new launches include: Astute Technical Recruitment, Circular.io, Sterling, YoungOnes

Recruitment drives and encouraging ex-offenders into employment

The Student Loans Company, BT and EE launch recruitment drives, while new employability boards aim to help prisoners obtain gainful work.

Midlands News leaps from page to launch employment agency

News publisher the Midlands News Association (MNA), which produces the Express & Star, Britain’s biggest-selling regional news title, has broken into the recruitment agency market.

Report on the US: Silicon Valley faces attraction challenge

Despite being world-renowned as a centre of the tech industry, Silicon Valley has fallen some way behind other cities as an attractive destination for ICT talent, finds a report from analytics firm Intelligence Group.

'Graduates only' job spec causes degree of angst at TUC

Controversy over the recruitment process for a job at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that specified it was for graduates only has taken on wider implications at the organisation, The Guardian reports.

Jobswatch: New roles at Mandiant, Picturehouse, Pizza Hut and Nypro

New jobs have been promised in Dublin at IT security firm Mandiant and at medical devices firm Nypro Healthcare in Bray, 20km south of Dublin, and across the UK with cinema group Picturehouse and restaurant chain Pizza Hut.
IT/Telecoms 10 December 2012

How (not) to do recruitment videos, Twitter-style

Dry humour and deliberately low production values are the central features of a recruitment and attraction video launched earlier this year by social network Twitter.
IT/Telecoms 7 December 2012

Public sector looks to Sugar-coat talent with Apprentice-style contest

Specialist HR body the Public Sector People Managers’ Associations (PPMA) is to launch an Apprentice-style competition to identify and boost the next generation of people leaders in the public sector.
HR, Public sector 7 December 2012

Clean-up of Sellafield site to bring 500 new jobs

Accelerating the safe and efficient clean-up of nuclear site Sellafield will create 500 new jobs, energy minister John Hayes announced yesterday.

Blears’ Parliamentary Bill looks to make advertising unpaid internships illegal

Former cabinet minister Hazel Blears MP yesterday [5 December] read a bill to the House of Commons that seeks to “prohibit the advertising of long-term unpaid internships” and further regulate conditions of employment for paid internships.

US: Labor Department opens free-to-use database of 3,000 candidates with disabilities

The US Department of Labor has built a database of nearly 3,000 candidates with disabilities, available for use free by private and public sector employers, in collaboration with the Department of Defense’s Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity.
Public sector 6 December 2012

Agnew takes APAC talent role at Philips

Alan Agnew has been appointed head of talent acquisition ASEAN [Association of South East Asian Nations] & Pacific at electronics firm Philips.
HR, Industrial/Manufacturing 5 December 2012

Sky people director takes talent VP role at CIPD, president Rider re-elected

Deborah Baker, director of people at broadcaster Sky, has been elected to the two-year vice-presidency for organisation, resourcing & talent planning at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
HR 5 December 2012

Engineers AMEC set to hire 300 for new Kuwaiti refinery

International engineering and project management company AMEC expects to hire 300 people following a $528m (£328m) contract award by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company for a new oil refinery at Al Zour, Kuwait.
Engineering, Executive search 5 December 2012

US Staffing Index takes regular Thanksgiving drop

Death and taxes may be the only certainty in life as a whole, but for the US staffing industry, a significant drop in activity in the last week in November is also so regular you could set your clock by it.
5 December 2012

Jaguar Land Rover gets new HRD from Diageo

Automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will appoint new HR director Simon Lenton, effective 14 January 2013.
Engineering, HR 4 December 2012

New graduate scheme at risk management firm DNV

Risk management and sustainability services provider DNV has established a UK graduate programme to develop new talent in the energy and maritime industries.
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