The Law Society has warned that removing certain provisions from the Equality Act will not help employers. The warning comes after the government published a series of amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill this week. The amendments, to be considered in the report stage of the Bill,...

Businesses are remaining ‘cautious’ with no dramatic headlines from this year’s local Salary Survey. But that’s no bad thing following several years of noticeable decreases and artificially high increases in pay, according to experts at Anne Corder Recruitment. The agency produces the Peterborough Local Market Survey in partnership with...

Speaking at APSCo’s Export Your Way Into Growth forum last week, Lord Green explained how recruitment companies should take the opportunity to support the British service sector overseas to facilitate the UK’s economic growth. Commenting on the shift in world power, he focused on growth areas in Africa, Latin America,...

The National Skills Academy for Retail (NSA for Retail) is trailblazing an innovative new training programme which will give young people across England an opportunity to kick-start a career in retail. The Retail Apprenticeship Scheme (RAS) is a new concept which aims to unearth and develop the best young...

The employment rate for new graduates remains relatively stable at 61.8{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} (62.2{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} in 2011), indicating that career prospects are better than feared despite a weakening economy and further job losses from public spending cuts, according to research published today (11 October 2012) by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit...

Job interviews leave UK’s job hunters lost for words according to new research from Hays, the leading recruiting expert. In a survey of over 400 Brits looking for a new role, just under two thirds (64{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) said their biggest fear before a job interview was not knowing the answer...

The average level of employee absence has fallen compared with last year from 7.7 days to 6.8 per employee per year, according to this year’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)/Simplyhealth Absence Management survey. However, the fall in absence levels coincides with almost a third of employers reporting...

September 2012 Index Highlights: The Monster Employment Index UK registers one per cent growth in September, continuing the rebound noted in August. The findings reflect recent ONS (Office of National Statistics) figures showing UK employment is at a four-year high Public Sector, defence, community charts the highest annual online...

Employers are ramping up their recruitment of temporary workers as Britain gets back to business after the Olympics, according to new research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). But permanent recruitment  shrinks 15{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} Graduate starting salaries slump 13.2{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} this year Placements of temporary staff in the UK...

A pay rise certainly helps to keep us content in our jobs, but in fact the no.1 factor for remaining happy at work is whether we have a good relationship with our work colleagues. 70{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} say their Œ9-to-5 buddies’ are crucial to enjoy a happy working life Two thirds...

Recent research has analysed the behaviour of 4.8 million jobseekers and 5,000 recruiters each month, reveals that competition for jobs has risen to 18 applications per job, following a drop earlier in 2012. This is despite an overall increase in the number of jobs available across the country. Nationally,...

The IT sector is placing new emphasis on recruiting women for IT roles. A recent survey by Computer Weekly and Mortimer Spinks shows that many women are being put off the idea of working in the IT sector. The survey showed of the IT professionals interviewed, three-quarters of women...

Only four percent of employers reported that they had reduced their use of agency workers in direct response to the Agency Worker Regulations, according to on-going analysis of the impact of the one-year-old rules conducted by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Further findings from the REC’s Industry Research...

Nearly 90 per cent of UK workers don’t want to make the daily commute into the office, and would prefer to work from home, according to a new study. The survey by staffbay.com, the social-media based recruitment website, shows that some 88 per cent said they would prefer to...