Employee Assistance Programmes, valuable support services usually reserved for large companies, are now available to SMEs. This follows the announcement that Right Management, a global leader in talent and career management workforce solutions within ManpowerGroup, has become the preferred partner of Croner. Croner is the UK expert in workplace...

The latest data from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s JobsOutlook shows that demand for temporary staff over the past month has remained stable and is up on the same time last year despite new regulations on agency work coming into force in October. The short term outlook for the...

Many of Britain’s financial leaders believe that a break-up of the euro would pose the biggest risk to financial jobs and business over the coming year, according to a new survey by financial services firm Deloitte. The finance directors surveyed in the research said that a Greek exit or...

Job opportunities were 17 per cent higher in December compared to the same time last year and more than a fifth higher than two years ago, according to the Reed Job Index analysis of job vacancy trends from over 8,000 recruiters across the UK Seasonal falls in vacancies saw...

According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Britain’s failing schools are ‘forcing UK firms to choose foreign workers’ who are hard working, punctual and have a more positive attitude. aspect.co.uk – one of Britain’s fastest growing property maintenance companies – are expanding their successful London operation nationally...

A poll conducted by Monster shows why it’s important not to get too carried away with the mistletoe at the office party as almost one in ten admit to having done something either extremely regrettable and been fired because of it (four percent), or have acted in a way...

The current skills gap is preventing the UK IT industry from competing with the US, according to a survey from CWJobs.co.uk, which finds that 61{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} of IT pros believe there is currently a skills shortage in the UK. The leading specialist IT recruitment website conducted research amongst 1,300 UK...

Research recently released by 2e2, the ICT services company, has shown the need for UK businesses to change traditional working practices while at the same time maintaining informal employee interaction. In a survey of nearly 2,000 office workers, 63{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} said they feel restrained by traditional 9 to 5 working...

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has received a response from the Department for Education (DfE) clarifying the department’s interpretation of R.3(2) of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), which allows professionals to be exempted from scope of the AWR. This follows the publication of amended guidance for teachers on...

In its latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published recently, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) projected that general government employment would fall by 710,000 between the first quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2017. However, as Dr John Philpott notes, it is important to recognise that...

Networking has always been important but with the explosion of social media, its importance has dramatically increased research from talent and career management consultancy. Facebook hot on the heels of LinkedIn as the most useful social network site for sourcing candidates Video technology to become more prolific in hiring...

More than 2 million public sector workers in the UK have walked off the job over pension reforms, sparking major travel delays. The coordinated industrial action is the country’s largest one-day strike in 30 years. Nine out of 10 state schools are closed, trash will not be collected, hospitals...

Companies are facing a talent crisis, as they can’t afford to train existing staff and struggle to recruit skilled hires, according to data from Modis International [Modis], a global leader in IT recruitment. The poll of senior IT leaders suggests that ongoing economic uncertainties and departmental cuts are changing...

The Department for Education has revised its Agency Workers Regulations guidance, first issued in August 2011, to state its view that teachers cannot be outside the scope of the AWR using the professions exclusion at R.3(2). This view is made on the basis that “the relationship between hirers and...

Employers who impose strict policies against the use of social networking tools designed for business are at risk of alienating ‘Generation Facebook’ from joining their organisation. Nearly half (47.8{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) of  younger workers (aged 16 – 24) claim they would not work for companies  who impose such measures, according to...