A new mentoring programme aimed at senior industry practitioners has this week launched giving direct access to the industry’s highest-calibre communications professionals. The VMA Enhance Mentoring Partnership is a new initiative from VMA Enhance, the professional development arm of communications recruitment specialist, VMA Group. The Partnership has been specially...

Shares have jumped after eurozone leaders agreed a deal that they say will help resolve the debt crisis.   The eurozone agreed a deal on expanding the bailout fund and banks taking losses on Greek debt in exchange for recapitalisation.   Leaders from all 27 European Union nations have finally thrashed...

The US economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.5{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} in the third quarter of this year, according to figures from the US commerce department.   The published figure was in line with expectations and an improvement on growth in the second quarter of the year of 1.3 percent. Overall...

Organisations can achieve greater success by meeting the seven fundamental needs of employees, according to a new book by Jack Wiley, Ph.D., and Brenda Kowske, Ph.D, titled “RESPECT: Delivering Results by Giving Employees what They Really Want.” A world authority on the factors that motivate employees and how they...

A survey of nearly 250 students and graduates by graduate recruitment website Milkround found 37 percent of respondents had been discriminated against. Overall, 31 percent of those who had been discriminated against said they faced age discrimination, with 30 percent getting singled out based on their ethnicity. Male and...

Germany’s thirty largest companies recently announced their individual goals to increase the number of women in business corporate leadership, in the hopes of muting calls by some politicians to legislate gender ratios in the boardroom.  The blue-chip companies which make up the DAX stock index each presented their own...

28 percent of employees actively distrust the senior leaders in their organisation, according to a new study which exposes the dire consequences of distrust on staff retention, employee well-being and organisational performance. The Kenexa High Performance Institute, a division of Kenexa (NASDAQ: KNXA), a global provider of business solutions...

All the indicators in today’s labour market statistics from the Office of National Statistics suggest further deterioration in the jobs market: The headline unemployment figure from the Labour Force Survey increased by 114,000 over the quarter to August, taking the total to 2.57 million. The unemployment rate, at 8.1...

New research  has revealed that over half (57{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) of individuals made redundant as a result of the Government transition to the new look Work Programme, have been put off ever working in the sector again. The Government’s Work Programme, which aims to get the long term unemployed back into...

How do you produce a student resource that encourages excellence in researching potential graduate employer without spoon-feeding those students?  You hire a team of crack researchers and editors and brief them to produce an informational one-stop-shop for job candidates. You also secure the involvement of recruiters and give useful,...

With the ethical behaviour of organisations under increased scrutiny, the research explores how staff within large companies rate the ethics levels of their bosses. The results show that less than a third (30{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}) of CEOs of organisations with over 1,000 employees are seen by their employees to have ethics...

Nearly two thirds of office workers would rather take a pay cut than see a colleague lose their job – a new poll has revealed. The survey by officebroker, the UK’s leading serviced office broker, found that 62{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} of employees would rather sacrifice some earnings in order to keep...