Hiring among UK medium and large-sized organisations contracted in the final three months of 2011 as employers battled to overcome candidate skills shortage, rising costs and economic uncertainty, according to the latest ‘Tracking UK Recruitment’ quarterly report by professional staffing recruitment consultancy Barclay Meade. The UK jobs market had...

Dr John Philpott, Chief Economic Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) comments as follows on official labour market statistics for the period November 2011 – January 2012 published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS): “Any rise in unemployment is a great regret...

Recruiters can improve the speed and efficiency of their graduate selection process and save money by rethinking the way they sift and select candidates, according to Talent Q, the talent assessment specialist. The company is calling for organisations to ‘front-load’ their hiring process with job-relevant assessments, in order to...

Monster Employment Index U.S. Rises 11{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} on Annual Basis. Monster Employment Index U.S. shows annual growth of 11 percent in February Index rises 8 percent on monthly basis in line with regular seasonal patterns observed for the month of February Commerce activity continues to rise with transportation and warehousing,...

Survey of 1400+ employment professionals reveals major criticisms of current and future work regulations in the UK One in five HR professionals expect cost of tribunal claims to rise for employers, despite falling numbers 25.8{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} of HR professionals want to abolish TUPE regulations; 23.4{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} would axe the Agency Workers...

Chief Economic Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), will argue that even a relatively modest economic recovery in 2012 could see UK unemployment stabilise at around the current rate of 8.4{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e}, while a stronger recovery has the potential to result in a sudden sharp fall...

Job opportunities across the country rose more sharply in February than in January, up 17 Index points month-on-month, while salaries are back to the level of 23 months ago. The report, which examines trends from over 8,000 UK recruiters, gives a Reed Job Index reading of 140, the highest...

German companies are looking beyond their traditional export markets.   A government agency is looking into new investment opportunities in hitherto untapped markets of the future. What’s important for German companies is that Slovakia is investing heavily in roads and railways. The country is also a main producer of electronics...

The Institute of Directors’ (IoD) survey of 1,000 business leaders also said that 53{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} thought there was a moderate recession risk. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has predicted a UK recession in the first half of 2012.  The UK economy shrank by 0.2{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} in the last...

Dr John Philpott, Chief Economic Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) comments as follows on official labour market statistics for the period October-December 2011 published earlier today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS): “The latest headline jobs data are considerably better than expected but...

A poll conducted by Monster reveals that workers are more than willing to  forgo lunch with nearly one third of global respondents (30 per cent) eating whilst working or not taking a break at all. In comparison, workers in the UK are considerably more likely than other countries to...

With January’s unemployment figures expecting to remain high, data from de Poel, the UK’s number one procurer of temporary agency labour, reveals that the use of temporary staff in the UK rose by 13{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} in January compared to the same period last year. Figures from de Poel show that...

75{6060b2de664e4eaa3e7b7e86961ce2c4bbd7a29b6c1097abf8257a4e5b07383e} of an organisation’s total expenditure is spent on people, making them the most expensive asset. Making the right selection choice is therefore essential to the success of an organisation and the wellbeing of its staff. Effective talent measurement and occupational assessment can save organisations time and money while...