Archive for May 2012
Skills shortages are impacting on the growth of many UK businesses in the HR sector, according to a new report from recruiter Reed UK, which canvassed the views of 1,500 employers and employees.
The Reed HR 2012 Salary and Market Insight report reveals that losing talent is a key concern among senior management, with 39% of HR professionals admitting they have skills gaps in their organisation that are having an effect on their business’s performance and growth potential.
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Technology workers in New Zealand could see an average pay rise of 3.8 percent this year.
Results of this year’s guide show data architects and business analysts can expect the largest pay rises in 2012, 7.5 and 7.3 percent respectively, but the recruitment company predicts it will be a boon time for most IT professionals in the country.
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Nearly half of Kiwi employers are having trouble finding key staff, a survey from recruitment agency ManpowerGroup shows.
Manpower has released the results of its annual Talent Shortage Survey, showing 48 per cent of employers in New Zealand are experiencing difficulty filling job vacancies, up 11 percentage points from last year.
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United Kingdom: Believes That a Temporary Position Can Boost Your Job Prospects
Posted by Bernadette in Accounting and Finance, HR, IT, Law, Marketing and Communications, UK, UK News
With the number of temporary jobs increasing, reed.co.uk believes that being employed in a short-term role will help your future job search.
Is finding that perfect role taking longer than you would want to? Are you unsure of which industry you want to work in? Perhaps it is time to broaden your horizons, and start applying for temporary positions.
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United Kingdom: UK cybersecurity professionals are ‘too old’
Posted by Bernadette in UK, Uncategorized
The UK needs more young people entering the IT security profession if it is to avoid a skills shortage in the near future, according to the government’s special representative to business for cyber security. ”There are far too many people over 40 working in this area and not nearly enough in their twenties,” Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones told delegates at the ITEC conference in London yesterday.
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United Kingdom: European economic uncertainty erodes UK employers confidence to recruit, reports REC
Posted by Deb in Accounting and Finance, HR, Marketing and Communications, UK, UK News
Economic turbulence, including the woes of the eurozone, has affected employer confidence to recruit this month, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s (REC) JobsOutlook survey, the monthly survey of employers’ hiring intentions.
Although the overall outlook for the jobs market remains positive, the REC’s barometer of employer confidence has dipped since last month’s record high.
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Those travelling to the UK could be screened for tuberculosis before being granted a visa, the Home Office says.
The new rules will apply to those who wish to spend over six months in the UK and come from a country deemed to have a high incidence of TB.
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They enjoy huge salaries and nearly always have their own parking space, but which perks really count for the senior executives occupying the corner office on the top floor?
“Benefits aren’t what people take a job for but in a very competitive market, they can be what gets you over the line,” said Christine Deveney, a principal in the executive remuneration division at Mercer, the international HR advisory firm. “They show people you are actively looking after them.”
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United Kingdom: Base Pay For 9 Of 10 U.K. Investment Bankers Frozen
Posted by Bernadette in Accounting and Finance, UK, UK News
Fixed pay for nine out of ten investment-banking jobs in the U.K. has been frozen over the past year as financial job opportunities continue to shrink.
Approximately 92 percent of investment banking jobs didn’t see an increase in their base salaries for the year to March 31, the recruiter said in a statement today. Demand for staff in compliance and risk will improve as banks deal with increased regulatory pressures.
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An increasing number of financial services jobs are being created in Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester, rather than the industry’s traditional home in London.
More than half (55 per cent) of all new financial services job vacancies last month were located outside of the capital, according to London and Harrogate-based recruitment company BrightPool. This is compared to the 20 per cent share regional hubs were used to seeing before the credit crunch.
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