Archive for June 2012
The Olympics could provide a boost to employer confidence as a quarter of UK bosses say they think the games will be good for their businesses with only four percent predicting a negative impact on their bottom line, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s (REC) JobsOutlook survey.
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United Kingdom: General staffing recruitment up 11.5%
Posted by Deb in Accounting and Finance, HR, IT, Law, Marketing and Communications, UK, UK News
The number of full-time general staffing roles advertised across the UK rose by 1.11% across the month of May compared to the previous month, with the number of jobs up 11.5% since the year began.
This is according to the Adecco Job Watch, which also shows that the demand for temporary workers increased most sharply in the telecoms and legal sectors.
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The Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics) has published research into immigration and the UK labour market, finding more than 14% of the working age population, were born abroad.
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IT now employs one in 18 of the UK’s entire workforce, with sector jobs predicted to grow at 2.2% per annum, says The IT Job Board.
This rate of growth is nearly five times faster than the UK average.
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Retailer John Lewis is the top company to work for in the UK, according to a survey of nearly 8,000 jobseekers.
In Randstad’s inaugural research, more than half of the jobseekers and workers participating in the survey chose John Lewis as the company they would most like to work for.
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Public-sector employers are finding it difficult to recruit and retain staff as cuts bite and the sector loses its appeal to candidates, according to research published today by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
The Annual Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey sought responses from more than 500 employers, and found that 82% of respondents had experienced difficulties in filling at lease some of their vacancies during the past few months. This is an increase from 75% in 2011′s survey.
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United Kingdom: Eurozone troubles hit recruitment, despite increased business optimism
Posted by Deb in UK
Anxiety about the ongoing uncertainty in the eurozone is causing recruiters in London to halt their recruitment plans, despite overall business optimism being higher than six months ago.
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New Zealand: Quake rebuild delays drive workers out of Christchurch
Posted by Bernadette in NZ, NZ News, NZ Research
Tradesmen and builders are leaving Christchurch in frustation over a lack of work and continuing delays to the quake-hit city’s reconstruction.
Although recruitment agencies continue to advertise overseas for qualified tradespeople to help with the devastated city’s rebuild, local workers say there’s not enough work to go around as it is.
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Recruitment firm Morgan McKinley updated its estimates for new jobs and new candidates in London, in financial services, this week.
They show two things: jobs are still a lot lower than before the fall; candidate numbers have collapsed in the past six months.
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Over two in five (41.4%) of new IT jobs are now to be found in London, a rise from when the capital accounted for just over a third (33.8%) in 2008.
This is according to a new study by business and technology staffing firm ReThink Recruitment of new IT jobs created in the UK so far in 2012.
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