PA Life has teamed up with SecsintheCity, the UK’s only specialist job site for PAs, EAs and other business support professionals. We want to help you find your next PA job, whether you want to be located in the UK or Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, North America or even Oceania. The world is your […]
Are you looking for a new role? Look no further than the SecsintheCity Jobs Board right here on PA Life. You can now search for the latest business support job openings in finance, legal, media, fashion, marketing and many more industries. You will also find Private PA roles if you rather work with high profile […]
The SecsintheCity 2022 Salary Survey Report, shines a light on Assistants’ salaries, bonuses and benefits and reveals the real picture of post-pandemic employment. PA Life has some exclusive insights below on the Assistants salary survey results. In Early 2022, SecsintheCity set out to understand how the previous 12 months have impacted the working lives of […]
It’s a record year in the legal market in the UK and an extraordinary time for City law firms recruitment. As many as 85% of them are planning to increase staff numbers for the remainder of 2022. The new jobs data has been released by the global recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. 85% of law firms […]
Over a third of adults (34%) are looking to change job or career in the next two years, according to the latest results of the largest survey of adult participation in learning in the UK. Learning and Work Institute’s (L&W) survey finds that over two thirds (69%) of the people looking to switch say they […]
The professional recruitment market has continued to perform exceptionally well with ‘huge’ increases in year-on-year vacancy and placement figures, while monthly data points towards steady hiring despite the usual summer dip associated with holiday season. That’s according to the latest Recruitment Trends Snapshot report from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). The data, provided […]
Over the last year the labour market has changed drastically, from furlough schemes to working from home, to businesses shutting their doors completely. With this in mind Bionic wanted to find out where across the UK unemployment is rising, which industries are offering the most vacancies, and what salaries are increasing. Currently the UK’s national average […]
The professional recruitment sector is seeing ‘massive’ spikes in year-on-year vacancy and placement figures as the UK gets back to business as we start to emerge from a year of stop start lockdowns. That’s according to the latest Recruitment Trends Snapshot report from The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). The data, provided by growth […]
Enterprises need to improve their digital workplaces in order to attract and retain talent, and knowledge workers are delaying career moves under lockdown due to concerns about employee experience in new roles. That’s according to research released by Sinequa, which cites larger employers such as Google and Salesforce already confirming they were not planning on staff returning […]
If the New Year saw you resolve to step up the career ladder – or even consider something completely different, read on for some useful advice for anyone, no matter what your circumstance… According to the latest YouGov data, over a fifth (22 per cent) of Brits said they were likely to be on the […]
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will have a widespread but mixed impact on jobs, new CIPD research shows. Overall, the says the introduction of these new technologies at work will see job opportunities grow, by enhancing roles, employee skills and their pay. However, lack of thought and planning on how people and […]
Nearly half of SME employees having quit a job because of a boss, while four in ten do not feel trusted or valued. That’s according to research from process management firm Process Bliss, which also revealed that 60% of UK SME employees believe the business would work better if they were left to get on with […]
University city rivals Oxford and Cambridge have overtaken Swindon to become the top cities in the UK to find a job, according to the latest research from job search engine Adzuna. In Cambridge, 25x more jobs are being advertised than there are jobseekers looking for positions, with the ratio of jobseekers to vacancies falling to 0.04 […]
Hiscox research has revealed working habits across various industries, pulling the fact from fiction when it comes to the securest of being more productive at work. Ten different industries were surveyed across the UK to see if there was any identification between the different types of workers, along with what drives them. Could anything be […]
New research commissioned by insurance experts Direct Line for Business has revealed that the entrepreneurial dream is alive and well in the UK, with 5.3 million people dreaming of becoming their own boss one day. The data, conducted by Optimum amongst a nationally representative panel of UK adults, found that over 8.6 million people currently […]
The professional jobs market is still remaining steady amid the chaos surrounding Brexit, according to new data from a survey compiled by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) on behalf of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). Professional recruitment firms reported that demand for permanent talent fell by 3% year-on-year in February 2019, while vacancies for […]
Boring canteen food, long hours and incompetent bosses are among the most common reasons why Brits quit their jobs, it has been revealed. Researchers who polled 2,000 workers found employees start thinking about leaving a job an average of three years and six months after starting. The list of reasons for quitting also includes feeling […]
A new app for EAs and PAs says it cuts out the middleman for job seekers. An app called Marlin, designed specifically for Personal and Executive Assistants on the hunt for a new job, says it can put users in direct contact with employers without the need to submit a CV or deal with recruitment agencies. So how […]
