Recruitment agencies are designed to help connect companies with potential employees, but occasionally they can prove to be a road block for PAs, as Adam Russell discovered first hand “I had a **** of a day yesterday”… “You need to get off your high horse, why should I drop everything for you?” This is how […]

Promoting existing female talent is better for diversity than recruiting more women, leading to calls to promote ‘corporate culture’ in the UK. The study by the Boston Consulting Group found that while senior managers favoured a focus on recruiting more women, schemes aimed at supporting retention and promoting women already in the company had a […]

UK employers value more than just work-related skills in young people coming out of the education system and into the workplace, according to a study by education charity Central YMCA, which found that managers also look for certain personal skills. The survey of senior managers at more than 200 businesses revealed that learning new skills […]

Office supplies company Fellowes has announced the launch of the ‘next generation workstation,’ which hopes to boost European productivity by 60% and potentially save billions of Euros in the process. The move towards Sit-Stand technology aims to encourage active working as a way to retain talent, increase worker productivity, lower absence and reduce illness. Statistics […]

With around one in seven Brits hoping to be self-employed at some point in their career, property letting agent City Breaks in Newcastle has surveyed small and medium business owners to identify why so many are attracted to the idea of becoming their own boss, with some even taking a pay cut in the process. […]

A study has revealed that people never bounce back from unemployment, creating a ‘new normal’ for our wellbeing that never returns to previous levels. Damaging health and wellbeing regardless of age, gender or nationality, unemployment is something that the mind never truly adapts to. Individuals examined in the study were found to have lower life […]

Almost half of employers admit to having no strategies or programmes put in place to achieve equality in the workforce, even though most companies consider it priority. The British workforce is made up of over 32 million people, and approximately 46% of those are women, a number that has almost doubled since the 1970s, but […]

A rising number of employees working past traditional retirement age could affect a company’s ability to recruit new talent, according to a study by consultancy company Portus. As more people can’t afford to retire into their 60s and beyond, 41% of HR executives believe companies will struggle to recruit and retain new staff. 1.19 million […]

Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) equality charity, has launched its new and improved inclusive jobs hub, Proud Employers. Created to enable LGBT jobseekers to find employment with organisations they know respect and embrace their identity, Proud Employers will list jobs at any level across all sectors. The new, fully responsive jobs board […]

The true cost of hiring staff is almost double their salary during the first year of employment, a study by leading serviced offices provider BE Offices (BE) has revealed. Based on current Government figures BE closely examined all the costs of employing a new member of staff on an average annual salary of £27,600 and […]

A social media survey carried out by recruitment consultant Rytons Associates has produced some interesting findings on the hobbies and interests CV debate. Rytons Director Patrick Murtagh posed the question of the importance of including this section on a CV on LinkedIn recently, and the response he received was massive. The move came because a number […]

While the short-term outlook for employment remains strong, labour and skills shortages are starting to bite in UK sectors that employ a high number of EU nationals, according to the latest Labour Market Outlook from the CIPD and The Adecco Group. The report suggests that despite a near record number of vacancies (748,000 according to […]

Firms are losing top talent through failures in career and succession planning and the movement of talent within their businesses, according to an HR Innovation Practices Observatory run by Politecnico di Milano School of Management. Firms often endorse the traditional ‘career ladder’ model, which moves talent vertically within a single business function. Yet this alienates multi-talented […]

Professional recruitment firms reported that vacancy numbers and hiring flatlined in November, with the number of permanent vacancies rising by just 0.3% year-on-year according to new survey data from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo). This is in line with the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which reported in December that employment […]

31 January is the day Brits are most likely to hand in their notice and leave their job, new research from Crunch Accounting reveals. The study found that a potential 10.3 million workers are considering moving on professionally (32.5% of the UK’s workforce) – but most will hang on until after January’s payday before handing […]

Sue Trombley, Managing Director of Thought Leadership at Iron Mountain explains why job-hopping employees create data privacy problems for themselves and their employers. Job hopping is the new normal. Talk to anyone in their early 30s and the chances are they will have changed jobs at least four times[1] since leaving full-time education. This trend […]

The underlying strengths of the UK’s labour market will see jobs growth continue into 2017, according to the latest CBI/Pertemps Network Group Employment Trends Survey. The annual survey – in its 19th year, with 353 respondents employing nearly 1.2 million people – found that four in 10 (41%) firms across the UK will grow their […]

The rise in the number of NEETs – people aged 16 to 24 who are not in education, employment, or training – means employers must revaluate assessment processes sooner rather than later, according to global talent acquisition and management firm Alexander Mann Solutions. Responding to the latest data from the ONS, which revealed a significant […]