Penna’s regional recruitment business has grown by a third in the last five months, following a number of new business wins and increasing demands from existing clients. Teams in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester are all growing again. At Penna’s annual conference (held at News International’s London conference centre), the mood was upbeat ... more or comment here 2 comments
Last month’s Agency Bites carried a reference to Phill Lane’s return to Peer Group in London, following his secondment to Oxus, the leading employer branding and marketing firm in China. Ri5 arranged a meeting to get the full story. There were opportunities for R&R: our photo shows Phill at the Lijang Black Dragon Pool. ... more or comment here
Following a series of projects exploring the issues of social mobility, the HEAR and graduate transition to the employment market, the Association of Graduate Recruiters and the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services have together published a series of recommendations aiming to ‘level the playing-field’ in graduate recruitment ... more or comment here
Research from Incomes Data Services suggests that the number of graduate roles in the UK will increase by 8% over the coming year. Less welcome news for graduates, however, is that the majority of employers plan to freeze graduate starting salaries over the same period ... more or comment here
Only a couple of weeks ago, we reported that a quarter of Britain’s new jobs over the next five years look set to be created in the capital. Now another report, from the Centre for Economics and Business Research, indicates that the UK’s long-awaited recovery will indeed be “made in London” ... more or comment here
A challenging business game can be a great way to engage potential graduate recruits from around the world, as L’Oréal’s Sepha Brook and Alexandra Bennett recently explained to Ri5 ... more or comment here
According to the UK Graduate Careers Survey 2013, Milkround has been identified as the UK’s number-one graduate recruitment website for the sixth year running ... more or comment here 1 comment
On the early evening of Wednesday 12th June there’s an opportunity to meet the Society’s recently-appointed northern regional chair, Simon Bracewell, and the Guardian’s new northern editor, Helen Pidd ... more or comment here
Research from specialist technical job-board Technojobs suggests that, despite the various initiatives designed to encourage more women to go into traditionally male-dominated employment sectors such as IT, the number of women starting careers in them is actually falling ... more or comment here
Now in their fourth year, the 2013 Marketing & Advertising Recruitment Awards are open for entries ... more or comment here
Following a year in development including various stages of beta-testing and further fine-tuning, the resourcingpod applicant tracking and talent management system has finally been launched to customers ... more or comment here
Following the judging day of Tuesday 14th May, the shortlisted entries for this year’s CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards have now been finalised ... more or comment here 4 comments
What kind of sector would you expect the graduate employer of the year to be in – investment banking, perhaps? Maybe professional services? Accountancy? Or law? If car rental doesn’t immediately spring to mind, don’t worry – it’s probably not every graduate’s first thought, either. Ri5 talked to Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s European talent acquisition manager, Ashley Hever, to learn more about the multi-award-winning company’s success ... more or comment here
TheLadders.co.uk has entered administration, as an insolvency notice on its website confirms ... more or comment here
Following conversion to an LLP structure in 2012, ThirtyThree has made its first new partner appointments. Ben Nunn, Caroline Winder and Sue Redden in London, and Mark Beavan and Sandy Vossos in Bristol, have joined the Partnership from 5th April 2013. ... more or comment here 3 comments
The latest CIPD/Success Factors Labour Market Outlook report suggests that employment growth will continue during the second quarter of this year ... more or comment here
Linked to its long-term sponsorship of the TARGETjobs National Graduate Employer of the Year award, people communications agency Hodes recently presented the results of some new research into what makes an outstanding graduate employer ... more or comment here 1 comment
With several key recruitment-related events (including high-profile CIPD and AGR conferences) due to take place in London and South Wales over the next couple of months, we report on the latest developments to date ... more or comment here
ONS figures for the three months to the end of March reveal that the number of unemployed people in the UK rose by 15,000 ... more or comment here
prospects.ac.uk has enjoyed a 12% increase in visitors since last October, reinforcing its position as the UK’s most-visited student and graduate careers and jobs site ... more or comment here
Graduate careers site Milkround and classified search engine Adzuna have teamed up to launch the 2013 ‘Graduate of the Year’ competition ... more or comment here
Britain's “underemployment” problem of reluctant part-time workers is easing, new research has shown, as more full-time jobs were created for a seventh month running in April. By The Telegraph’s economics editor, Philip Aldrick. ... more or comment here
Graduate Prospects is launching a new initiative – the Prospects Postgraduate Awards – designed to recognise and reward those businesses and universities that demonstrate excellence and innovation in the postgraduate arena ... more or comment here
According to new research from Totaljobs, the majority of job-seekers would prefer to work in the public sector ... more or comment here
53% of graduates are feeling optimistic about their future career prospects, according to the latest annual Student and Graduate Career Confidence Report from Milkround ... more or comment here
"My goodness, Mr Thompson still looks exactly the same as he did when we worked together at..."
"Well done Milkround! Looks like all the back room work on the site is paying and will continue..."
"Interesting read and exciting to see that Penna are winning work outside of London. Around 6..."