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Regions boost Penna’s momentum
May 23, 2013Penna’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
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A year in China: Phill Lane talks to Ri5
May 22, 2013 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
AGR & AGCAS aim to ‘level playing-field’ for graduates
May 24, 2013Following 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
Graduate jobs forecast to grow by 8%
May 21, 2013Research 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
London driving UK recovery
May 22, 2013Only 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
Game on for aspiring graduates
May 20, 2013A 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
Milkround claims top spot for sixth successive year
May 21, 2013According 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
Free Recruitment Society event in Manchester
May 20, 2013On 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
Number of women entering technology falling
May 21, 2013Research 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
2013 MARAs open for entries
May 22, 2013Now in their fourth year, the 2013 Marketing & Advertising Recruitment Awards are open for entries ... more or comment here
New talent management/applicant tracking software launches
May 21, 2013Following 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
2013 RMAs: shortlist revealed
May 15, 2013Following 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
Building a winning graduate employment proposition
May 13, 2013What 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 in administration
May 15, 2013TheLadders.co.uk has entered administration, as an insolvency notice on its website confirms ... more or comment here
New partners at 33
May 15, 2013Following 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
Jobs growth set to continue through second quarter
May 13, 2013The 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
What makes an outstanding graduate employer?
May 14, 2013Linked 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
Conference update
May 14, 2013With 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
Slight rise in unemployment
May 15, 2013ONS 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’ unique users up by 12%
May 14, 2013prospects.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 of the Year’ competition launches
May 13, 2013Graduate 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 crisis eases, study shows
May 14, 2013Britain'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
New awards initiative from Prospects
May 7, 2013Graduate 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
Career development boosts public sector’s appeal
May 8, 2013According to new research from Totaljobs, the majority of job-seekers would prefer to work in the public sector ... more or comment here
Majority of graduates ‘optimistic’ about prospects
May 7, 201353% 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
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