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Hodes wins global Barclays account
Bernard Hodes Group has been appointed as Barclays’ global recruitment marketing partner following a competitive tendering exercise ... more or comment here 1 comment
DfT for Stafford Long
Following a three-way COI pitch, Stafford Long has been awarded the contract to handle the most senior-level appointments for the Department for Transport. ... more or comment here
exec-appointments.com relaunches
The Financial Times has just announced the relaunch of its global executive job-board exec-appointments.com, which forms an integral part of Financial Times Recruitment Solutions ... more or comment here
TARGETjobs 2010 awards: only a week to go!
The 2010 TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards ceremony is due to take place next Thursday evening (18th March) at London’s Grosvenor House – and if you haven’t yet booked your place, there’s still just time to do so ... more or comment here
Six weeks till second social media conference
The UK’s second Social Media in Recruitment conference is due to take place on Thursday 22nd April at the British Library Conference Centre in London, with some of the industry’s leading specialists in the field set to share their knowledge ... more or comment here
reed.co.uk hits #1
reed.co.uk has been the UK's most visited commercial job board so far in 2010. February's figures from Hitwise show reed.co.uk received 4.29% of all visits to Employment and Training sites in the UK ... more or comment here
Milkround Online launches new web resource
With confidence filtering back into the graduate recruitment market, Milkround Online has launched a new web resource for clients, recruiters and hiring managers ... more or comment here
Makeover for UCAS Media website
New development work has enhanced the UCAS Media website in order to provide customers and stakeholders with a clearer idea of the products and services available for targeting students (and their influencers) plus the range of bespoke marketing solutions on offer ... more or comment here
Majority of degrees ‘only fit for menial jobs’
The group chief executive of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment has suggested that the majority of degrees awarded today are suitable only for menial jobs such as coffee-shop baristas ... more or comment here
PM newsfeed
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed a new banner that’s just appeared in the “more news” or “related stories” column on the right. “Latest HR news” is an RSS feed, ... more or comment here
Online recruitment activity rebounds in February
Monster’s latest employment indices show UK online recruitment hitting its highest level since December 2008, with Europe also recording a strong uptick in activity ... more or comment here
AGR manifesto sets out ‘practical recommendations’ for graduate recruitment
With the general election fast approaching, the Association of Graduate Recruiters has launched its new manifesto for graduate recruitment – and the clarion call is “quality, not quantity” ... more or comment here
Exploring the changing nature of work
The Work Foundation has announced the launch of a wide-ranging investigation into the UK workplace ... more or comment here
US and UK employment outlooks diverge
A comparison of the employment outlooks for the United States and the United Kingdom shows them heading in opposite directions ... more or comment here
St Patrick, St John, and the Small Circle
The next gathering of London’s Small Circle will be on St Patrick’s Day, 17th March, starting at 18:00. The venue is The Bear in St John’s Square, Clerkenwell. ... more or comment here
Another gaudy night
Following the success of its launch night, the Small Circle Midlands is arranging “yet another night of social networking, fun and frolics, and dancing away till the wee hours” ... more or comment here
PSD opts for TCS Media
Following an extensive competitive review, leading executive and management recruitment organisation PSD has appointed TCS Media Recruitment to handle its £600,000 media planning and buying account ... more or comment here 3 comments
Lack of engagement could lead to loss of talent
A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit has suggested that low levels of employee engagement could result in the loss of key talent when the economy starts to recover ... more or comment here
Job market ‘on road to recovery’
At last, some reasonably positive news. New research has revealed that February saw the biggest monthly rise in the number of people placed into permanent jobs for two and a half years ... more or comment here
The month in HE
Ri5’s latest regular round-up of facts and figures from the graduate marketplace ... more or comment here
Tender: Kent County Council
Kent County Council wants to complement its recruitment team. The services sought fit into three categories, with additional policy support required in building strategic approaches to resourcing and helping the council to become an employer of choice. ... more or comment here
New iPhone app from Jobsite
Jobsite has launched a new, free iPhone app – ‘Jobsite Jobs’ – as part of its strategy to make job-hunting as quick and easy as possible ... more or comment here 1 comment
Vodafone chooses Pink Squid
The pink champagne corks are popping in Covent Garden, where the nascent Pink Squid is celebrating its first big win. The start-up – less than three months old - has won the pitch for Vodafone's global careers website with some highly innovative creative work. ... more or comment here 14 comments
The first Ri Fiver of 2010 goes to …
What with post-Christmas blues, the harsh weather, and gloom-laden economy, it was perhaps unsurprising that judges Martin Flavin (Five by Five People) and Matthew Sinclair (SMRS) were not swamped with entries for the January Ri Fiver. Here is their verdict: ... more or comment here 3 comments
TARGETjobs
Breakfast News: realism and clarity will pay recruiting dividends
The Avenue restaurant in St James’s played host to the latest Breakfast News session from TARGETjobs, on Thursday, 25th February. ... more or comment here
More News Stories
- The month in HE 02/03/2010
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- TARGETjobs Breakfast News: realism and clarity will pay recruiting dividends 25/02/2010
- Take no corporate prisoners 24/02/2010
- Vodafone chooses Pink Squid 26/02/2010
The qualities students of IT/computer science set the greatest store by in an employer are job security, considered ‘very important’ by 55%, and – like economics students - development and training, viewed as ‘very important’ by 51%. By contrast, almost as many IT students see a chance to work abroad as ‘unimportant’ (19%) as consider this ‘very important’ (22%).
