Employment

Campaign aims to boost young people’s employability

The CIPD has launched a new ‘Learning to Work’ campaign designed to “generate a step-change in employers’ engagement with young people” and thus help boost the latter’s employability and job prospects ... more or comment here

Positive signs amid the gloom

We may be back in recession with the Eurozone crisis threatening to blow up once again, but in spite of all this it’s not all doom and gloom in terms of the UK jobs market ... more or comment here

Conference to focus on overcoming skill shortages

With almost three-quarters of organisations still experiencing recruitment challenges despite widespread unemployment, this year’s CIPD Recruitment and Resourcing Conference will aim to tackle the issue of how employers can overcome shortages of skilled workers ... more or comment here

City firms unprepared for Olympics impact

A recent London-wide ‘stress test’ of City firms found that, just 80 days before the Olympic Games were due to get under way, a third had made no contingency plans for the event – a situation that could potentially cost the economy billions of pounds ... more or comment here

Totaljobs launches new learning zone

Totaljobs.com has launched a new service designed to provide job-seekers with access to training and development opportunities and thus help them boost their employability ... more or comment here

Milkround most widely-used graduate recruitment site

According to The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012 (produced by High Fliers Research), Milkround has retained its position as the most widely-used graduate recruitment website on campus for the fifth year running ... more or comment here

Undergraduate job applications at record levels

Applications to employers from final-year students due to leave the UK’s leading universities this summer have reached record levels, according to The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2012 ... more or comment here

The changing face of student recruitment

Over the past year or so, the UK’s major accounting and professional services firms have all introduced innovative programmes targeting A-level leavers and apprentices as alternatives to traditional graduate recruitment. Following her recent triumph at the 2012 TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards, Ri5 caught up with Alison Heron, KPMG’s head of student recruitment, to find out more about the brave new world of entry-level recruitment ... more or comment here

New joint offering from TheGraduate and CVSeeMe

TMDR specialist jobsite TheGraduate has joined forces with video-enabled graduate site CVSeeMe to create a new graduate recruitment offering ... more or comment here

Start-up winner is no mystery

Bath-based start-up Mystery Applicant, which markets an online tool designed to measure candidate experience, has won ERE’s first-ever competition for start-ups at the Recruiting Innovation Summit in San Francisco ... more or comment here

Peter Cheese is new CIPD chief executive

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has announced the appointment of Peter Cheese as its new chief executive. ... more or comment here 44 comments

Jobs: short-term outlook more positive

For the first time in a year, the immediate outlook for jobs has turned positive – largely as a result of lower redundancy intentions, according to the CIPD’s latest quarterly Labour Market Outlook – although employers remain cautious about the medium term ... more or comment here

Encouraging talent to move – and stick

The morning of Monday 14th May saw the first of TMP Worldwide’s ‘Can’t Move, Won’t Move’ seminars take place at the agency’s 265TCR headquarters, with presentations from chief executive Andrew Wilkinson, business director Breda Power and Ghost Partnership director Alan Crozier ... more or comment here

Special Ri5 discount for Onrec’s ‘Gravity’ conference

Ri5 has arranged a special discount for users intending to attend Onrec’s Gravity Recruiting Conference next month ... more or comment here

Recruitment Society – forthcoming events

News of the latest Midlands region event – focusing on apprenticeships – plus early notification of the Society’s summer reception in London ... more or comment here

Stress drives jump in long-term sickness absence

Long-term sickness absence caused by stress has jumped over the past year as workers increasingly fear for their jobs amid the uncertain outlook, new figures show. ... more or comment here

Sharp fall in advertised vacancies

The number of vacancies advertised in the first quarter of 2012 fell by 27%, according to the latest Evenbase (previously Jobsite) quarterly recruitment review ... more or comment here

RBI reveals strong traffic growth at Spring Update

At their recent quarterly ‘Spring Update’ event for recruitment ad agency personnel, held at The Brewery, London on the evening of Thursday 3rd May, RBI Recruitment Media unveiled the latest traffic and application figures for their ten industry-specific jobsites, reflecting an impressive start to 2012 ... more or comment here

International ambitions prompt interest in overseas studies

According to a recent survey of school-leavers and undergraduates by Graduate Prospects, the idea of studying abroad is becoming increasingly popular, with a quarter of respondents keen to build an international career ... more or comment here

Positive start for new entrant to graduate market

Launched earlier this year by the Jobs4 Network, new graduate and student recruitment site Grads.co.uk reports an encouraging take-up from employers plus positive feedback from its target audience ... more or comment here 1 comment

Online: April sees UK dip and European rise

The latest statistics from Monster’s UK and European employment indices point to a fall in UK job-posting activity in April, but a third successive monthly increase in Europe ... more or comment here

Recruiter Awards – all the results

A packed Grosvenor house was the glitzy setting for the 2012 Recruiter Awards for Excellence – the first to be held since the Recruiter brand returned to the Redactive fold ... more or comment here

Early recognition for new start-up

Bath-based start-up Mystery Applicant, which markets an online tool designed to measure candidate experience, is the only European business to have been nominated as a finalist (one of just six) for the ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit start-up competition in San Francisco next month. ... more or comment here

UK unemployment rate could 'trigger social unrest'

Britain's high long-term unemployment rate could trigger widespread social unrest as people become increasingly detached from the labour market, a grim analysis has warned. By Telegraph Jobs’ editor, Louisa Peacock. ... more or comment here