Poke, Like & Chat With Top Brass Civil Servants
Sir Bob had the following to say in a post from the Guardian: On 8 May, between 1pm and 2pm, I will host a live webchat on Facebook about the civil service graduate recruitment scheme. This will be an...
View ArticleUnemployment rates likely to increase – KPMG & REC
“Unemployment rates are likely to continue to rise in the short term. “The question now is whether we start to push the three million mark.” - According to Bernard Brown of KPMG. Data from over 400...
View ArticleIndustry News: 400 New Sainsbury’s Jobs In North East
Around 400 new jobs will be generated in the North East region over the next few years. The expansion of Sainsbury’s presence in the North East will create new jobs with three new stores and one store...
View ArticleSickness Days Down In 2011
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 131 million days were lost due to sickness absences in the UK in 2011, down from 178 million days in 1993. In 2011, around 131 million days...
View ArticleBaroness Kingsmill urges recruiters to distinguish their service
Baroness Kingsmill, in a speech given yesterday at the Association of Professional Staffing Companies’ annual member awards lunch, claimed that the recruitment industry has “not done a great job of...
View ArticleIt’s Like King Kong v Godzilla – Dixons and Comet Fight to the Death
Opportunistic? Yes. Shrewd? Certainly. Ethical? Is that a valid question in the cut and thrust battle for our precious disposable income on the High Street? Are not all gloves off when it comes to...
View ArticleSo Costa gets 1,701 applications for eight jobs. How about Hunt4Staff with...
Being the new guy in the Hunt4Staff office I am getting familiar with the world of online flat-fee recruitment and a brand new series of log-ons, software and daily tasks. It seems greatest priority...
View ArticleAre there any winners when 6,000 people apply for two jobs?
Last week’s news regarding the Costa branch receiving 1,700 applications for eight jobs and our subsequent blog telling of the 5,877 we’ve had applying for just two roles, asks several questions of the...
View ArticleWhat are the prospects for fresh employment from today’s Budget?
Leaving the wider economic and personal aspects of today’s Budget to other commentators here at Hunt4Staff we are naturally concerned with the Chancellor’s announcements affecting jobs and the...
View ArticleBMW announces an that it will ‘give something back’ with training programmes...
Today’s Guardian reports that German car giant BMW has announced a year-long pilot training programme for young unemployed people from Spain. Twenty-five workers aged 18 to 25 will be trained for a...
View ArticleNew figures show increases in temp and perm recruitment across almost all...
The Recruiter today reports data that reveals an increase in demand for permanent staff and contract employees in eight of the nine sectors of the REC/KPMG Report on Jobs for May. Produced by the...
View ArticleJohn Lewis Pledges to Increase its Share of UK Manufactured Products
Andy Street, the managing director of the UK’s favourite department store chain, the John Lewis Partnership, has pledged to increase the company’s share of UK-produced products. Having already...
View ArticleNick Clegg Promises to Look at Zero Hours Contracts
Following this week’s widely reported stories that Sports Direct ‘employs’ 20,000 staff on zero hours contracts, and the news that Buckingham Palace, Cineworld and the Tate Gallery also have a number...
View ArticleHigh Street Recruitment Agencies in Decline
Not quite gripping enough a story for the mainstream media nor silly enough to be an April Fool, but this piece in the Recruiter certainly caught our eyes this morning. We are used to seeing and...
View ArticleJason Perry Contributes to BBC Sussex Help to Work Debate
The Government’s Help to Work scheme will see the long term unemployed lose their benefits if they refuse to undertake voluntary work, training or fail to agree to visiting their local job centre...
View ArticleWhere are your candidates looking and how are they applying?
Last Thursday we tuned in to an informative and enjoyable Webinar entitled Succeeding with Search hosted by DeeDee Doke, Editor of Recruiter Magazine, who posed the question; “If you asked every...
View ArticleDan Price’s Extraordinary Wages Policy
“We’re completely transparent. We gladly choose long-term relationships over profit… The most compelling reason businesses switch to us is our team of dedicated, local, customer service members… When...
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