Almost three out of five (57%) employers say they have reduced their use of temporary agency workers as a result of the Agency Workers Regulations (AWR), according to a new survey. 
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Lord Browne, the former chief executive of oil giant BP, has urged businesses to end discrimination on the grounds of sexuality, saying that “merit must never be sacrificed” in business and personnel decisions.
Outsourcing firm MITIE Group has awarded £300k of investment capital to ProFinda, an online talent matching website that uses the technology behind dating websites.
Just 11% of business services firm were implementing a recruitment freeze in Q1 2012, down from 17% in the last quarter of 2011.
A new Channel 4 series is to be shown this October and aims to give unemployed people the opportunity to gain experience working with high-profile experts in a new hotel.
Business-to-business trade exchange Bartercard is looking to soft skills first in its new recruits as it creates 400 field sales and business development roles nationwide.
Just 19% of graduates thought about their career before starting their university course, reveals graduate job board Milkround’s ‘Student and Graduate Career Confidence Report’, a study of 1,730 students.
Parity, a UK IT group offering recruitment among its services, has acquired Shoreditch, London-based 3D technology business Inition.
International online advertising company Criteo is hoping that a computer coding competition will help it recruit the best IT talent from across the EU.
The balance of retailers who were recruiting more staff in May was the strongest (+12%) in any month since February 2003, reveals the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI’s) ‘Distributive Trades Survey’, conducted across the first two weeks of May.