Channel 4’s nationwide search to recruit disabled TV presenters for the 2012 Paralympics, announced last week, is a serious attempt to unearth new talent, and not aimed at filling quotas, according to the TV channel’s disability director.
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Global job board Monster has acquired HotJobs from Yahoo! for $225m (£145m) and has secured a traffic agreement.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge is aiming to build a talent pipeline of hospitality staff through the launch of a new skills academy training centre.
New high-street bank Metro Bank has created a further 100 jobs in addition to 150 jobs already created in the UK, ahead of the opening of its Cromwell Road, Earl’s Court branch today.
The world is not in imminent danger of heading back into a double-dip recession, says the centre for economics and business research (cebr) in its new global economic outlook forecasts.
Recent increases in unemployment have largely affected workers aged over 50, according to a survey by online recruitment specialist Recruitment Genius.
The survey of 1,814 applicants shows that of candidates in the ‘over 50s’ category, 55.8% reported being made redundant, more than double that for the other age groups surveyed.
Job postings on online business marketplace PeoplePerHour.com for ‘Twitter consultants’ have risen by more than 300% this year as more firms see the value of integrating social media like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube into marketing plans.
The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is calling on the government to put pressure on banks to address the lack of lending to small firms.
Proposals, submitted to the Commons committee inquiry ‘Government Assistance to Industry’ and the government’s green paper ‘Financing a Private Sector Recovery’, include:
Executive recruitment software provider Dillistone Group has seen revenues rise in its interim results for the first six months that ended on 30 June 2010.
The group’s results reveal:
Trinity Mirror today announced that it has taken control of job board and cars and home sales website Fish4.