Recruiters wanting an effective gateway to Europe where nearly 90% of the population speaks English should consider opening up a subsidiary or a branch in the Netherlands, UK recruiters heard last week at a seminar in London.
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The average UK worker spends more than seven working weeks a year (37 days a year) carrying out basic administrative tasks, such as updating reports, inputting data, filing expenses, bookkeeping, timesheets, and invoicing and billing, according to cloud service provider Keboko.
Keboko estimates that this costs British businesses more than £104bn a year.
International recruitment giant Randstad has achieved ‘stable’ double-digit growth, according to its Q3 results.
The results reveal:
Creative recruiter Major Players has seen the number of PR jobs double since the last quarter of 2009.
Its data reveals that compared to Q4 2009, the first quarter of 2010 has seen a rise of 210% in the number of job briefs, while current job briefs for April are already at 96% compared to March 2010.
US workers’ projected retirement age has risen over the past 15 years, with more than a third of people today saying they will retire after age 65, compared with 12% in 1995, according to a poll from Gallup.
The research marks the first time Gallup has recorded more people saying they will retire after age 65 than before that age.
RPOs should focus more of their efforts on selection and assessment of candidates, according to the managing director of Outstanding Outsourced Recruitment Organisation award winner Omni RMS.
A Lincolnshire district council is putting its creativity to work to match job candidates and skills with jobs through the government’s Future Jobs Fund Scheme.
Software provider SuccessFactors has reported increased revenues in its results for the first quarter of the year.
The firm’s results reveal:
US employees’ perceptions of the jobs market have improved to their best levels since November 2008, according to Gallup’s Job Creation Index for April.
The index, based on 16,171 U.S. employees’ self-reports of hiring and firing activity at their workplaces, reveals that employees’ perceptions improved to +5, up 3 points from March, and 10 points better than a year ago.
Australian software provider Intelligent HR Recruiter has launched its eponymous flagship software product.
The employee mapping solution provides both present and potential employee background information, giving organisations the power to control its risk, its IP, so that there are no ‘anomalies’ between who they have actually recruited and who employees claim they are.