Recruitment website Remote Employment and BT Business are looking for the most innovative business that demonstrates how remote working and home working has made a beneficial impact on their business and home life for The BT Home Business Award.
UK Businesses that can demonstrate how work life has benefited from running a home office could win one of the £50k prizes.
The former chief executive of Ipsos MORI in the UK, Mike Everett, is to become global HR director for the Ipsos Group and join the Global Management Board.
Everett, who joined MORI in 1996, will be based in London when he takes up his post in July. He was a key figure in two management buy-outs of the MORI business. Before joining MORI, Everett worked for a management consultancy.
Energy sector recruiter Acre Resources found over 68% of climate change workers identifying themselves as feeling as or more secure now compared to 12 months ago.
Andrew Cartland, managing director of Acre Resources, told Recruiter its clients had started to use more contractors: “The green market has historically been one of permanent job placements.
Monster has launched its Career Ad Network (CAN) in the UK. CAN targets candidates across the internet by analysing users’ online information to assess their job experience and interests.
Construction could be about to emerge from the recession, according to specialist market intelligence firm Glenigan.
Positive indicators include:
- a rise in the number of construction projects going to tender from an average of 30 in February to 38 a day in May
- planning applications in May were 32% above the low point reached in February
Industrial staffing firm Extrastaff has had its licence revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).
Extrastaff had appealed the decision and was allowed to continue to trade until a new licence application was considered.
The firm failed in their bid to get the licence reinstated and their licence was revoked on 18 May.
Meridian Health, division of Meridian Business Support, has won a place on NHS PASA’s (Purchasing & Supply Agency’s) Framework for the Supply of Commercial Resources.
Meridian Health will be charged with the supply of interim managers and senior level professionals.
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Tony Martin
Philip Wedderburn (pictured on the left) is learning signalling at SkyBlue’s purposebuilt track at Duddeston Rail Branch facility near Birmingham.
Stability has returned to recruitment in the London financial markets, but there are no green shoots, according to the chief executive of Michael Page.