Employers that cut bonuses will have to rely on their employer brand, according to recruiters.
Yesterday the BBC trust announced that it would suspend bonuses for top executives at the broadcaster.
Alison Hughes, director at HR recruiter Higher Talent, told Recruiter: “I think in this climate a lot of organisations have been introducing pay freezes.
Hospitality & Leisure Recruitment (HLR) has opened for business.
Talent management solutions provider SuccessFactors has announced positive results in a ‘terrible’ trading environment, for the quarter ending 30 June 2009.
Revenue in the second quarter was $36.9m (£22.4m) compared to $25.7m in the quarter ended 30 June 2008, an increase of 44% year-on-year, and up 5% on the first quarter of 2009.
Most British bosses would decide whether or not to hire a candidate over their dress, according to a survey by management careers site TheLadders.co.uk.
The research shows that 76% of British bosses would decide against a job candidate because of poor attire.
Tesco’s announcement that it is to create 800 new jobs in Glasgow is a welcome boost to recruitment in the city and in Scotland.
The supermarket chain says it plans to open a customer service centre for its Tesco Personal Finance business in central Glasgow.
More than 5,000 construction jobs will be created due to plans to build over 2,000 new council houses, according to housing minister John Healey.
IT recruiter Greythorn IT&T Recruitment, a division of FiveTen Group, has appointed Paul Winchester as its new managing director for its UK operation.
Flexible working was considered ‘very important’ by the 1,700 working mums surveyed in the annual survey by workingmums.co.uk, a job site for working mums.
Although significantly more women had been made redundant over the past year – up from 14% last year to 27% this year – over three quarters [79%] of the women surveyed said they needed flexible jobs.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed fines totalling £129.5m on 103 construction firms in England which it ruled had colluded with competitors on building contracts.??
The heaviest fine (£17.9m) was handed out to contractor Kier, while Interserve (£11.6m), Balfour Beatty (£5.2m), Carillion (£5.4m), John Sisk (£6.2m), Connaught (£5.6m) and Galliford Try (£8.3m) were also fined.
Retail giant Tesco has agreed a deal with Bond International Software to use its online recruitment and applicant tracking systems.
Bond Talent will be introduced at Tesco’s UK head office operations based in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where 300 external hires and 400 internal moves are expected over the next year.