Businesses have learned the lessons of past recessions, with the need to shed staff balanced by an increasing focus on talent management, according to recruitment and talent management consultancy Hudson.
This was the key conclusion of a survey of more than 500 HR and business leaders in more than 30 countires conducted by Hudson in March.
Recruiters have been urged to get to back to basics by Voyager Software’s sales director.
Paul Thompson says that recruiters are currently forgetting the basics – recruitment is a ‘sales and service’ business.
Recruiters in the renewables sector are worried more jobs will go after a major manufacturer announced plans to withdraw from the UK.
As commercial opportunities in the banking sector have fallen away, Luc Fountain, managing director of Liberty Resourcing, has successfully switched the focus of his firm to the buoyant online gaming market.
Companies should proceed “with extreme caution” when making workers on long-term sick leave redundant, according to employment law specialist RedundancyManager.co.uk, provided by Tollers Solicitors.
Solicitor Gary Tait says:“It’s a myth surrounding redundancy that you have to treat those on long-term sick differently to other employees.
Hays Information Technology has opened a new office in Cambridge.
The office in Hills Road was opened in reponse to strong demand from local software and web development companies for highly skilled and educated developers and will cater for IT professionals, including senior roles such as development managers.
A quarter of chief executives and senior managers in Britain’s town halls expect a headcount reduction of 15% or more by 2014, according to a new survey.
National driver recruiter, Driver Hire, is training all its drivers in techniques to reduce fuel consumption.
The company calculates that by saving up to 27% in fuel costs, a category C driver covering 80,000 miles a year could save a client £6,700 per annum.
Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group has announced that it has taken a 29.34% stake in German HR software and services vendor Personal & Informatik.
“Everything and everyone is ok.” That’s the word from three contractors working through UK IT and telecoms recruiter First Point Group in Iran, where political demonstrations and rioting in the past few days have captured the world media spotlight.