Make your process easy to attract school leaver talent

Ensuring that online careers information for school leavers can be found and navigated as easily as information about applying to university is key to getting through to a school leaver population, which is open to but unaware of opportunities to enter the world of work.

Jobs Watch: British Gas, Centra and Domino’s on the hunt

Utilities giant British Gas, Irish retailer Centra and fast food chain Domino’s have all signalled their intent to expand their businesses through new hires.

Paperwork for transient workers biggest auto-enrolment challenge

Keeping up with the administration work for the sheer volume of transient workers who join and leave a business in a year’s time poses the greatest challenge for employers of temporary and contract labour in getting to grips with new pensions auto-enrolment legislation, predicts Derek Kelly, managing director of the Parasol umbrella company.

Pension reforms will make it more expensive to hire staff

The introduction of auto-enrolment of pensions in the UK will make it more expensive to hire staff, according to top 20 accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.

Work Programme ‘a success’, says Pertemps People Development Group MD

The managing director of welfare-to-work provider Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) has hit back at criticisms by MPs that the government’s Work Programme is failing.

Facebook: A social recruitment tool for all industries?

Despite concerns in some quarters about its suitability as a hiring tool for certain specialisms, Facebook, the world’s largest social network, should be seen as having “an opportunity for everyone” in recruitment terms.

Apple supplier Foxconn presses pause on hiring

Chinese manufacturer Foxconn, a major supplier to much of the electronics industry, most famously Apple, has put its hiring on hold.