One of the UK’s leading executive search firms, Warren Partners, is bucking the industry trend and gearing up for significant expansion across all sectors, including its recruitment to board level roles.
The growth strategy will be led by founder Joëlle Warren, who takes up the role of executive chairman.
She will be supported by an [...]

Sites such as Twitter and Facebook may offer a significant benefit to UK companies, it has been suggested.
According to Tristan Garrick, PR manager at the Direct Marketing Association, social media networks are important to businesses as they allow firms to engage with consumers.
In addition, a recent survey by Clearswift suggested that over 90 per cent [...]

Stonewall, the organisation geared towards promotion of equal rights for gay and lesbian and bisexual groups, has launched Gay By Degree – the first ever guide which shows how gay-friendly every university in the UK is – www.gaybydegree.org.uk
The online guide is aimed at lesbian, gay and bisexual 16 and 17 year olds who are choosing [...]

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Management qualifications now within easy reach of long arm of the law
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has become the first awarding body in the UK to be accredited by Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator) for its police management qualifications programme.
The formal accreditation means that CMI is now a nationally recognised provider of [...]

Pregnant women in the armed forces will be given greater protection from discrimination after a ruling by the Employment Tribunal.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission funded the case brought by a female officer against the Royal Air Force in which she claimed she was removed from her job and had her promotion prospects delayed because [...]

It has been revealed that council workers in England and Wales took an average of more than two days off work in 2009 as a result of of stress, costing local authorities more than £500m.
Local Government Association (LGA) published statistics showed council employees took almost five million days off in total for mental health problems [...]

According to The IT Job Board’s latest survey[1] findings, 62% of IT workers would keep details about a job they are applying for secret from their colleagues to avoid competition for a role.  In addition, almost eight out of ten people (79%) would try to gain inside secrets about an organisation and its recruitment process to [...]

Women in the UK are still struggling to be seen as valuable in the workplace, according to one expert.
Toni Eastwood, training director at everywoman, indicated that female candidates and employees are having to “work extra hard” to secure senior roles with British companies.
She noted that in most cases, women looking for top jobs or promotions [...]

The latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey of almost 800 employers signals that the UK’s emergence out of recession is now leading to better job prospects. Yet it also reveals a stark difference between job prospects in the private and public sectors: while private sector employers are more optimistic about creating jobs in the [...]