The Royal Bank of Scotland has published it is to shed a further 3,500 jobs in the UK, in the latest efficiency drive at the part-nationalised back.
The posts will be lost at its business services arm following the breakup of 12 sites that deal with IT and card processing. Jobs earmarked for the axe contain [...]

Kelly Services, the global recruitment agency, has appointed Sally Cleary as head of business development for the UK and Ireland.
She will be responsible for expanding both permanent and temporary sides of the company’s activities – including its science, engineering, IT and education specialist sectors.
Sally Cleary has both a corporate and entrepreneurial background, starting as an [...]

Almost one in three young professionals do not trust their employer, according to the latest research from recruitment consultants Badenoch & Clark.
When asked whether they trust their employer to deliver accurate information on business performance, 32.2 per cent of 16 – 24 yr olds revealed that they refuse to believe either ‘most’ or ‘any’ of [...]

Students receiving their GCSE results today need support to explore the options open to them and to equip themselves with the skills and abilities that employers now demand.
In the current economic climate, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the representative body for the UK’s private recruitment industry, says the main priority for students either going [...]

Hays, the leading recruiting expert, has been awarded an important public sector contract win with Buying Solutions. Hays is one of five One Stop Shop suppliers responsible for the recruitment of all non-permanent staff up to board level and directors and won the contract due to its ability to deliver all staff types across the [...]

Bright, the UK’s first intelligent careers network, is hosting a select evening giving graduates and students the opportunity to meet leading companies in the marketing, retail and FMCG sectors. Recruiters and young employees from Innocent, WPP, John Lewis and Mars will speak about their job roles, the industry itself and the skills and attributes needed [...]

An expert has insisted that youngsters looking to go straight into work after receiving their GCSE results have a wide range of choices available to them, despite worries over the strength of the economy.
People First chief executive Brian Wisdom advised students awaiting the outcome of this summer’s exams to consider a career away from further [...]

Students that have been disappointed by not achieving a place at university have been directed towards apprenticeships. However the TUC (Trades Union Congress) has predicted that students will feel let down by the availability of on-the-job training that employees are providing.
TUC apprenticeships policy and campaign officer Scarlet Harris believes that there are businesses out [...]

Thousands of school-leavers today received their A level results and, to assist them, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has issued practical tips for the next generation of workers plus they have called on Government and business community to do more to build bridges into the world of work.
The REC’s latest JobsOutlook survey shows that [...]

Britain's coalition government and the energy industry should both be more "proactive" to increase the number of young people working in the sector, according to an expert.
Zoe Robinson, ethical development manager at Warren Evans, suggested the Conservative-Liberal Democrat alliance can play a crucial role in meeting the needs of young job hunters, but urged companies [...]