Businesses are demanding to know whether to recruit and retain top talent or develop talent from within.
The unemployment rate held in July was 9.5%, with hourly wages having increased 1.8 percent over the last twelve months stated Keith Hall, the Commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Recruitment and talent management will become an increasingly [...]

The outlook is good for the contingent recruitment market in the UK, with the third quarter of 2010 set to see most contractor rates remain stable and a number rise, according to the Q3 2010 Contingent Workforce Rate Card, released today by Alexander Mann Solutions.
The study suggests that the contingent recruitment market is finding [...]

The new Con-Lib Government has confirmed plans to cut £6 billion from the public-sector budget in the next 12 months by arguing for sustainable reform rather than widespread cuts to staffing and agency budgets.
But the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s Public Sector Resourcing campaign has put the case forward for the cuts to be properly thought [...]

Comparisons between average earnings in the public and private sectors are mostly inappropriate, due to the very different workforce profiles of the two sectors. 
The term ‘counterparts’, frequently used in making comparisons between them, is not really appropriate, since the public sector is not only smaller in size, but contains a far higher proportion of professional [...]

The REC and KPMG Report on Jobs highlighted that both permanent and temporary appointments rose through February. But while the rise in permanent placements was at its highest pace since July 2007, temporary appointments rise was at its lowest in the last three month.
Additionally, the report found that vacancies rose to its highest in two [...]

The jobs market a report conducted by KPMG and the REC, revealed that many employers are cutting costs by replacing their high paid, senior employees, with staff taking lower salaries.
Mike Stevens, Partner and Head of Business Services at KPMG, said:
“We struggled to find any glimmer of hope in these figures but failed. The UK jobs [...]

Equality in the workplace has been put into question after a team researching BBC programme Inside Out West revealed that 25 out of 30 recruitment agencies agreed to a request to supply white-only candidates.
The request was made for a fake receptionist vacancy as part of an undercover investigation.
Tom Hadley, of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation [...]

A government-backed study has recently revealed nearly seven out of ten temporary workers were satisfied with their salary at the start of 2008.
The report by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (Rec) showed 68 per cent of more than 400 agency workers questioned were happy with their wages.
In addition, a third of those surveyed [...]

Despite the economic slowdown and news of large scale redundancies, many employers are still looking to recruit new staff, it has been claimed.According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), it is not surprising that unemployment numbers have increased over recent months.However, it insists there are still plenty of jobs available and the UK employment [...]

Employers can help to reduce stress among their workforce by adopting a flexible staffing approach, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has claimed.The organisation was responding to a recent report by the Trades Union Congress, which pointed to excessive workloads as a major driver of workplace stress.REC acknowledged that increased workloads – which are often [...]