Job market Archives

Employees want to reskill and retrain to widen their job search

Aug 18, 2020 | 0 |

32 per cent feel they cannot find a job in their current sector.

Advertised salaries reach standstill as optimism in job market stutters

May 3, 2016 | 0 |

Advertised salaries reached a standstill in March, as a slowdown in the jobs market takes hold according to the latest UK Job Market Report from Adzuna.co.uk.

As hirers compete for talent, recruiters struggle to meet public sector demand

Nov 18, 2015 | 0 |

Ninety-two per cent of businesses have limited capacity to take on more work and employers are competing to attract and retain the people they need, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

Ben Lambert of BPP University talks about the rise of the degree apprenticeship

Nov 13, 2015 | 0 |

With apprenticeship schemes becoming increasingly popular the government has given a great deal of thought to how apprenticeships have worked in the past and the reasons why some schemes have failed.

Children of immigrants experience poorer job prospects

Jul 2, 2015 | 0 |

Children of immigrants are more likely to be discriminated against and work in low-paid jobs. Even highly-skilled immigrants often work in jobs which require lower levels of education.

Tech salaries rising in response to skills shortage

May 4, 2015 | 0 |

IT recruitment specialist Experis has published a report on the state of the UK IT jobs market in...

Employees more confident about finding a new job

Apr 17, 2015 | 0 |

Employees are more confident about finding a new job within the next six months. The highest confidence sits with 25-34 year olds and is lower among those aged 55 and above.

Steve Thompson: Can a # hinder your career?

Mar 26, 2015 | 0 |

The best and worst posts you can find on a candidate’s social media You’ve ploughed through...

Amy Edwards: How to make your job vacancies appeal to Generation Y

May 28, 2014 | 1 |

Also known as ‘Millenials’ or the ‘Millenial Generation’, Generation Y tends to refer to anyone...

How to survive ´redundancy season´ in the City

Dec 20, 2013 | 0 |

Deutsche Bank’s announcement earlier this month that it was scaling back its commodities division...

McCririck backs a loser

Nov 19, 2013 | 1 |

Racing pundit John McCririck backed a loser when he took on the broadcaster Channel 4 which...

Callum Murray: Behind the scenes of industrial disputes

Nov 19, 2013 | 0 |

‘Rationalisation’, ‘restructuring’ and ‘sustainability’ are three key terms referred to within...

Job confidence on the up but mainly in London

Nov 18, 2013 | 0 |

The second quarterly National Careers Service Job Confidence Index shows that the overall national...

Unite the Union fighting to save jobs at BAE and Pilkington Glass

Nov 8, 2013 | 1 |

BAE announce 1775 job losses at Portsmouth and Govan shipyards Unite, the country’s largest union,...

Advertised UK job vacancies rise 3.3%

Oct 28, 2013 | 0 |

Just 1.9 jobseekers per vacancy in September, down from 2.3 in September 2012 Total number of advertised UK job vacancies rises 3.3% year-on-year in September to 710,859, the highest in two years Findings give...