London 2012 Olympic Games launches recruitment drive for up to 70,000 volunteer games makers

Yesterday marked exactly two years until the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the opening of the London 2012 Volunteer Programme, seeking to recruit up to 70,000 volunteers or...

The market for HR interim managers remains buoyant as their pay soars

The demand for HR interim managers is increasing and their daily rate of pay has jumped by 11% from 547 in December to 614 in June.

140 new jobs across the country at Travelodge's newly-acquired Innkeeper's Lodges

Travelodge is to recruit 140 staff across the country following its recent acquisition of 52 Innkeeper's Lodges.

A recruitment process outsourcing relationship is only as good as the contract on which it is based

We are currently experiencing a long-term, world-wide boom in recruitment process outsourcing (RPO). In simple terms, RPO refers to a company outsourcing its recruitment process to an external service...

REC urges Government to support and mentor budding entrepreneurs to become tomorrow's employers

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has called on the Government to support the budding entrepreneurs of the future in a bid to create jobs.

Half of all jobseekers have been unemployed for more than six months

The jobseekers of today are overqualified and undervalued by employers, new research shows.

Voluntary redundancies could be an unsatisfactory way of making public-sector savings

Local government currently finds itself in a difficult quandary. On the one hand, it's being pressurised to cut costs to help reduce the current public deficit, which will invariably result in job...

The more friends jobseekers have in employment, the more likely they are to get a job themselves

Research from Edinburgh Napier University's Employment Research Institute has proved the age-old theory that it is 'who you know' that is important for job hunters.

Training of offenders to be reviewed to make them more employable on release from prison

The Government has announced a review of training for prison inmates, to help them find work and reduce the chances of them re-offending

Waitrose's graduate programme online sifting tool aims to eliminate unsuitable candidates at an early stage

Waitrose has reduced the time taken to assess graduate applications thanks to an online sifting tool.

There will be more vacancies than suitable candidates in London in the third quarter 2010

London will officially experience a shortage of job candidates in the third quarter of this year, new research reveals.

Reasons for optimism in a tough graduate recruitment situation

A report released last week by the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) appeared to pour cold water on optimism that the graduate recruitment market is recovering. The cut in public- sector...