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Kathryn Dooks, Employment Partner at Kemp Little said:

Campaign highlights stories of doctors, lawyers and professionals who have given it all up to pursue dream careers in the seafood industry.

New desktop and mobile job search tightly integrates company reviews and salaries, making it easier to browse open jobs and research companies at once -- all from a single window

A third of all Brits consider new job as New Year’s resolution, principally driven by search for higher wages and career progression

Recruitment software provider, Recruitive, has announced a new partnership with HR product and service provider, CIPHR.

Otley-based recruiters Blue Octopus got the New Year off to a great start, with the arrival of five new Client Delivery Managers!

APAC Employment Monitor Q4 2015 Highlights:

Despite boards consistently ranking human capital as a top priority, two thirds of HR professionals believe the chief HR leader is undervalued by the CEO, and almost half believe the HR leader is considered less important to the board than the top financial leader such as the CFO. This is according to the sixth annual Harvey Nash Human Resources Survey, representing the views of 1,253 HR leaders from over thirty countries.

Following the ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that companies can monitor workers' private online chats, Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, comments:

Tom Castley, VP of Xactly EMEA:

Commenting on the government’s official response to the ‘Tackling exploitation in the labour market’ consultation, published this morning, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s Director of Policy, Tom Hadley says:

The event includes national employee engagement trends plus the launch of the Best Employers Eastern Region 2016 employee survey, which helps business leaders to gauge employee opinion for increased strategic decision-making.

With more than 430,000 live available job listings and the facility for candidates to create optimised online resumes in seconds, LoveMondays is rapidly becoming a recruitment website to watch.

A third (34%) of employees would prefer a more flexible approach to working hours than a 3% pay rise.

Employee referrals, counter-offers and downgraded expectations will be top of the UK recruitment trends for 2016, while our international counterparts will be focussing on the quality and speed of hire and their employer branding. That’s according to UK recruiter Expectations! Recruitment Services who predict that UK employers will have to radically change the way they hire talent in 2016, and will also have to invest more in specialist recruitment to ensure they remain fully staffed and able to grow.