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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.

jobs.ac.uk the leading global recruitment website for higher education has today announced the launch of fe.jobs.ac.uk - a new specialist job board for the further education sector.

In the era of digital transformation the HR function of most businesses is still way off putting technology at its heart - according to research undertaken on over 200 HR professionals and 2,000 employees.

2016 is going to be an amazing year for the job board industry, which will reflect the growth of the global recruiting markets and Jobg8’s The Job Board Summit is back once again to help you celebrate this growth together, share experiences, new ideas and your business ventures.

One of the UK's leading professional services recruitment agencies is set to expand again after setting up a new corporate finance arm.

Chris Futcher, CEO of Pulse Accounting, comments on the latest REC/KPMG Report on Jobs:

The Brightwork Group, the influential Scottish recruitment specialist, has strengthened its team with the appointment of senior consultants Alan Kenny and Alan Marshall.

New Year, new you, new job?

Ryecroft Glenton Corporate Finance has advised on the acquisition of growing London-based staffing business, Amanda Smith Recruitment Ltd, by Berry Recruitment Group.

BCL Legal - one of the UK’s leading legal recruitment consultancies which has offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol – is starting the New Year with a bang after being named as one of the ‘Small Best Companies to Work For’ (50 to 250 employees) in the Sunday Times lists for 2016.

As Britain went back to work this week, the expected January jobs rush has more than lived up to its billing, according to the UK’s largest job board, reed.co.uk.

In 2015, the UK experienced a significant increase in the number of people breaking away from traditional employment into freelance and self-employed roles. According to official figures from the Bank of England, between 2008 and 2015, the number of self-employed workers rose by 700,000.