Online recruitment news

Skillsarena, the Chelmsford-based online talent management solutions provider has announced its partnership with US pre-employment assessment provider; The Hire Talent.

A surprising number of job ads still use gender-biased language in the quest for perfect candidates, but some industries are bucking the trend. The technology industry was amongst the least biased of all UK sectors, found new research by job search engine Adzuna.

The Office of National Statistics recently released its February UK Labour market bulletin which reported that the UK employment rate was 74.6% - the highest since records began in 1971. However, the same report also stated the there is still 1.6 million unemployed people in the UK that are seeking and available to start work. Therefore, there is still a large demand for recruiters to place candidates.

Recruitment software specialist Hireserve has donated its ATS technology to power ‘The Volunteer Pool’, a new online platform which encourages staff volunteering.

Textkernel has been developing the use of nested fields in its semantic search product. In this blog post Ruben Geerlings, Head of Architecture at Textkernel, explains how this can be used for more complex search queries and better search results.

As Britain’s EU Ambassador gives official notice of the UK’s decision to leave the EU to the European Council, under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, Samantha Hurley, Operations Director at APSCo, comments:

Responding to UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s triggering of Article 50 today, Kevin Green, chief executive at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), said:

By Jo Sellick, Managing Director, Sellick Partnership

International media group Schibsted, has appointed Nicki Dexter, former HR director of Telefonica Digital. Nicki joins as vice president of HR – Products and Technology.

The hair and beauty industry is set to give the UK’s job market a major boost by creating almost 50,000 employment opportunities in 2017.

Ahead of the enforcement of gender pay gap reporting on 6 April, Dr Sumita Ketkar, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Professional Development at Westminster Business School, believes the legislation is a positive step towards solving a problem of ‘mindsets’ when it comes to equal pay:

The Government’s crackdown on “disguised employment” has officially begun with a change which comes into effect from next week that will see tens of thousands of public sector contractors have their net take home pay slashed by as much as 20%.

The total number of UK vacancies increased by 3.5% to 1,126,376 in February, according to the latest UK Job Market Report from Adzuna.co.uk.

Maximising employee happiness has become an ever more prevalent topic in today's workforce. Many companies are placing greater focus on workplace culture “hacks”, such as flexible working hours and team building, in the hope that they will create happy and productive workers.