Online recruitment news

Doug Monro, co-founder of Adzuna comments:

Would you pay more for a pink product? If it looks the same, feels the same and does the same, why pay more?

A new recruitment firm has been launched which specialises in finding skilled candidates for the Information Technology sector.

Communications agency Southerly Communications and leading HR transformation consultancy Veran Performance have produced a report with onepoll into the unrealised potential of direct recruitment marketing on firms in the United Kingdom.

To celebrate 20 years in the recruitment industry WCN, the leading global e-Recruitment software provider, has created 20 top tips to help HR professionals and recruiters improve their recruitment techniques when attracting top talent. Working with some of the biggest names in the world, WCN asked it clients and employees to share their recruitment secrets and here they are:

Following the DVD release of James Bond movie ‘Spectre’ today, Indeed – the UK’s number 1 jobsite – has revealed that UK job searches for roles in the MI6 soared by 232% 10 days after the film launched in UK cinemas.

Salaries of UK surveying professionals highest in nine years, but gender pay gap for new entrants now stands at 28.7%.

Norrie Johnston Recruitment, the specialist in global executive search and interim management, has appointed Bhumika Zhaveri as a new Associate Director to develop its Talent Management offering.

Registered Master Trust and an Excepted Master Trust available.

‘The Internet of Everything’, the concept of embedding physical objects (tools, vehicles, buildings etc) with technology and connecting them to the internet, is swiftly becoming an intrinsic facet of our modern world.

Opus FS have announced the opening of a new central office in Los Angeles, California. Following the success of the New York office, Opus’ West Coast operation will be situated in Newport Beach in close proximity to several leading hedge funds and financial institutions.

New rules on tax relief for travel and subsistence could catch businesses out when they come in to force on April 6th this year. This was the message at a seminar held in Spinningfields this week.

ONS figures confirm Britain’s productivity puzzle, to which lifelong learning presents a key solution

This April, the Government launches its ‘payrolling Benefits-in-Kind (BIKs)’ scheme, which gives employers the option to stop submitting most of their employee benefit forms (P11Ds) - but is it worth signing up? John Spooner, Payroll Legislation Consultant at Moorepay, discusses whether payrolling BIKs will save businesses time or if it’s not worth the headache.

The REC is celebrating an important milestone as Rebekah Mayes becomes the 500th person to undertake a recruitment apprenticeship through the REC’s Institute of Recruitment Professionals (IRP) since the programme launched in 2013.