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Within a matter of months, recruitment has become candidate centric. With a skills shortage and high levels of employment, the candidate is now in control and has the pick of recruitment agencies. So what does this new recruitment environment mean – how can companies ensure they are in the best position to compete in the Year of the Candidate?

Penna’s Recruitment Solutions business has announced new higher education wins – celebrating new contracts with the Queen Margaret University, University of Edinburgh, Birmingham City University and Oxford Brookes University

Onrec caught up with CEO and co-founder Gareth Rifkin to speak about what their new site means for students!!

Selby Jennings, part of the Phaidon International group, has been named The Banking Recruitment Company of the Year at Recruitment International’s Asia Awards 2015. Winning this category now brings the group to a total of 44 awards, an average of 4 awards per year since Selby Jennings’ inception back in 2004

Austin Fraser, a Reading based IT, Engineering and Life Sciences recruitment consultancy, have been awarded the Investor’s in People Gold accreditation for the second time

New research has found that around half of the UK population are still not happy with their work-life balance

New figures have shown that job candidates in the UK are less money-driven and are increasingly swayed by the reputation of potential employers, which further underlines the importance of having your business included in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For List 2016

20th October 2015 | The Grange City Hotel, London

On Tuesday 29th September, My Family Care and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will be hosting a Work+Family Think Tank event where senior HRs from some of the UK’s biggest companies will be debating what being a father in today’s workplace really means

Almost two fifths of 18 to 24 year olds (39%) say they expect formal on the job training when looking for employment, despite low interest in apprenticeship opportunities, new research shows

Staffordshire employee benefits firm, Busy Bees Benefits has launched an Employee Assistance Programme to help businesses obtain a happier, healthier and more productive workforce. The brand new health and wellbeing benefit sits alongside the company’s current offerings, which include Childcare Vouchers, a mobile phone salary sacrifice service and a retail discounts portal

ONS figures published today report the number of self-employed has fallen by 51,000 in the three months leading to July compared to the same period in 2014. IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, has urged the Government to provide more support to the self-employed if it wants to continue growing a flexible and healthy economy

Following a 29 per cent upturn in professional services recruitment over the past 12 months (figure from APSCo), leading recruitment firm The Staffing Group has launched a new subsidiary to join existing arms of the business, Extra Personnel and Single Resource

Figures released today by the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA), the representative body for the employment support sector, show that the Work Programme has now supported over 731,000 previously long term unemployed jobseekers into the workplace

Lancashire based Danbro, the specialist accountancy firm for contract, freelance and temporary workers, beat off stiff competition to shine at this year’s BIBAs (Be Inspired Business Awards) to scoop the coveted title of Business of the Year - for the second time