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New survey from Impartner shows shortage of enterprise sales professionals is putting the indirect channel in the spotlight to drive revenues in 2018

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Today’s labour market statistics published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), based on data from August-October 2017, shows that employment fell again. Commenting, Recruitment & Employment Confederation chief executive Kevin Green says:

Occumi was founded by childhood friends Joe Shepherd, 22, and Josh Clarke, 21, during their second year of university. The idea for Occumi came about when the pair were discussing how difficult it would be to stand out amongst the hundreds, if not thousands, of graduates all applying for the same job. As a result, the pair started Occumi in order to provide a simple but disruptive tool to improve student and graduate employment prospects through tailored skill identification.

With small businesses continuing to make up 99.3% of all businesses within the UK, new startups are extremely important to the British economy, but it seems that some cities are more startup friendly than others. According to research conducted by the UK’s leading freelance marketplace, PeoplePerHour (PPH), Liverpool leads the way in making entrepreneurs welcome.

Today’s workplace is alienating Generation X and could be pushing them towards self-employment in the future, according to a new report on the state of play in 2017’s careers landscape.

Today’s job market expects candidates to show, not tell, their skills at interview

Following yesterday’s publication of the Report for the Future of Work Commission - which was initiated by Tom Watson MP and assesses the impact that automation and artificial intelligence will have on UK jobs - Tania Bowers, General Counsel at the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), comments:

As well as being Europe’s leading entertainment and communications business Sky is also a role model for employee benefits and wellbeing. To aid with communication and education, Sky has held a number of benefits fairs, to which Specsavers Corporate Eyecare has been invited.

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, has today revealed the 2017 Top Voices; the coveted list of LinkedIn Influencers and members that celebrates those making the biggest impact on the platform.

Aon Employee Benefits, the UK health and benefits business of Aon plc (NYSE: AON), says that the roll-out of a new NHS initiative across zones 1-3 in London NHS Trusts has immediate impacts for employers and employees in the area, as well as longer-term impacts nationwide

Working over the festive season can be tough, but a recruitment agency, with a head office in Peterborough, is offering workers, covering the Christmas and New Year shifts, the chance to win a flight home.

The statistics show that more and more women are succeeding in the business world. However, recent studies show that women still have a long way to go to achieve parity with men.

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