ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

Leading temporary labour procurer, de Poel, has appointed Peter Donaldson as Commercial Sales and Business Development Manager

Qube Recruitment has appointed Dean Williams as Construction & Engineering Manager. Dean, who was previously at Berry Recruitment, has over 7 years’ experience recruiting for the Construction industry and brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise

Staffordshire based recruitment software provider, Recruitive, is looking to significantly increase its head count thanks to an increase in demand for its cloud based software technology

Sodexo, the world’s largest services company, won three categories at last night’s Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (enei) Awards including overall private sector winner

Futurestep, a Korn Ferry company (NYSE: KFY) specialising in high- impact talent solutions, today announced results of an executive survey on the use of video in the recruiting process. It shows that while video interviewing, a practice Korn Ferry was early to embrace more than 20 years ago, has become commonplace (71 percent use real-time video interviewing and 50 percent use video interviews as a way to narrow the candidate pool), many companies are using innovative video tactics to attract the best and brightest

Three in five (61%) UK workers are planning to carry on working if they haven’t saved enough by the time they hit their target retirement age, according to new research from Aegon. More than one in three (36%) plan to continue working in their current role until they have enough saved; a quarter (28%) expect their employer to create a part-time or flexible role; while one in ten (9%) expect to become self-employed

A new study conducted by leading bed manufacturer, Sealy UK, has revealed some alarming data on the impact of sleepless nights, with workers up and down the country regularly pulling sickies and falling asleep at their desks – costing the economy a potential £453m in lost productivity*

Midlands-based recruitment consultancy Macildowie is reporting a record breaking month on the back of a year of significant growth

Creating a flexible office space, that allows for greater collaboration, can help boost productivity

Cloud-based compliance SaaS solution provider NowWeComply Ltd has secured $1.2m funding from AngelLab and Boris Johnson’s London Co Investment Fund to drive growth

Key trends for recruitment and the next generation of job seekers

BCL Legal - one of the UK’s leading legal recruitment consultancies which has offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol – has made two new appointments to its team of consultants

Thomas Cook has achieved an outstanding grade in all areas, in a recent Ofsted inspection of its UK Retail Apprenticeship Programme. This unprecedented result in travel puts the company at the forefront of UK businesses who have been recognised for exceptionally successful Apprenticeship Programmes

Graduate recruitment is big business with three out of four universities taking advantage of Clearing in 2014. A new study by Crunch Simply Digital explains how universities can increase their online influence attracting those students who haven’t met the desired grades

Leading Recruiting Platform Provider Helps Recognize Outstanding Candidate Experience Practices for Second Consecutive Year