ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

Workopolis.com, which was the leading recruitment site in Canada until it was decimated by Indeed.ca, disclosed today that it will be sold by its two newspaper-company owners to Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd., the parent company of Indeed.

With application rates also on the rise last month

Petra Wilton, director of strategy for the Chartered Management Institute, said:

Midnight last night was the deadline for companies with 250 or more employees to submit their gender pay gap data to the government and publish it online. Commenting on the first year of what will be an annual requirement, Tom Hadley, director of policy at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation says:

ISV Software, the candidate testing specialists have added yet more content to their recruitment testing and training platform. A range of new Microsoft Office 2016 assessments covering Word and Excel are available immediately on their platform, ISV Online.

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) is pleased to announce that Sir David Metcalf, director of Labour Market Enforcement (LME) will be the keynote speaker at its network meeting, on 9th May between 15.00 and 17.30 at the CBI headquarters in London.

Following six years of growth, Manchester-based specialist recruitment consultancy MERJE has passed another milestone with the announcement of £7.05million turnover in 2017, a 36% increase from 2016.

NRL Group’s Wigan support office took to their exercise bikes in support of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.

Dorset based Recruitment agency, Bond Williams Professional Recruitment have announced the appointment of Christopher Anders to the firm’s Accounting & Finance division as Business Manager for their new Southampton branch.

Following Prime Minister Theresa May’s article published in The Telegraph today (Wednesday) about her commitment to tackle the gender pay gap, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has commented on why this is also an important issue for pension funds and savers:

A new insight guide which offers five steps to help contact centres identify, select and retain talented agents has been published by assessment specialist cut-e.

More than 100,000 people could be facing incorrect tax bills as HMRC admits it has no detailed proof to demonstrate that its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool is accurate. The admission came following a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as part of a five month investigation by contracting authority ContractorCalculator.

CABA, the charity supporting the wellbeing of chartered accountants, bolsters its personal development offering for ICAEW members and their families.

Petra Wilton, director of strategy for the Chartered Management Institute, said:

Original online job ads in Feb 2018 were up 8% year-on-year (YoY), and were 40% higher than in Feb 2016... but there was a YoY decline in Construction and Accommodation & Food Service original job ad numbers