ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

Businesses that take more than 24 hours to make a decision about interviewees are increasingly losing candidates to other vacancies. A sign of buoyant times and the skills shortage mean that the ‘availability cycle’ of a potential employee has fallen to just 24 hours rather than the 2-3 weeks that businesses have been used to during the recession. This is according to monitoring of current vacancies in the Midlands and South West, by consultants at the branches of Expectations! Recruitment Services

One of the UK’s leading developers of HR and workforce management solutions, timeware (UK), has announced the launch of its new global channel partnership programme

New organisation brings together esg and Interserve Working Futures

UK construction and engineering recruiter to improve candidate search and match and efficiencies

Bullhorn expands enterprise team and brings in new international marketing manager

Thomsons Online Benefits listed fourth in national business league table

Recruitment software provider, Recruitive, has integrated its multi job posting solution, Jobmate, with recently launched job board, www.retailandfashionjobs.com

Winners of the Deloitte Micro-Tyco Student Challenge are welcomed today at the firm’s London office to start one week’s work experience. During the UK-wide competition in February, students from 37 universities* were challenged to turn £1 into as much money as possible in just four weeks. Teams were partnered with a Deloitte ‘coach’ and encouraged to use their entrepreneurial skills to grow their seed capital, with 45 students from the top 10 teams going on to win the work experience

New research from Barclays* has found that happiness in your job comes from being in the right environment. The new research, launched ahead of a Barclays debate on youth employability on 15 April – supplementing their wider commitment to helping young people increase their employability and find jobs – found the thing most likely (at 26%) to make people happy in their job was getting on well with colleagues. This was closely followed by having a good work-life balance (at 24%)

Yesterday marked recruitment consultancy Austin Fraser’s 8th anniversary since being founded by Pete Hart and Derek Simpson in 2007. By differentiating themselves, they have grown to become an established, award winning consultancy in the IT, engineering and life sciences markets

Employers are moving away from traditional recruitment methods as more firms report a growing ‘skills gap’ within their graduate workforce

Leading job site CV-Library and premier business news source, City A.M., launch co-branded partnership to simplify job search for business professionals

Whitbread PLC, owner of Premier Inn and Costa, announces today its commitment to creating more than 6,000 apprenticeships by 2020 and the launch of a brand new apprenticeship scheme for Costa, the nation's favourite coffee shop. To deliver this pledge Whitbread plans to take on around 1,200 apprentices across its Premier Inn, Costa and restaurant brands each year

KPMG, the professional services firm, announces plans for a new apprenticeship programme

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