he UK manufacturing sector is likely to turn to temporary recruitment due to poor visibility on how the sector is likely to fare, according to Chris Williamson, director and chief economist at Markit. The latest data from Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)/Markit shows UK industrial production was down 1.5% in the last quarter [...]
Looking for a job – or trying to find a new employee? Then prepare for a technological revolution. New tools, many of them related to the explosion in use of social media, are transforming the recruitment world. Until recently, the process of seeking a job followed a familiar routine – scan the newspaper recruitment pages, [...]
More than one in 10 senior executives at UK firms are planning to add permanent, professional-level staff in H2 2011, according to Robert Half’s latest Professional Hiring Index. The Index also reveals four in 10 executives say that they are ‘more confident’ about the prospects facing their companies in the second half of 2011, than they [...]
The UK’s largest engineering and manufacturing company is seeing an increase in the number of young people who could successfully qualify for university places turning instead to apprenticeships. Richard Hamer, BAE Systems’ director for early careers and graduate recruitment, said impending university tuition fee hikes to £3,000 per year, which he described as “a huge [...]
Precision Recruitment, based in Leicester city centre who specialise in engineering, technical and sales recruitment have just re-branded their sales division to Yes! Sales Recruitment, check out the website here at Yes Sales Recruitment. Read about the launch in the Leicester Mercury, The Recruiter and Recruitment International Magazine.
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a $1bn order from Singapore Airlines to supply Trent 700 engines to power 15 Airbus A330 aircraft, along with TotalCare® services support. The Trent 700 is the most fuel efficient, cleanest and quietest engine on the A330. Since it entered service in 1995, Rolls-Royce has continued to [...]
Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce into businesses in the county found trade has risen and jobs were safer.
