Tuesday, 18th October, 2011
The recent interim report from the US Jobs and Competitiveness Council indicates that a lack of suitable skills may be adding to America’s unemployment problems.
The report has found that there are often vacancies in which the candidates are not suitably qualified for the position available.
Monday, 17th October, 2011
A recent survey by recruitment firm Adecco has found that the job market is showing signs of improving during September with the fall in the number of job vacancies beginning to slow down.
Accountancy stood out as one sector showing a growth in the number of vacancies available during September.
Friday, 14th October, 2011
Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to write to all of the FTSE 350 companies warning them that they need to do more to promote women’s career development and bring more women into the board room.
Business secretary Vince Cable and home secretary Theresa May wrote to the companies in July reminding them that they need to set out plans to double the number of women in board rooms by 2015, but the companies have not yet set out the voluntary targets. It is hoped that Mr Cameron’s intervention will prompt the top companies to do more to help women’s career development.
Friday, 7th October, 2011
The CBI has recently reported that it expects there to be a huge growth potential in creative industries such as music, film, video games and publishing.
The CBI explains that by 2013 this sector is expected to employ 1.3 million people, however it is currently being held back by a lack of relevant skills.
Thursday, 6th October, 2011
According to the Graduate Recruitment Bureau, the UK is facing a skills shortage in some subjects and graduates can use this as an opportunity to improve their employability.
Research by the CBI has found that the UK is severely lacking in certain subjects such as technology, science, maths and engineering. These are essential skills for creative industries which are expected to be the drivers of UK growth into the future.
With only around 7% of students currently studying these subjects, graduates with these skills are going to become very employable.
Thursday, 6th October, 2011
Many graduates feel that the recruitment process for graduate jobs needs to shortened and employers need to improve their feedback and communication.
With the application process sometimes taking up to 6 months with little communication, 10% of graduates turn down a job offer if they feel the recruitment process was poor. Many graduates instead, accept a job offer from another employer rather than waiting for their initial application to be processed causing the original organisation to lose out on the best graduates.
Wednesday, 5th October, 2011
The most recent Reed Job Index shows that the number of employers looking for new employees has increased by 16% in September 2011 compared to the same month last year.
The strongest increases in demand were in the engineering and manufacturing industries and service industries with the strongest growing regions being East Anglia, West Midlands, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Friday, 30th September, 2011
Research from reed.co.uk has revealed that school leavers are more optimistic about their future job prospects than new graduates with 20% of school leavers feeling they learn more at work than from a degree. Nearly two thirds of these have ‘no regrets’ about going straight into the workplace compared to only 40% of university students being happy with their choice to go to university.
Some students are more upbeat about the future though with linguistics, accountancy and computer science students being among the most enthusiastic about their employment prospects.
Thursday, 29th September, 2011
Young people are seeing on the job training as being more valuable in today’s employment climate with many considering it a viable alternative to a university education.
Wednesday, 28th September, 2011
Research by the British Retail Consortium has found that the retail sector is top in investing in staff training, spending an average of £1275 per employee each year while the manufacturing spends £1200 and the finance industry spends just £800 on each employee’s career development.
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