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Hays Survey Finds UK Workers Want Career Transition Support To Be Compulsory

New research from Hays, the leading recruiting expert, has found that both employers and employees in the UK are calling for career transition services, such as career guidance, CV or interview advice, to be a compulsory part of all redundancies. Almost two thirds of employers go so far as to say ...

The Post-RDR IFA Market Is Going To Look Considerably Different

The post-RDR IFA market is going to look considerably different. Will there be many of today’s IFAs here to witness the change? Transitions taking place amongst small and medium-sized IFA firms, as a result of measures demanded by the FSA’s Retail Distribution Review (RDR), are now well underway. But feedback from ...

Carers and Social Workers Recognised in Reed Carer of the Year 2010 Awards

Launched this month, the Reed Carer of the Year Awards 2010 will recognise outstanding contributions made by exceptional individuals working in Care and Social Work. Created in 2009 to recognise some of the fantastic contributions made by individuals working in these challenging areas, the Reed Carer of the Year Awards are ...

Employer Demand Drops 3% In March, As Reed Job Index Reads 102

Mixed signals for the UK economy on brink of Election call as demand for top finance and business services staff rises 4%. Demand from UK employers for new workers fell back overall in March, according to the Reed Job Index published today (Tuesday 6 April 2010). The number of new job opportunities ...

Foster Care Associates Announces UK Cycle Challenge

FCA, the UK’s largest independent fostering agency, will be stepping up its foster carer recruitment drive with a range of activities organised throughout the UK during this year's Foster Care Fortnight (17th-30th May 2010). Following the path of the FCA Cycle Challenge, which sees two members of the FCA team cycle ...

Recession Has Created Demand For Generation R Employees

Joslin Rowe has revealed that the recession has created demand among companies for a new class of employee known as Generation R, with 68% of City employers recognising Generation R as an emerging labour market force. Generation R is a term coined to describe those professionals who were retained during the ...

FCA Launch New Website Addressing The Shortage Of UK Foster Carers

Foster Care Associates (FCA), the UK's leading Independent Fostering Agency (IFA), has launched a new carer-focussed website to step up its campaign to recruit new foster carers throughout the UK. With a current shortage of up to 10,000 foster carers in the UK, FCA decided to enhance their online activity as ...

Maximise Your Chances of Landing a New Job

Winning a new role in today’s highly competitive job market requires a level of application that many part-qualified accountants may have thought was only required when preparing for their professional examinations. Here are a few simple tips from recruitment experts Reed Accountancy to help you take your next step in finding ...

What Else, Apart From Qualifications, Will Help You Climb The Career Ladder?

Having the appropriate accounting qualifications is essential as you seek to find your next accounting job, but employers take much more than proven technical aptitude into account when considering who to recruit and who to promote. And this broader approach isn’t limited to finance roles in the private sector: in the ...

HR Professionals Optimistic For 2010 After Tough 2009

Redundancies and pay freezes were commonplace in the HR profession last year, revealed the Reed Human Resources Salary Survey 2010. Although some sectors were affected more than others, overall there was a slight fall in the UK average salary for HR professionals of 3-6%. However, early indications of increased activity ...

Nearly Three Quarters of Finance Professionals Say They Will Look for A New Job In 2010

Levels of optimism are much higher than six months ago among finance professionals and their employers, according to the 2010 Reed Accountancy & Reed Finance Salary and Benefits Guide - which polled over 200,000 jobseekers and 40,000 employers in a wide range of sectors across the UK. With 59% of employers ...

Joslin Rowe Reveals Annual Scottish Financial Services Prospect Survey Results

Joslin Rowe has revealed the results of its annual survey covering employment prospects for the financial services sector in Scotland. These latest figures show that more than half (52%) of Scotland's financial service firms which responded to the labour market survey intended to increase their headcount in 2010 by up ...

Reed Personnel Services Qatar LLC Celebrates 24 Months Of Trading In The Qatar Financial Centre

Reed Personnel Services Qatar LLC is celebrating 24 months of trading in the Qatar Financial Centre and continues its "Business Seminar Programme - Mujtama" Reed have been very pleased to work with businesses in Qatar, and would like to give some further added value back, as a key part of the ...

Reed Abu Dhabi Is Selected As A UK Trade & Investment Successful Business

Reed Abu Dhabi has been selected as a UK Trade & Investment successful business and Maria Brown has been working with UK T&I to help support Foreign Trade and Investment. Maria Brown, MENA Associate Director f r o m Reed Abu Dhabi has recently been approached by the Government’s UK Trade ...

‘No Strings’ Free Training Offer for New Finance Recruits

With more than 80% of training budgets cut or frozen, Reed Finance has teamed up with one of the country's leading learning providers to offer a free training course to employers that recruit a new, qualified-level finance professional on a permanent basis. With many of Reed Learning's courses accredited by ACCA ...

Construction Sector Seeking Flexible Freelancers

Hays, the world's leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, has reported that the construction sector is seeking flexible freelancers with a first-rate career history and experience in the public sector. Ongoing investment in the public sector has generated a demand for experienced individuals to work on a range ...

Virtual Career Fair Platform For Veterans

Astound llc is proud to introduce the latest application of it's virtual career fair platforms. Milicruit.com was developed and designed for veterans and employers to meet online in a fully interactive 3D environment. "We are extremely excited to launch Milicruit.com and are happy to work with industry leading employers and the ...

Demand For HR Professionals Hits High

Joslin Rowe reports demand for HR professionals is steadily increasing with job vacancies in financial services currently at their highest levels of 2009. This shift in the market shows that employers now have the budget to recruit new employees and recognise that with expanding work loads, departments left under resourced ...

The Return of Optimism for Finance Professionals

GREEN shoots, double-dips, doom and gloom, staggering unemployment figures - we’ve seen it all in the media this year, but finally there is some hope on the horizon, with 67% of accountants expecting a return to growth by June 2010. It would be easy to assume that there is no recruitment ...

Employers On Look Out For Specialist Legal Skills

Hays, the world's leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, has revealed that whilst it is premature to talk about a recovery in the legal market, signs are emerging that recruitment activity for certain niche skill sets has remained steady. Hiring levels for transactional roles within private practice continue ...

PEO Company Introduces NPower Green Payroll Services

National PEO, a leading PEO (Professional Employer Organization) is pleased to announce the introduction of NPower, a free and environmentally friendly program that eliminates paper pay stubs in favor of online payroll access. Besides the “green” aspect of the new program, employees and employers stand to benefit in other ways, ...

New Website Launched for Young Career Women Is Named One of ‘10 Best Career Sites for Women’ by Forbes Woman

On the heels of the launch of JaneHasAJob.com, a career and lifestyle website directed towards young, driven women, Forbes Woman dubbed it a “10 Best” career website for women. JaneHasAJob.com offers a largely untapped demographic—single women just beginning their careers—job advice, relevant newsbytes, style guidance, and a community hub. “We are honored that ...

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