ONLINE RECRUITMENT NEWS

March 8th 2016 marks International Women’s Day, where women around the world and from all walks of life are commended for their achievements and efforts towards equality.

When it comes to background checks of potential job candidates, there's one key question recruiters should always ask themselves before launching into the screening process – how extensive should the background check be?

Rethink Group’s talent management division has today unveiled its new corporate identity, ‘RTM’ alongside the development of a suite of new creative assets - as part of a full global rebrand.

Do you get that sinking feeling when someone (your MD? HR? A keen colleague?) suggests you ‘do some team building’? Do you have ghastly visions of yourself kneeling on the floor with a bongo between your knees, playing the drums in a conference room? Or building Lego constructions against the clock in competition with another department?

MBN are pleased to announce continued, robust and profitable growth punching through £4m of revenues for the first time in its short history.

The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has announced the winners of its annual Development Awards, which recognise and reward organisations committed to training and developing early talent.

The recent crisis in Syria is a much debated topic with everybody trying to analyse reasons why this horror is happening and its consequences. Fact and figures become dependent on our political standpoint; we only hear what we want to hear, so how do we counter balance this? With big data!

Managers in the automotive industry have overtaken those in the financial services sector to resume their reign as the highest paid managers in the UK (earning on average £46,019), according to new research by pay and benefits specialists, Croner Reward.

Salary sacrifice for pension contributions could be banned in the Budget to head off its use by higher earners to beat the introduction of flat rate tax relief, leading employee benefits consultancy Portus warns.

According to new research, "Not being told what to do," salary, flexible working and regular training and development, are just some of the things that are important to the next wave of workers now entering the workforce - the Generation Zs (also known as 'iGens' or 'post-millennials').

On the heels of launching a series of exciting new Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for recruitment, CareerBuilder announced it is further expanding its product line to cover another critical step in the hiring process.

With the highest ever rate of new restaurant openings (179!) in the capital recently recorded in the 25th edition of Harden’s London Restaurants, it’s hardly surprising that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to attract, hire and retain chefs. Couple this with a much publicised chef shortage gripping the UK, and it’s no wonder that many fear we’re heading for a ‘perfect storm’ scenario.

What is most noticeable about the type of enquiries that we are getting at the moment is that there has been a significant increase in interest around our Premium package - a candidate recruitment service which is ideal for discerning recruiters.

Doug Monro, co-founder of Adzuna comments:

The 2016 BlueSteps Job Outlook Report, just released by Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants, shows that global executive optimism has decreased 10.9 percentage points since 2014. Forty-one percent of respondents expect the number of senior management-level positions to remain sluggish as the number of professionals seeking a new opportunity continues to increase, reaching its highest point since 2010 - 90.2 percent.