The UK Job Market: Trends for Employers
Salaries, skills shortages, graduate trends, the shape of the labour market: knowing what’s going on helps you hire smarter.
This guide pulls together our read on the UK job market and what it means if you’re the one doing the hiring.
Is Your Wage Stagnating? Why Now Could be the Time To Move Roles
Looking at the news can paint an uncertain picture of our futures at the moment, but one thing is for sure, your wages aren’t moving.
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Londoners Left With Less Than £100 Disposable Income Per Month
After a CV-Library report from 2015 showed that Londoners were the poorest workers in Britain, there’s more bad news in 2016 for the capital’s workforce as this years results display the same trend. The breakdown of the results is fascinating and demonstrates the crippling financial cost of London’s opportunities for many workers.
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Money Talks: Average Salaries and Best Paying Jobs
We enjoy keeping pace with the latest developments on UK salaries and employee benefits. To this end, The Independent released data on the top 9 UK jobs that are the best paid as per The Office of National Statistics (ONS).
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Money, Money, Money: How to Decide What Salary to Pay Employees
Online recruitment agencies such as ourselves are always looking towards business practices to ascertain how and why a candidate chooses a particular job. Aside from enjoyment and flexible working which often top lists of most desirable work benefits, salary is an important part of a candidate’s choice. So how can a business decide how much to pay its employees?
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Location is Everything: UK Workers Value Location over Salary and Job Security
A surprising number of UK workers cite a good location as more important than both wages and job security, saying that working in an unattractive or boring place could directly influence their levels of productivity. This week, we take a closer look at which locations are the most desirable for UK workers and why it is so important to have the perfect view from the office.
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The Magic Numbers: ONS Releases Promising Stats About UK Employment
The Office of National Statistics has confirmed that the number of people currently in work has risen to a record high and that private sector wages have also increased, signalling the potential recovery of the economy and job market.
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What Did You Do At Work Today? The Best Jobs for High Salary and High Excitement
Some of us dream of earning big bucks as a movie star or a musician, others dream of being a best-selling novelist or highly-regarded painter. These are all well and good, but perhaps it’s time to think outside the box? Here we look at some of the most exciting jobs that are both mentally, and financially fulfilling.
Read articleQuarter of Top Jobs At Lloyds To Go To Women
Lloyds Bank becomes the first major company to set a gender quota, looking to fill forty percent of its top jobs with women by the end of the decade.
Read articleBest & Worst Jobs of 2013: The Adzuna Job Survey
We came across an article about the UK’s best and worst jobs of 2013 according to Adzuna.co.uk, which featured in Recruitment Buzz recently and we have the highlights of the survey below.
Read articleHow Often Should You Be Changing Jobs?
We came across an interesting article from The Age recently, which looked at how often employees should be thinking about changing jobs. Below, we have summarised accordingly.
Read articleDo People Need Higher Education to Succeed?
We came across an interesting article from the LinkedIn blog recently, which looked at whether Higher Education is still needed to succeed in life. Below, we have summarised accordingly.
Read articleIT Salaries Rise To Double US Average.
Working in technology in North America is looking to be a very sensible decision. By this time next year, IT workers will be earning almost twice than their non-computing compatriots. Ere points out that some will rise even higher, potentially 12 percent above the average salary.
Read articleEmployees: Would You Rather Flexibility Or A Higher Salary?
In an ever increasing business world, the lines between work and home are becoming difficult to define. Workers are now feeling the strain and a recent study showed some interesting results that reflect this
Read articleGraduate starting salaries set to rise
According to the latest research, the job market has become less volatile and starting salaries for graduates, which will average £26,500, should rise by 6 percent.
Read articleInformation Security Not Being Taken Seriously Enough By Some UK Businesses
Data security in any business is crucial for the integrity of both customer information and company reputation. In an effort to determine what protocols are being implemented and practiced by UK companies, a document destruction company commissioned an independent study administered by IPSOS MORI to determine how serious businesses are about securing confidential information.
Read articleNumber of People in Part Time Roles Reaches a Record High
The number of part time workers reached its highest level in 20 years due to their inability to find full-time employment, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
Read articleLack of Work Experience Means Graduates Facing Tough Employment Market
Despite the recovering economy and the increase in available jobs, recent graduates without work experience will find it hard to land a position in the coming year.
Read articleLack of sympathy for public sector from private sector as strikes loom
With more and more cuts occurring in the public sector, workers are beginning to appear in droves to protest. Public workers are worried that their careers are on the line.
Read articlePublic sector turnover rates lower then Private sector
While the nation’s government maintains its staff reduction policy, a new survey of employers by reveals that private companies have exceeded public organisations in turnover rate by nearly five percent.
Read article14% of graduates work over 50 hours a week
Graduate Prospects reports that graduates are struggling to get ahead in a difficult job market. Jobs are hard to come by these days.
Read article40% of work placement students not get paid according to recent survey
Close to 27 percent of companies in a recent online survey said they did not pay either wages or expenses to students and recent graduates hired by them on work experience and internship programmes. In all, close to 40 percent of work placement students do not get compensated.
Read articleThe MOD Accelerates Redundancy Plans
Following an unexpected increase in staff members applying to take redundancy packages, the Ministry of Defence will increase by 100% the number of civilian redundancies.
Read articleLongbridge Redevelopment After Rover Failure
The development at Longbridge in Birmingham, has finally been unveiled, after the ill fated Rover plant had been demolished. The new owners, Nanjing Automotive Corporation (NAC), only kept…
Read articleSurvey of workers say Tuesday is the most productive day of the week
Survey of workers say Tuesday is the most productive day of the week, and it's official, the working week ends at 2pm on a Friday. Don't forget…
Read articleHiring without the traditional agency fee
Recruitment Revolution sits between doing it yourself and paying a traditional agency 15–20%. A fixed fee, a proper service, no percentage.