Career Advice

Employment Policy

Here we take a look at each of the party’s views on employment related issues.
The policies are revealed in law firm Langley’s summary of policies on employment related issues (source: Recruiter magazine).
The Labour Party
The Labour Party proposes…
• harder English tests to be taken by all migrants before they arrive to work in the UK
• to increase [...]

Although the improvements aren’t huge, here are three reasons why recruitment activity looks to be increasing in the UK and beyond.
1. Revenues at one of the larger executive recruitment firms, Michael Page, were at £98m for the first quarter of this year. At an average placement fee of £12k, this equates to 8,167 people placed into roles [...]

Recruitment Update
The number of permanent staff appointments made by UK recruitment consultancies has increased in March at its strongest rate since October 1997, according to new research.
The latest report on jobs by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG also reveals an increase of permanent staff vacancies.
Amongst permanent workers, IT and computing staff were [...]

As the economic recovery continues, it seems many are using the greater degree of stability as an opportunity to move jobs.
Around two-fifths (41%) of professionals plan to change their job in the next twelve months, hoping to find roles more suited to their ability, according to the latest Employment Study from international recruiters Badenoch & [...]

Executive Recruiters Confident
As we reported recently, our survey of 1226 job seekers revealed optimism for an improving job market in the latter stages of 2010.
This ties in with what recruiters are thinking in 2010, as executive recruiters are showing renewed levels of confidence.
According to new research from the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the vast [...]