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Comment A useful tool for employers to confirm their need to treat employees as Serfs. If medical staff are still risking the lives of patients by not being clean then there is a simple solution - random testing - first failure = verbal warning, second...
[15 May 2008]
News Richard Holway, of Farnham Consulting, warned the lack of people to fill entry-level jobs in technology threatens employers' ability to train up the next generation of project managers on the job in the UK.
[14 May 2008]
whitepaper One of the most fundamental choices that employers make is whether to develop talent internally by promoting from within the organization or to hire talent from the outside. Large employers, in particular, have shifted their approach in recent...
[12 May 2008]
News Currently 90 per cent of the industry's workforce are based in India's top seven ITO and BPO cities but the report says this will drop to 75 per cent over the next decade as employers turn to smaller alternatives.
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper Once the user has entered the names and addresses of potential employers into the contacts list, the next step is to create a short, polite cover letter and mail this with one's resume. One can even use Outlook to keep track of which potential...
[02 May 2008]
News Transferred Shell staff will not retain their existing employment contract rights and redundancy packages under their new employers, with Shell estimating existing rights will expire after about two years.
[03 Apr 2008]
Comment Many seem to think an employee's lack of loyalty is a direct consequence of employers' autocratic attitudes to staff. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe There's been a shift in attitudes among IT workers, argues the Naked CIO.
[31 Mar 2008]
whitepaper A survey of current job descriptions indicates that Microsoft systems continue to experience strong interest among employers. Participants in the rapidly changing computer networking arena face the significant challenge of keeping up with...
[03 Mar 2008]
News The government-backed scheme offers young people a mixture of on and off the job training at employers in a variety of industries, enabling them to gain qualifications such as an NVQ while drawing a wage of at least £80 per week.
[25 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Its six consultants oversee the details of more than 2,500 job candidates, linking them with potential employers and managing interview processes. Belgium-based recruitment consultancy Cum Laude is a small, rapidly growing business.
[19 Feb 2008]
Comment Over the last 10 years, many IT employers have taken the view that IT staff can be easily replaced with cheaper alternatives. I feel that employers/agencies are trying to find candidates with specific software/application experience and passing...
[14 Feb 2008]
News The IT Professional Development Programme (IT PDP) has been developed by employers, universities and IT industry skills body e-skills UK and is designed to help new recruits to the industry rapidly build skills and experience in the early years of...
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment A good starting point would be a healthy debate about privacy in a technology-enabled world - leading to some rather tough constraints on what employers and government may do - rolling back the frontiers of some current (often carefully concealed...
[10 Jan 2008]
News Privacy advocates say the surge in cyber snooping by bosses will land an increasing number of employers in court defending breaches of the Human Rights Act. Last year a college secretary from Wales represented by human rights group Liberty won a...
[08 Jan 2008]
News TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said workers in the UK are giving away too much for free to their employers - and should think how their time could be better spent with friends and family. Brits clocked up a total of £25bn-worth of unpaid...
[04 Jan 2008]
News Brake added that the Corporate Manslaughter Act, due to come into force on 6 April, could make employers more likely to face prosecution if a member of their staff is involved in a fatal accident. Motorists who drive as part of their job are more...
[04 Jan 2008]
News But is that a fault of the teaching or are employers expecting too much from grads? There would be less of a recruitment crisis, they argued, if employers weren't so prejudiced against the over 40s. Each employee performed their duties from desks...
[17 Dec 2007]
Comment I suspect that the agencies (and hence the employers they are seeking to service) are missing out on the capable but honest people (like myself, blush) with ethics standards that bar us from applying for these jobs that we apparently are not...
[06 Dec 2007]
News Greater levels of job inertia among techies may also have implications for training since workers are more likely to acquire new skills by changing jobs, meaning employers may have to spend more on training, said ATSCo.
[27 Nov 2007]
News The details youngsters post online can be used by employers looking to find out more on potential recruits but also, more worryingly, they can be used by fraudsters. According to ICO research, just over 70 per cent of young people said they would...
[23 Nov 2007]
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