From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Contractors in the UK Still in Demand

According to the figures reported by the famous Reeds Job Index—contractors are in a decent position. It is evident that demand for contractors will only continue to exist. The index is a monthly update that details figures gathered from the Reeds’ jobs board. The aggregate and formulated figure of new jobs has declined to 102 [...]

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UK Job Growth: Slowing and Slowing

It is undeniable that frequent public sector cuts have made for significant negative effects on the UK job market. This assertion was only further confirmed by recruitment data for July 2010—which claims to observe a “significant deceleration” in occupational vacancies. In their monthly report on the state of job affairs, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation [...]

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Keller Tries to Avoid Cuts by Sending Work Underground

Keller directing personnel has made offers to deploy their staff members in Australia where the group is expanding their demand for ports and similar mining projects. As of now, quite a few employees have taken advantage of this opportunity to remain employed, and even more are expected to follow. Recently, the UK business has experienced [...]

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Land a Job in London

Perhaps landing a position in London is a tad difficult for those not residing in the UK—but it is certainly possible. The finest way to go about this is to attend college and the country and then transition into an internship or even full time vacancy. You also have a much better chance to work [...]

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Job Cuts in the Construction Industry

Concerning jobs relating to the construction industry, with a slowdown in growth being experienced in the current month, contractors have reacted by cutting jobs. This is basically due to the growing intensity of fears that people have over the public sector’s spending cuts. While this growth in construction activity is the weakest it’s been in [...]

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Volunteer Centers Working with Calder UK for Work Placements to Receive Pay

Due to complaints at various job centers like that in relation to the employment agency of Calder UK, the organization has agreed to make payments to volunteer centers that set up placements for a great number of jobseekers. This is in line with the welfare to work scheme under the Flexible New Deal that the [...]

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UK Bans Job Ads

With times getting tougher and more challenging, the opportunity of finding a good and honest living also seems to be more testing. In relation to this, the UK is set to ban job advertisements for strippers, lap dancers and the like from being posted in various job centers. This plan is being put into action [...]

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UK Job Vacancies Slows Down

The dark days of economic recession seem to be at an end and the whole of UK is experiencing recovery economically. There is a deep seeded fear however in the hearts of many that this economic revival is one to be short lived. The figures on the overall growth and number of UK job vacancies [...]

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Job Creation in UK Slows Down

Part of the evidence for economic recovery in the UK is that job creation figures are running high. In the last month though, British employment growth started to slow down pegging in the weakest rate in nine whole months. Of this slowdown in growth, the sector that’s being hit very hard is the healthcare sector [...]

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UK Jobs and the Economy

The UK as well as many other countries in the world have recently experienced a strong blow to their economies which affected the stability of jobs and the availability of jobs. There is light at the end of the tunnel so to speak in that in a study done by the UK’s Recruitment and Employment [...]

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